Tom Daley, Olympic gold wner, proud to be openly gay

Contents:

• 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
• TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD TO SAY I AM GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN’
• TOM DALEY EXPLOR THE TRIALS OF BEG A GAY DAD NEW MEMOIR
• DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• TOM DALEY ON G OUT AS GAY: 'I DON'T THK SHOULD BE NEWS'
• TOM DALEY: I AM NOT GAY - BUT I DON’T RE IF YOU THK I AM
• TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
• TOM DALEY: 'I AM A GAY MAN NOW'
• DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD, SAYS HE’S PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHAMPN
• TOM DALEY: OLYMPIC DIVER REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP
• TOM DALEY SAYS 'I AM A GAY MAN NOW' AND HIS CURRENT RELATNSHIP IS 'ALL GOOD'
• TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD’ TO BE A GAY MAN AND OLYMPIC CHAMPN AFTER WNG GOLD

'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. “I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. Of urse he knew there were issu; that much of the Commonwealth homosexualy is still crimalised, thanks to the Brish empire exportg dranian homophobic laws to the loni the 19th century.

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

Sce then, he’s done a volte-face about banng homophobic untri om hostg major sports events, and created a manifto for LGBTQ+ clivens that he is hopg will be ‑opted by the mte for everythg om the Commonwealth Gam to the has so much to say that he don’t que know where to start. She had a gay iend who was killed, stoned the streets.

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TOM DALEY EXPLOR THE TRIALS OF BEG A GAY DAD NEW MEMOIR

Then the equaly of gay marriage has been brought to qutn. 11, Spicer / Getty Imag file“As gay parents and gay dads, I sometim feel like we are held to a higher level of judgment, ” Daley, 27, wr. ” Last week, while acceptg the Sport Award at the 2021 Attu Awards, Daley lled for a ban on untri where homosexualy is punishable by ath om petg the Olympics.

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.

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

”In March 2013, Daley went for dner at a iend’s home Los Angel and met Dt Lance Black, a screenwrer 20 years his senr who won an Osr for Milk, the bpic of gay rights mpaigner Harvey Milk.

TOM DALEY ON G OUT AS GAY: 'I DON'T THK SHOULD BE NEWS'

Had he thought he might be gay?

“He was Mormon, so homosexuals were put the same group as serial killers. ”What advice would he give a gay footballer?

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsTom Daley’s revelatns about his sexualy ma ont page splash across the UK when he first posted a YouTube vio which he admted to beg a relatnship wh a man last later clarified that he was gay, and that he had never been happier. The A-list opposg Rsia's anti-gay lawsShow all 15“But I also unrstand that is still news. He says he don’t thk of himself as a p-up, even though his tramark skimpy speedos have gaed him an army of fansSgle: Tom lov girlsOlympic divg hunk Tom Daley sists he is NOT gay – and says he don’t re if people thk he is.

TOM DALEY: I AM NOT GAY - BUT I DON’T RE IF YOU THK I AM

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

I lgh off, ” says Tom, who was voted the world’s sexit man by inic gay magaze Attu last week. “But I n unrstand why I have a massive gay followg – I spend most of my life half naked tnks on a divg board showg off my bare cht. But I’m ol wh my gay followg.

TOM DALEY: 'I AM A GAY MAN NOW'

It’s great to have gay fans even though my iends gently take the mick. “If people thk I am gay or that I don’t foc on my divg enough and go out too much, there is always gog to be an opn – and if I worry about that too much, then my divg go downhill.

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

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.

“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. " For those not the know (like Daley, apparently), the term "twunk" is a portmante of the words "twk" and "hunk" and is generally ed to refer to a gay man who has a bigger, stronger build than a twk but is not que as big as a beefke or a hunk. Today, he says he is a gay man.

TOM DALEY: OLYMPIC DIVER REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP

Last December, he opened up a YouTube vio about his relatnship wh another man, but did not e the label "bisexual" or "gay.

"I am a gay man now, " Daley said, per E! Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #entertament #gaystereotyp #photos stori and more. 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.

TOM DALEY SAYS 'I AM A GAY MAN NOW' AND HIS CURRENT RELATNSHIP IS 'ALL GOOD'

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.

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

Brish divg star Tom Daley reveals he is a gay relatnship. Earlier this year, September, the London 2012 bronze medalist was voted the world’s sexit man by leadg gay magaze, Attu.

Atralia’s Matthew Mcham announced he was homosexual before he won gold Beijg, while four-time Olympic champn Greg Louganis me out as gay after qutg the sport 1995. Read: Gay athlete promis openly fiant stance at Gam.