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Originally Posted by octothorp
The best I can do, like you, is a guess, but I'd expect the number of gay athletes in any sport is within a percentage point or two of what it is in the general population, because I just don't see any convincing reason for it to be different.
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You make good points, and really yeah, it's all just guessing so I could be way off. However I think it's not an unreasonable guess, so the chance remains that a big reason for gay athletes not coming out is that there's just very very few of them.
Plus, even if we assume that there's just a small drop in comparison to general population, it could still only leave maybe twenty guys among a thousand. Unless you have one heck of a gaydar, you might not know of anyone else among your peers.
Tough situation to come out.