It doesn't , but it is a personal choice , nobody should be put under pressure to tell others either way , which seems to be what is going on here

As to at what age people know what they are sexually , well I'm with Bill on this , to actually know what homosexuality is at age 8 is wrong , plain and simple , if they do know then the people who have given them this information should be being spoken to by the social sevices , especially if these peop[le are adults

Smokey, you have excelled yourself. I do not accept that a child of 8 or 9 can know it is gay. That is all. Which you more or less agree with. The rest of what you put here is simply guff. You might as well have said, and murder is a bad thing thing, it's about as relevant to what I said as what you have put here.

I said nothing about pretending homosexuality doesn't exist or everything you have extrapolated from your own statement after that. . And then you put another statement that has nothing to do with what I said, at all.

There will be gay/bi RL players, i'd imagine team-mates etc know, they just choose not to tell the press, 'cos its nothing to do with them or us

Buy that man a drink. Most sensible post I've read for ages.

As opposed to some on here who seem to suggest that it should be shouted from the rooftops

That may well be true. However it still leaves the question of why are none of the large group of people who are openly/publicly gay also Rugby League players?

Why? I am. I don't shout it out, my friends know and if someone asks me I tell them. I don't have to shout it out or "go public"

For a lot of people, especially famous people, it's an image thing.

Exactly. I'm sure 99% of fans don't know which players are single/married etc (the other 1% being complete stalkers), and I don't see the difference here really.