Nobody in his right mind would walk up to a group of "lads" in any city, town, or hamlet and say "Ten percent of you are homosexual," unless he had a death wish*. And in any group of ten lads, there may be nobody there who is gay. But in the next group of ten—who knows? The fact (omigod!! There's that word again!!) is that in any sufficiently large gathering of people, somewhere around ten percent (give or take a percentage point) will be homosexual. This is true in Paris, London, Athens, Seattle, Los Angeles, Beijing, Capetown, Alice Springs. . . .

. . . and, yeah verily, in Glasgow.

Don Firth

*I tend to believe that the reaction one would probably get in this theoretical confrontation stems from the rather tenuous grasp a lot of very macho-seeming men actually have on their masculinity. And that's not theoretical. It's sound psychology.