bayGBM: what is your estimate of gay% at bodybuilding shows?
That depends on how you define gay. I see three groups:
• guys that self identify as gay (they can be effeminate or regular dudes) and they are comfortable with themselves.
• guys that engage in homsexual behavior but do not identify themselves as gay even though they regularly hook up with men. Think Ted Haggard--who still denys that he's gay.
• guys that are deeply closeted, conflicted, never identify as gay, and wrestle with their identity for years. They often hate openly gay men. They may or may not engage in man to man contact or gay porn. They satisfy their impulses with socially acceptable forms of homoeroticism--such as bodybuilding.
I think you’ll find all three among the fans of bodybuilding to different degrees. As for entire percentage of all three? Who can say? I
can say that without gay men, the sport of bodybuilding would not exist.