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. 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.

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

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 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.

CHRIS BIRCH: 'STROKE TURNED ME 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.

I wish I hadn't said of May, when Vice spoke to Birch, he is livg Cardiff wh his first boyiend Jack, and their four you need someone to talk to about sexualy or genr inty Swchboard LGBT+ helple is avaiable onle, via stant msenger, and on the phone om 10am to 10pm every day - 0300 330 0630HT Vice, Daily Mail, Pk NewsMore: Homophobic people have a higher chance of beg gay, acrdg to science​.

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.