Diver Tom Daley ws gold, says he's proud to be a gay champn

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• 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
• GAY DIVER TOM DALEY WS FIRST GOLD MEDAL, VOWS TO 'CARRY ON'
• DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD, SAYS HE’S PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHAMPN
• TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
• TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD TO SAY I AM GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’
• TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD’ TO BE A GAY MAN AND OLYMPIC CHAMPN AFTER WNG GOLD
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• BRISH DIVER TOM DALEY AFTER WNG FIRST GOLD MEDAL: 'I FEEL CREDIBLY PROUD THAT I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• OPENLY GAY DIVER TOM DALEY WS BRONZE MEDAL SYNCHRONIZED DIVG
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD
• GAY DIVER TOM DALEY WS FIRST GOLD MEDAL, VOWS TO 'CARRY ON'

'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD

Tom Daley and his divg partner, Matty Lee, brought home a gold medal for Team Great Bra Monday on the synchronized 10-meter platform dive, and the victory was pecially meangful for Daley his send Olympics as an openly gay me out a YouTube vio 2013 shortly after he began datg his now-hband, Dt Lance Black.

"I feel credibly proud to say that I’m a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " Daley said via the Olympic News Service after wng gold.

GAY DIVER TOM DALEY WS FIRST GOLD MEDAL, VOWS TO 'CARRY ON'

"I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. Bra’s Tom Daley got his long-awaed gold medal divg on Monday at the Tokyo Olympics and livered an spirg msage to his gay fans. “I hope that any young LGBT person out there n see that no matter how alone you feel right now, you are not alone and that you n achieve anythg and there is a whole lot of your chosen fay out here ready to support you, ” said Daley, who paired wh Matty Lee to pture the men’s synchronized 10-meter, who won bronze the dividual 10-meter platform London 2012 and a bronze the synchronized platform R 2016, clared:“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.

DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'

Star Brish diver Tom Daley secured his first gold medal Monday and said not only is he proud to be an Olympic champn, but also an openly gay man. “I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” Tom Daley, 27, said to news meras streamg around the world after clchg the gold medal the synchronized 10m platform alongsi his divg partner Matty Lee.

He said Monday beg an openly gay athlete has never been easy — but his victory prov anythg is possible. The Olympic Gam, which has long been a venue for cultural exchange and exposure, was a symbolic stage for Daley to talk about life as an openly gay man, his marriage to film producer Dt Lance Black and their 3-year-old son Robbie. Stg bi him were athlet om Cha and Rsia, which placed send and third the petn, and ont of him were news meras om those lol — streamg his msag back to both untri where gay marriage is illegal.

DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD, SAYS HE’S PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHAMPN

The victory was pecially meangful for Daley his send Olympics as an openly gay man. "I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " said Daley who was visibly emotnal. Daley's Amerin-born hband won a screenwrg Osr 2008 for “Milk, " the bgraphil film based on the life of gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk.

As the stereotype go, gays may not be able to drive. But they n certaly thank openly gay Brish diver Tom Daley, 27, who won Olympic gold on Monday after a 13-year pursu. Followg his victory, Daley spoke at a prs nference about beg an openly gay Olympian.

TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'

“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” Daley Lance Black, Daley’s hband and the Osr-wng screenwrer of Milk, praised his hband’s victory on Twter. But to Daley, who is openly gay, the w — his first Olympic gold — went beyond a first-place fish.

TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST

“I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” Daley said a prs nference followg his and Lee’s achievement. Gay Tim rrponnt Tom Knight tweeted that Daley’s gold medal, along wh the athlete’s ments, would impact the larger LGBTQ muny. Per The Guardian, Daley, who me out 2013, said after his long-awaed gold, “I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.

“I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.

TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD TO SAY I AM GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’

“I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.

For Daley, who is openly gay, and Lee, was a stunng w over the favored Che divers Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen and played out dramatic fashn that saw the Brs w the gold by 1. After the petn, Daley had some powerful ments on what meant to w the gold medal as an openly gay athlete. "I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " he add.

Daley publicly announced he was gay 2013 followg his bronze medal London, sayg he always felt he was "alone and different and didn't f. Gay Brish diver ws Olympic gold.

TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD’ TO BE A GAY MAN AND OLYMPIC CHAMPN AFTER WNG GOLD

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BRISH DIVER TOM DALEY AFTER WNG FIRST GOLD MEDAL: 'I FEEL CREDIBLY PROUD THAT I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'

23, 27, revealed publicly 2013 that he was gay after wng a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics. "And I thk ’s one of those thgs that I feel credibly proud that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn … I feel very empowered by that.

OPENLY GAY DIVER TOM DALEY WS BRONZE MEDAL SYNCHRONIZED DIVG

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Tom Daley, an openly gay diver om Bra, won a bronze medal today at the 2016 R Summer Olympics wh teammate Daniel Goodfellow the men's 10-meter synchronized platform divg.

Daley has prevly said that he avoid takg part a petn Rsia shortly after g out bee he felt unsafe given the prevalence of homophobia and a raft of anti-LGBTQ legislatn the untry. “I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, ” said Daley, who ma his Olympic but when he was only 14.

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD

” Daley me out as gay 2013, and is one of at least 142 out LGBTQ athlet petg at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics—the hight number on rerd, acrdg to NGO GLAAD.

GAY DIVER TOM DALEY WS FIRST GOLD MEDAL, VOWS TO 'CARRY ON'

In 2017 he married Dt Lance Black, an Amerin screenwrer and filmmaker who won an Amy Award 2008 for his origal screenplay for Milk, a bpic of polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Today, we revis Augt 23, 2008, the day Beijg, Cha, when an out gay man won a gold medal at the Olympic Summer Gam. What Mcham’s w means to gays everywhere.

An openly gay male athlete won an Olympic gold medal.

By wng the gold medal the men’s 10-meter platform divg, Mcham stck a goln blow for gay people everywhere who’ve been told they’re flawed or not good enough, pecially the athletic arena. For all the gay men who have been lled weak, sissi, pansi, too emotnal, not tough enough to pete sports, that fal dive was for you.