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> Roughly 52 percent of gay men in the U.S. have a bachelor's degree, while the overall national number for all adults in the U.S. is 36 percent.

Or, maybe, uneducated gay men face more pressure to not out themselves.

If you are uneducated it is very likely your male friends will also be uneducated and probably not very receptive to you being gay.

On the other hand being educated means you are likely less dependent on others that might turn you down, you have more educated friends who will be more likely to respond positively and you work in places which will cause less problem to you if you are found to be gay.




>Or, maybe, uneducated gay men face more pressure to not out themselves.

Or maybe they realize that blue collar jobs are harder (for the most part) to exist in as a gay person than white collar jobs.

There're all sorts of possibilities here.




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