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

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.
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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?

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