Cheyenne Jackson is ‘done’ with internalised homophobia over his ‘gay voice’
Cheyenne Jackson. (Getty)
Cheyenne Jackson. (Getty)
Glee star Cheyenne Jackson has said he’s “done” with her internalised homophobia over his so-called “gay voice”.
The actor, 50, who is currently starring in Oh Mary! on Broadway shared his take on the phenomenon known as ‘gay voice’ in a video over the weekend.
In the second in a series he’s started called “Mirror, She Wrote,” which he records as he’s getting ready for the show, Jackson reflected on watching his first video back.
“The first thought I had was, ‘Wow, I sound really gay’,” he said. “And then I thought, I am gay. What’s wrong with sounding gay?”
This, he explained, led him onto ‘gay voice’. He opined that “if you’re in the gay community, you are on the spectrum of gay voice. Everybody’s on the spectrum.”
Placing himself as a “moderate gay voice person,” Jackson said he’d spent years being “very afraid to come across as gay.”
He also shared someone had sent him an old video interview he’d done while on the show Altar Boys in which he’d spoken with a deeper and more typically ‘masculine’ voice.
“I was like, ‘Who the fuck is that?’ ‘Cause that ain’t me,” Jackson said.
He continued: “It’s taken me a long time to be comfortable with just being who I am, and it got me thinking about gay voice, and, like, personally, I love feminine men. I always have. I mean, I love all men. Lots of men. But, my favourite is feminine. I mean, have you met my husband? [Jason Landau]”.
Joking that “everybody from here to Beirut can tell” his husband is gay when he speaks, Jackson noted that “that’s what I love about him.” He explained that Landau “knows who he is” and “doesn’t give a fuck,” adding: “And that is so hot to me.”
The American Horror Story star also said people used to tell him they didn’t know he was gay. “It used to make me feel really good,” he said formerly feeling a sense of success for ‘passing’ as straight, which he commented was “f***ed up.”
Closing the video he concluded: “My internalised homophobia is done.”
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