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An interesting hypothesis! It’s not bigotry to look at sociological signifiers of identity categories, and it’s totally reasonable to wonder about correlation between gesture and signing.
But the way the study talks about distal articulation of signs actually seems to point away from flamboyance to me; instead of making big signing gestures that involve articulation at the elbow or wrist (which can be kind of like shouting in sign, the article says), the gay signers made smaller gestures with more articulation at the finger joints (more like whispering).
It’s especially fascinating to me in the sense that the verbal “gay accent” in English also involves hyper-precise articulation - of the /s/ sound, specifically.
Blau, S. (2017). Indexing gay identities in American sign language. Sign Language Studies, 18(1), 5-40.
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