Why Do Gay Men Sound Gay?

If they did a hillbilly voiceover of an American politician, would anybody notice the difference?

When you join the gay community you have the option of signing up for GSL (Gay as a Second Language) classes.

A lesbian friend of mine had a gay hairdresser. (She kept her hair boyishly short in summer and I don't like short hair on women but she was cuter than two buttons.) I pictured her hairdresser as slim, well-groomed, well-dressed, etc.Unfortunately, my friend died and at the funeral I met the hairdresser. He was fat and bald and wearing a brown suit. He looked more like my grandfather than a gay hairdresser.

I wonder if it's possible to type gay on the Internet?

I don't think that's true. It's a subtle form of non-verbal communication, body language, etc. How do you tell whether or not somebody is attracted to you? You're getting "signals" (which some people are better than others at detecting and decoding). Gay people in particular have an incentive to hone those skills.

That has to be the biggest exaggeration I've ever seen.

For that to be the biggest strawman you've ever seen, you'd have to define "close" as "two universes over".