Straight man becomes gay after stroke

http://theweek.com/article/index/221...raight-man-gay

Lifestyle

Did a stroke really turn a straight man gay?

Chris Birch, a banker and rugby enthusiast, was all set to marry his girlfriend. But after a freak accident, he suddenly found himself attracted to men

posted on November 10, 2011, at 6:15 AM

After suffering a stroke, Chris Birch woke up to find that he was suddenly sexually attracted to men, and broke up with his female fiancee. Photo: YouTube


Chris Birch was a macho, heterosexual, rugby-loving jock who was engaged to his girlfriend. Then one day, he woke up in a hospital, and the 26-year-old from South Wales found that he had undergone a radical change. "I was definitely gay," he says. A guide to this strange case:
What happened?
Birch was doing backflips in front of his buddies. While trying to impress them, "he fell down a grass bank," says Britain's Daily Mail, "breaking his neck and suffering a stroke." Birch was rushed to the hospital and spent several days in a coma, surrounded by his concerned fiancée and family.
And he woke up sexually attracted to men?
So he says. While watching TV during the recovery process, Birch says he found himself drawn to a handsome actor on screen. "I felt my stomach flutter, and the same feelings I used to have for pretty girls came across me," he says. "I had never felt like that about a man, but I knew immediately what the feeling was."

Did anyone else hear about this, certainly is going to make the fundies angry...

Not heard about it but having read the above I must admit my gut feeling is that it is at least 75% bullshit.

Originally Posted by DMFP

Not heard about it but having read the above I must admit my gut feeling is that it is at least 75% bullshit.

It's in The Daily Mail but its been reported all over the news and radio stations.

The guy is adamant that he is not lying and has even asked his exs if they thought he was gay before the stroke.

Also there are famous cases where peoples sexual attraction has been changed by strokes, for example a man in his 40s started sexually abusing his daughter after a stroke to the point where he was arrested, he escaped charges on the grounds of mental illness, because when the blood vessel repaired it stopped soon after the procedure.

There are many other cases, since homosexuality is clearly not purely genetic and clearly not purely a choice, but a complex interplay of genetics and environment, I think it's at least possible, although I am as skeptical as the next man.

I respect the fact that we all are entitled to our own opinions.

Having read about it more since my post above, it seems that it possible that he could have been gay all the time without actually realising it - that possibile explanation came from someone from the Stroke Association.

So my feeling is that he did not 'become gay', it was part of him all along.

More about this story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17703018
'The stroke had turned me gay' by Lucy Wallis, BBC News

Chris Birch now.

He doesn't look gay to me

Well Rugby is pretty gay, close to two hours of tugging each others scrotums in the scrum.

I used to play rugby - was a scrum half.

And I'm GAY! LOL

My guess is that he was always gay. Maybe the jolt back to reality after suffering something so life threatening allowed him to stop blocking it out. Who knows really though, it could be possible.

maybe his buddies raped him before they called the amberlamps..