Can director David Thorpe sound less gay? Should he even try? Let's ask the experts.

Is the gay accent – identifier for the queer community, cheap fodder for comedians, often a secret shame of growing up a little bit different – learnt or inherited?

Newly single and pushing the big 4-0, Thorpe takes the first-person documentary approach to examining his own lilting lisp, consulting linguists, speech therapists and voice coaches. With help from modern queer icons George Takei, Margaret Cho, Tim Gunn, David Sedaris and Dan Savage, as well as homo-on-the-street vox pops, Thorpe sifts through his anxiety of a lifetime of sounding too gay.

People's Choice Award runner-up at the Toronto Film Festival and the opening night selection from DOCNYC, Do I Sound Gay? intertwines personal revelations and sociopolitical implications in a sometimes mischievous, sometimes moving struggle for self-acceptance.

"Lifts the lid on a taboo subject with a welcoming, lighthearted attitude." – New York Times