David Thorpe asserts that the inflection in people’s voices is semiotics, a composition of many things, but two in particular: where they grew up and what that place sounds like, as well as who raised them and what they sound like.

| Sep 1, 2023

What 'Do I Sound Gay?' lacks in suspense, it makes up for in heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2021

Do I Sound Gay? is a film that asks universal questions as a means to explore Thorpe's very personal struggle.

| Jan 14, 2021

The film leaves plenty of space for humor, between the musings of Thorpe's own friends in New York, and of course, a collection of interviews with the likes of Margaret Cho, George Takei, Dan Savage, and David Sedaris.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 15, 2019

An interesting and earnest first glimpse at an intriguing question; hopefully it will inspire others to take up the mantle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 14, 2019

Thorpe would really have benefited from expanding his lines of enquiry further, and drawing the focus more thoroughly away from himself... As such he turns "Do I Sound Gay?" into a vanity project.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2019

The tone is light and hopeful throughout, while allowing for the possibility of more searching investigation on the viewer's part.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2015

A cheerful, highly personal investigation into queer cultural identity ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2015

The breezy and humorous tone doesn't disguise the fact that Thorpe's film is both intimate and quietly courageous.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2015

A peppy but profound documentary exploration of self-projection and self-image.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2015

Do I Sound Gay? humorously tackles the thus-far unaired and touchy question of whether certain intonations and speech patterns mark out some gay men the second they say hello.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2015

American writer-director David Thorpe turns the camera - or more importantly the microphone - on himself to create this engaging, lively documentary about gay identity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2015

The basic question in his movie's title is easily answered, the more complex underlying questions necessarily harder. And this is nothing if not a conversation starter.

| Aug 21, 2015

[G]ay male audiences especially may find a lot to take from this entertaining documentary. That's if they can get over their fears to watch it in the first place.

| Original Score: B | Aug 20, 2015

"Do I Sound Gay?" isn't profound, but Thorpe's investigation into self-esteem and public personas touches on a few universal truths about identity.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 12, 2015

Very personal docu explores gay stereotypes, self discovery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2015

It's an interesting film, consistently entertaining, a mile wide and an inch deep.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2015

As with many such informal documentaries on social issues, the results are hit-or-miss, though Thorpe's conversational tone is ingratiating.

| Jul 30, 2015

There's nothing here that makes it a must-see. And gay or straight, you can't like the sound of that.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 26, 2015

There are enough amusing observations and anecdotes to make the film diverting. Thorpe's own adventure in speech therapy... looks suspiciously like something a documentary filmmaker would do to give his movie a through-line.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2015