A friend suggests that he was “advertising” his homosexuality, having kept it a secret for so long.Įlsewhere, the film looks at how the media might have affected his relationship with his voice. Having no recordings of his voice from when he was younger, Thorpe goes to see his family members in South Carolina who claim that he didn’t start speaking the way he does now until his first year at college, which is the same time that he came out.
