Why is any guy with a lisp assumed to be gay?

It's a telltale sign. 90% accurate.

I dunno. My personal experience is, I had one. Had speech therapy for it.

Perhaps it's because sibilant and high voices don't sound strong, manly or decisive?

I kind of agree with R1's response, but I'd say it's more like 75% would be my estimate.

Also, on a semi-related note, there's an interesting documentary about this topic DO I SOUND GAY?

General Jim Mattis has a profound 'lateral lisp' and has been rumored to be gay. No evidence, though.

Such a lot of fuss over a few extra s's!

Bright has on a silver wedding ring. Who's the spouse?

Queers always lisp.

Bright was interviewed tonight on 60 Minutes. He's adorable wit the lisp.

I thought he might be gay as soon I heard him speak. He also had rather form fitting pants. His family that accompanied him seemed to be a balding man and a teen boy. Anyone have any more details? Google doesn't turn up anything. The guy is sharp and excellent with his facts and didn't get to his position without being highly qualified.

Has anyone heard Surgeon General Jerome Adams? He has the sweetest lisp!

A lisp is when your "s" sounds like your "th," as in "lithp."

Thath all.

In females, a lisp is considered 'baby talk' and women sometimes affect a lisp to be cute. It's a whole different deal with men. They either have to work with a speech therapist to lose it or wear it as part of who they are.

Doctor: Big breaths.

Girl patient: Yeth, and I'm only thikthteen.

R13 Rimshot!

R12 is right. That's part of the reason for the gay association, because a lisp is considered feminine.

I didn't assume Bright was gay because of the lisp, it was his mannerisms that seemed really gay.

Why is any man wearing a wedding ring considered straight?

An effeminate moth is called a myth... according to Capote.

Emmanuel Macron has a lisp.

Brute is adorable. I missed the tight pants!

Oops. “Brite.”

R21 I preferred "Brute" !!

That football player on GMA has a horrible lisp. Can't watch him.

It isn’t just the lisp, his mannerisms are gay too. He’s GAY, even if he won’t admit it,

R23 That's Michael Strahan. Is he gay? He never talks about wife or kids. What a hottie!

Could it be because we don't like wishker bishkit?

R1 is correct, except that it's not only gay men that have a lisp as part of their cluster. Lesbians and bisexuals of both genders have natural lisps as well. Most seek corrective speech therapy, or are offered the service free of charge.

Lisps do not occur naturally in heterosexuals.

"It's a telltale sign. 90% accurate."

Really? Most of the men I've known with a lisp weren't gay. Plenty of straight guys lisp - look at Humphrey Bogart

What about Mike Tyson? He has a lisp AND a feminine voice...

That's because he's bisexual, r29.

Not openly.

Mike Tyson is a straight rapist.

R28, he was a closeted bisexual.

R31 So Mike is straight and only rapes women? R28 and R30 claim he's bisexual so maybe he also rapes men?

Either way, he's an animal. Rapists have their own circle in Hell.

Has there been a scientific correlation between a lisp and attraction to men. Like is a lisp a result of gay brain, or do guys with lisps act more feminine. Are does having a lisp make one more ostracized and as result end up gay.

I don’t get the lisp thing or gay voice. I always assumed it was just put on to be more femme.

r29, Mike Tyson's voice does not sound feminine to me. Yes he has a lisp, and is a bit pitchy but he never sounds feminine to me. I guess many of these things are subjective.

R34, no, because females with same sex attraction still have lisps

Because they are, Rose.

Because anything unattractive that a man does makes him appear "gay" to stupid people, OP.

That lispy lip makes my pussy cum.

It’s harder in life for people with speech impediments, because they have to maintain baseline nice looks and a likeable demeanour to avoid being ridiculed.

Example: prowrestler Cody Rhodes has an awful case of lisping, but he’s incredibly cute and very in shape so he doesn’t get any stick for it. Personally I think he’s closeted, but I’m not sure that has any correlation to his lisp, and in any event he presents as a good Christian husband with a wife to whom he’s ostensibly faithful.