Why do gay people have lisps

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In fact, some readers of this site have reported hearing the tale from their Spanish instructors. It's a great story, but it's just that: a story. More precisely, it's an urban legend, one of those stories that is repeated so often that people come to believe it. Like many other legends, it has enough truth—some Spaniards indeed do speak with something that the uninformed might call a lisp—to be believed, provided one doesn't examine the story too closely. In this case, looking at the story more closely would make one wonder why Spaniards don't also pronounce the letter s with a so-called lisp. One of the basic differences in pronunciation between most of Spain and most of Latin America is that the z is pronounced something like the English "s" in the West but like the unvoiced "th" of "thin" in Europe.

I notice so many gay men speak in an effiminate tone of voice and lisp alot. I know guys who "turned out to be gay" and they all have the lisp now. Funny thing is that when we were all kids, none of them spoke this way

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