This is what the man whose 'stroke ma him gay' has to say, years later | dy100 | dy100

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• EX-RUGBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE
• FORMER HETROSEXUAL CHRIS BIRCH CLAIMS: 'A STROKE MA ME GAY'
• CHRIS BIRCH: 'STROKE TURNED ME GAY'

EX-RUGBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE

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 was fely gay.

FORMER HETROSEXUAL CHRIS BIRCH CLAIMS: 'A STROKE MA ME GAY'

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.

CHRIS BIRCH: 'STROKE TURNED ME 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.