You don't need to keep this to yourself... but you don't need to advertise it either.
If for whatever reason MLP gets tossed into a conversation then just roll with it... other then that don't try to go out of your way to tell people.
And if you really need to talk about MLP then talk about it online, make a thread on the forums... a forum... join a MLP forum... do what you need to do because people you meet online will be a bit more caring (ok... not all the time... this is the internet after all).