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• CHRIS BIRCH STROKE: RUGBY PLAYER WAK UP GAY AFTER EAK GYM ACCINT
• I WOKE UP GAY
• EX-RUGBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE
• I WOKE UP GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• I WOKE UP THIS GAY | CREW NECK
• I, A GAY AUTISTIC MAN, AM SHARG 5 THGS ABOUT MY INTERSECTNAL INTY
• 'I WOKE UP GAY': MALAYSIAN LGBT+ BAND MIC TO FIGHT BIAS
• I WOKE UP THIS GAY T-SHIRT - WHE
• I WOKE UP GAY

CHRIS BIRCH STROKE: RUGBY PLAYER WAK UP GAY AFTER EAK GYM ACCINT

The subject of BBC Three show I Woke Up Gay, Chris Birch, has talked about sufferg a stroke, g out as gay, and the subsequent media attentn he's received for his an terview wh Vice May, Chris Birch talked about g out as gay, which happened after he suffered a was one of the one four people unr the age of 65 who experienced a stroke, after he apparently did a forward roll and knocked his prsure damaged an artery brgg blood to the bra, which was reportedly the e of his he revered Birch claims that for the first time his life he had homosexual a 2011 terview wh The Daily Mail, Birch saidI wasn’t terted women any more. I had never been attracted to a man before – I’d never even had any gay iends.

Whether or not the stroke turned Chris gay, or whether he was gay anyway but unaware of , his experience seems to be a posive one, which is a 2017 terview wh Vice, Chris reports that there were other signifint chang to his personaly, such a new fondns for animals, and wantg a change of reer. I was very troverted before, but now I had more nfince and was ls sexualy change was allegedly ls I realised I was gay, I didn't do anythg about for a good six months. The small article was syndited to bee a double page spread The Mirror entled 'A Stroke Ma Me Gay' salon had umpteen phone lls every day om people who wanted to speak to me.

I thought would be more medil; I thought would tell a more hont storyThe seri saw a mera crew enter his Welsh hometown of Ystrad Mynach, and look at the difference between Chris before and after his stroke, wh a foc on his ia that a stroke n e such a change to one's sexualy, or that is a provenance of homosexualy, is obvly told Vice:I know [after a stroke] you're remd of your mortaly and thk you have to live every day differently, or as if was the last.

I WOKE UP GAY

I distctly remember that, but now I look at those feelgs as if they're distant and they don't belong to experience wh the Brish media and the BBC documentary have reportedly led Birch to refe to pay his TV licence, and the sale of a German book he -thored about his stroke have been banned om beg sold the particular, Birch said he was harassed by proponents of 'gay cure' therapi, who held up his experience as were sayg, 'You don't have to be gay. Look, this man wasn't gay before and now he's gay, therefore 's not om birth and we n rrect ' said that others simply did not believe his said I was a liar and gay all along, too. Burly gby player has a stroke after eak gym accint… wak up gay and be a hairdrserChris Birch los eight stone and transforms himself om skhead to 'preened man'Giv up job bank and retras as a hairdrser When 19-stone gby player Chris Birch suffered a stroke durg a eak trag accint, his fay feared would be a life-changg while his revery certaly brought about a transformatn, seems to have been a way no one uld have when he regaed nscns, the 26-year-old – who was engaged to his girliend – claimed he had bee gay.

Before the stroke: Chris Birch weighed 19 stone, worked a bank and played gbyHe was taken to hospal where his fiancée and fay spent days wag anxly at his bedsi before he livered the shockg Birch relled: ‘I was gay when I woke up and I still am. Documentary about Chris, who, after a stroke, changed om a gby playg lad wh a girliend to a gay, image nsc hairdrser terted fashn and terr dér. Today Chris looks different, sounds different and has a pletely different life - he is a gay, image nsc hairdrser terted fashn and terr dér.

EX-RUGBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE

I me to the realizatn that the stroke had turned me gay, ” he a stroke, parts of the bra that have been starved of oxygen di and n e permanent damage, but the bra n also make new nral nnectns and fd different pathways to plete the same tasks and n sometim affect how a person thks, mov or the stroke, Birch had been a beefy, beer drkg athlete workg at a bank and loved motorbik and his girliend he was engaged to be married, and sce the accint a year ago the now 27-year-old qu his bank job, slimmed down 72 pounds, beme a hairdrser and moved out of his home the Welsh valleys and started datg men.

Qazi Rahman of Queen Mary, Universy of London, who has done extensive rearch to the nrologil differenc between gay and straight men and women, has studied hundreds of lbian, gay and straight volunteers and found certa key patterns that may reveal if a person is born gay or, who believ that the bras of gay men uld be wired differently to those of straight men, ved Birch to unrgo the puter-based tts to see if he may have been born gay and found that on half of the tts the ex-gby player sred the “expected directn” for a gay man and the other half of the rults showed that he was wh the range of a straight man. Sudad Jawad said that he has worked wh young people who have suffered strok and has even e across a siar se to Birch, where a man reported that his sexualy had changed om homosexual to heterosexual. Dpe all the problems he’s had his life sce he woke up as a homosexual, he said he has no regrets over how his life has turned a few months of movg out of his fay home he started datg his then 19-year-old boyiend and now fiancé Jak Powell, who believ that Birch had always been gay and the accint jt helped the self-proclaimed ex-straight man realize .

“People grow up not knowg they are gay and have fai and then they realize they are gay, but they don't have a stroke to realize , ” Powell said the documentary “I thk eventually if you hadn't had the stroke would have happened anyway.

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He scrib how was a sry procs to go through and he was aaid to tell people that he was now gay. But never heard of someone actually turn homosexual bee of a neck/head jury.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

I know the bra is a very plex an but serly this looks more like a guy who was gay and was aaid of sayg , so he ed the accint as an exce. So what exactly do this mean for the argument that Homosexualy is a born tra vs the argument that Homosexualy is fact a disease of the bra. But here's another ia, what if he jt ed the accint to adm bee he was too sred before and this gave him the opportuny to be gay openly.

I WOKE UP THIS GAY | CREW NECK

Also, this go a ltle to what I was talkg to another member about the other day about how might one day be possible to brawash people to thkg they are not gay, or a sexual offenr like a rapist or pedophile, and even srier the reverse of that by eher brawashg or affectg eher the way the bra thks somehow to makg people bee pedophil, rapists and homosexuals, or basilly anythg. But image the reverse where people are forced to bee gay, or pedophil, or rapists agast their will bee scientist have figured out s jt a part of the bra that needs to be altered by a simple procre. And what about the strong opposn for the groups claimg they are cured of homosexualy that have been attacked by the mayor of London, and gay groups for hate crim.

I, A GAY AUTISTIC MAN, AM SHARG 5 THGS ABOUT MY INTERSECTNAL INTY

So you n wake up gay, and that ok even though bra damage, but suggt you were once gay and not anymore you are a hatefull person and a liar. Homosexualy appears the same percent of people as shows other animals.

'I WOKE UP GAY': MALAYSIAN LGBT+ BAND MIC TO FIGHT BIAS

In orr for somethg to be nsired a disease has to be harmful to the person or everyone around them and sce homosexualy is not uld never be a disease. Also s possible him sufferg a near ath experience awaked a suprsed homosexual si he cid to act on sudnly sce lif short for him his md now so might not have been ed by the bra damage.

OffleSep 2008114@traed: I unrstand those thgs fe, I was specifilly askg what means for the argument that homosexualy is a disease. And the possibily that the affect that might be forced uld very well be one like pedophilia or homosexualy.

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This is sentially every Homophobe dream e te, a se that prov bra damage is the e of homosexualy. Also s possible him sufferg a near ath experience awakened a supprsed homosexual si. If one n wake up after a near ath experience and realize they are gay, that means n go the other way also.

So what do that mean for ln of homosexuals who live unr state laws who are fightg for rights, that this kd of argument and scientific evince basilly says, no, you n wake up gay one day, or wake up straight one day? You see, he got bra damage, that's they key here, wasn't an 'experience' that ma him thk woe, i'm gay better go live my life ee, was wakg up beg gay when he wasn't before. That lends support to the argument that Homosexualy is basilly bra damage.

TheOmegaSrpnApr 20, 2012 3:28 PMOffleDec 20114154I was gay when I woke up, but luckily went away.

I WOKE UP GAY

This is sort of the Bias that people are met wh regardg homosexualy. But stead of ''gettg over '' like this one poster says The gay muny was outcry, sayg that nt be cured, you are born gay etc.