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.

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

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. "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 UNCLE POODLE: “I’M GAY” AND “REDNECK”

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.

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. On the season fale of her h TV show, Alana voiced her pro-LGBT stance, sayg "a't noth' wrong wh be' a ltle gay.