When we listen to others, that's receptive communication. My perspective of 'gay speech' is that it has to do with acceptance and integration into a culture/community you seek or feel a part of. Having grown up in the homo-hysterical 80s, I hate to admit that I think that those whose voices 'pass' for straight are the lucky ones. This behavior trait appears on a continuum, so some men who are straight may have a feminine vocalization, while many men who are gay did not have their vocalizations 'feminized' so-to-speak. Another evidence of this is that some women with very low-pitched voices may sound like gay men. I didn't learn it from anyone, it was inherent. From an early age, it identified me as gay. Generally XY babies develop masculine behaviors, and YY babies develop feminine behaviors, but sometimes the nerve pathways associated with the other sex's behaviors get developed. The extent to which we develop either is determined by the interplay of hormones in utero. The human embryo has the capacity to develop either male or female behaviors. Likewise, we humans know masculine or feminine vocalizations when we hear them. The male/female animal didn't learn it from its father/mother.
These sex-determined vocalizations are not learned behaviors - they are inborn.
You can identify the sex of many animals by their vocalizations. It has a biological basis, just as homosexual attraction does.
