Could One's Occupation Have A Bearing On Whether Or Not A Person Is Prepared To Come Out As Gay?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/11145935/Middle-class-Britons-60-per-cent-more-likely-to-admit-to-being-gay.html

/// Only 1.4 per cent of working class respondents surveyed – those in manual or routine occupations – described themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual. ///

/// But among those from a managerial or professional background the figure rises to 2.2 per cent. ///

/// Although the total proportions are small, the figures suggest that middle class professionals are 57 per cent more likely to describe themselves as gay than manual workers. ///

Or could it be that gay people are only likely take up certain types of employment?

[Zeuhl]

/why aren't heterosexuals represented? /

jomifl

do they have specific issues that the existing organisations don't represent?

if so ... what baldric said

[in a mo]

The Village people might have covered a broad demographic but apart from not living in a Village, The Indian never saw battle, the Cop never raise his truncheon in anger, the Construction worker well did you see his hands,he never constructed anything, oh maybe Lego ( other building blocks are available) finally the Sailor or was it a Traffic Warden I have no idea ,I have lost the will to type .

[jomifl]

Of course they do, they are no different from the lesbian gay transexual crossdressing paedophile minority in that respect.

[Baldric]

TGFT!

[Baldric]

That ^^^ was @ in a mo

[Zeuhl]

/Of course they do/

Really jomifl?

what are they?

and if the existing mainstream organisations aren't addressing them, why haven't they started their own?

[Zeuhl]

jordy

How do you know they haven't been?

or are you making the case for homosexuals being more secretive?

[EDDIE51]

Only 2.2% ? the 'gay lobby' used to claim that 1 in 4 people was gay/lesbian that is more than 10x as many! Is it becoming less popular?

[sp1814]

EDDIE51

I think you're mistaken in your belief that the so-called 'gay lobby' tried to convince anyone that one in four people are gay.

I suspect you may be remembering this story:


Perplexing news for the single women of this country's great capital. According to a survey commissioned by The London Paper, one of the free sheets that is handed out on the Tube, slightly more than one in four of the men in London is homosexual.

This cheering snippet of information was buried in a survey carried out especially for Valentines Day on the subject of the love life of your average Londoner.

Question two, rather oddly phrased, ran: "If you had to choose, which gender would you be more interested in?" The results ran thus: three per cent of the women surveyed were lesbian, three per cent professed to be bisexual and 94 per cent preferred men. But of the men, only 71 per cent were romantically interested in women with a whopping 26 per cent preferring each other (the remaining three per cent being conspicuously easy going in the matter).
A call or two to discover the source of this information and thus decide whether to take it seriously leads me to Amit Chakravarty at an outfit called Iris PR, who tells me they commissioned the survey from Skopos, a market research consultancy based in the City.

"It looks as if Skopos used a sample of 400 Londoners aged between 18 and 45. And I can see from the information that I have here that only 120 people answered that question: 55 men and 65 women."

So hardly a statistically significant sample. A spokesman for Stonewall, a campaigning group for gay rights, laughs when I ask him if it can possibly be true that more than one in four male Londoners is homosexual? "Government statistics have it that six per cent of men and women nationally are gay – but that's an estimate because it's not a question that is on the census. I'm not aware of any specific statistics for London, except that the numbers are accepted to be higher."

[sp1814]

EDDIE51

Of course, you may have a different source for your idea that this number was put forward by the 'gay lobby'.

I got mine here:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/emmahartley/8571337/One_in_four_men_in_London_is_gay_Really/

[sp1814]

Incidentally...if you through a tennis ball around the reception of the offices of Stonewall, would you be lobbing around a gay lobby lobby?

[EDDIE51]

sp1814 I never believed the 1 in 4 theory anyway , always thought 1 in 10 was high. ( and I was working in London in the 1980s which was supposedly the 'peak' of gay lib)

[douglas9401]

We used to have a gay lobby but we go for more muted colours and a neutral carpet these days.

'Coming out' doesn't seem to be much of an issue if child two's friends are anything to go by. They are what they are, as somebody nearly sang. :-)

[Svejk]

I knew a gay agoraphobic.
He came out but dashed straight back in again.