Honey Boo Boo's Uncle Poodle: 'I’m Gay, But I’m as Redneck as I Can Get'

Contents:

• LEE THOMPSON, HONEY BOO BOO'S 'UNCLE POODLE,' TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY IN THE SOUTH FOR SPIR DAY (VIDEO)
• HONEY BOO BOO DECLAR, 'EVERYBODY'S A LTLE B GAY'
• HONEY BOO BOO’S UNCLE POODLE: “I’M GAY” AND “REDNECK”

LEE THOMPSON, HONEY BOO BOO'S 'UNCLE POODLE,' TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY IN THE SOUTH FOR SPIR DAY (VIDEO)

Here Com Honey Boo Boo -star Lee Thompson — aka “Uncle Poodle” — revealed that he is HIV posive a recent terview wh Atlanta-based gay magaze Fenuxe. Next up, he’s hopg to get his own TV show and “highlight what is like beg gay the South.

Thompson, who says he married his hband Geia this past Augt, recently spoke wh GA Voice and explaed why he's a proud gay redneck:"Thgs are changg.

I'm gay, but I'm as redneck as I n get, and we want to be somewhere we n fish and jump on a four-wheeler, go hog wallowg. There's probably 40 or 50 of -- gays, lbians, bisexuals, transgenred people -- around here, they're all open about , everybody knows , " he says.

HONEY BOO BOO DECLAR, 'EVERYBODY'S A LTLE B GAY'

"It's not like there's a gay bar here. Y, the one gay bar growg up was next to the tck stop, so you'd get a mix of drag queens, tcker trolls, and ary dus.

But now that we have imag of trans secury guards north Geia, and gay guys who fish and go "hog wallowg, " thgs will never be the same.

Honey Boo Boo's gay uncle, Lee Thompson, whom she lovgly refers to as "Uncle Poodle, " spoke out about what is like to be gay the South and shared some of his more paful memori honor of Spir Day. "Beg gay the South, people don't like , " Thompson, who has appeared on TLC's "Here Com Honey Boo Boo, " told GLAAD.

HONEY BOO BOO’S UNCLE POODLE: “I’M GAY” AND “REDNECK”

You have homophob that wanna beat you, and bully you, and name-ll you, and hurt you any kd of way.

" Growg up a gay Milledgeville, Ga., Thompson was the target of hate.