Tom Holland’s Gay Sex Scene 'The Crowd Room' Defend by Fans

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• '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
• TOM DALEY’S NEW BABY ANNOUNCEMENT MAK HIM THE FACE OF GAY JOY
• WHY OPENLY GAY ATHLETE AND OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST, TOM DALEY, WANTS DIVERSE COMPANY ON PODIUMS AND LEARSHIP
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• 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 A GAY MAN NOW'
• TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
• TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE
• DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD, SAYS HE’S PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHAMPN
• TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE
• TOM DALEY SAYS HE IS ‘INCREDIBLY PROUD’ TO BE A GAY OLYMPIC CHAMPN
• TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
• TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

'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. As a gay uple, ’s not jt as easy as a bottle of we and a good time! 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. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #entertament #gaystereotyp #photos stori and more.

TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD TO SAY I AM GAY AND 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. ”Earlier this year, BBC producers suggted that the buildup to the 2022 Commonwealth Gam he should fd out for himself jt how hard is to live as a gay athlete untri that crimalise homosexualy.

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. ”The Sexual Offenc Act 1967 legalised gay sex England and Wal for nsentg adults over the age of 21 ( was fally lowered to 16 2000), but ntu to be crimalised most Commonwealth untri.

Photograph: Le Korzun Mart/BBC/Zc TelevisnHe reasssed his earlier posn on banng homophobic untri om hostg major events when LGBTQ+ athlet and mpaigners told him that a ban would be another form of imperialism.

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

He led out six athlet and activists, rryg Progrs Pri flags, om untri where homosexualy is crimalised.

Then the equaly of gay marriage has been brought to qutn. Through his Instagram feed and YouTube channel, he has bee a go-to source for gay joy the sports world.

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TOM DALEY’S NEW BABY ANNOUNCEMENT MAK HIM THE FACE OF GAY JOY

As an openly gay athlete, he is dog his part to prove that you n be LGBTQ+ and be at the top of your game. As only the third male openly gay athlete to w an Olympic gold medal – Matthew Mcham was the first, 2008 – Tom acknowledg that progrs this area has been slow. (In 2018, Eric Radford was the send male openly gay athlete to w an Olympic gold medal; Greg Louganis me out after his Olympic golds.

WHY OPENLY GAY ATHLETE AND OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST, TOM DALEY, WANTS DIVERSE COMPANY ON PODIUMS AND LEARSHIP

In 2013, when Tom me out as an openly gay athlete, he took a signifint risk. For more tails topics cludg Tom’s sights on alg wh grief, jury, self-doubt, and g out as a gay athlete, as well as the importance of humor, gyrotonics, show-biz, fatherhood, and te love, check out his tobgraphy, Comg Up for Air.

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”A lot of other ers, however, seemed very nfed over the backlash, pecially sce Spir-Man actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have also played gay person wrote, “Watchg agile cishet men have breakdowns over the reason Tom Holland is trendg is sweet we to me. ”“The fact that a sgle scene on an Apple Pl show featurg Tom Holland has brought out so much homophobia om the stupist people is...

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Their relatnship is also said to have bee 'an open secret' among the lol gay muny. " 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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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. When Smh won an Amy Award 2016 for his "Jam Bond" song, they said they were the first openly gay man to w an Osr.

TOM DALEY: 'I AM A GAY MAN NOW'

Today, he says he is a gay man.

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

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! 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.

TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH

However, a month ago, he was volved an cint at a gay bar, Freedom, London. Related: Dt Lance Black reportedly lls ps after brawl London gay bar. Tom Holland has been fend by fans over The Crowd Room backlash ( Picture: Apple TV)Tom Holland has been fend by fans om homophobic backlash over a sex scene The Crowd Room.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

While the moment set social media alight wh praise, also enuraged bigots to plague Twter wh homophobic remarks.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

‘It only took Tom Holland dog one gay scene for Twter to explo to homophobic rants, agile masculy & toxic behavur, ’ wrote on fan.

Another agreed: ‘People makg homophobic jok about this need to unrstand that the hallmark of a good actor is lettg yourself be open to new rol that challenge you. ‘The way how y’all are rpondg to Tom Holland actg a f**kg SHOW is beyond juvenile and homophobic, ’ fumed a third, and their cri were thankfully echoed by so many others.

TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE

When, still damp om the pool after wng his long-awaed gold medal, Brish diver Tom Daley clared his pri at beg a gay man and also an Olympic champn, there were tears and full hearts across the while there was ltle shock – Daley has been a vol advote of LGBTQ+ rights for years – there was a joy and ease to his pronouncement that was new. Photograph: WPA/Getty Imag“When I heard – I’m gog to get emotnal here – when I heard Tom Daley talk the prs nference about beg a proud gay man, and an Olympic gold medalist, I jt thought: y, absolutely y.

Photograph: Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty ImagWomen outnumber men on the list of out gay athlet by about an 8-1 marg, wh women’s football alone acuntg for more than 40 out players.

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

Other gay male petors clu the New Zealand diver Anton Down-Jenks, the equtrians Edward Gal and Hans Peter Mrhoud om the Netherlands and the US x Julian the openg ceremony, the US basketball star Sue Bird, engaged to footballg legend Megan Rapoe, beamed as she bore the US flag.

Ziegler rells a gay footballer tellg him about speakg to the cur Iranian football team about his sexualy, bee their untry homosexualy was illegal and punishable by ath. ”While Daley’s post-swim terview was voured by an overwhelmgly supportive public, other athlet risk their liv to be publicly out at the the Polish rower Katarzyna Zillmann won silver the quadple sculls she thanked her girliend, explag that she wanted to e her platform to help the LGBTQ+ muny Poland where there has been a risg wave of homophobia. The Tongan swimmer Ami Fonua is openly gay and a natnal hero a untry were homosexualy is illegal, punishable by up to 10 years prison.

‘Tom Holland gay sex ma me google The Crowd Room real quick, ’ another trigued viewer shared. ‘Oh no I got my parents to The Crowd Room and I’ve jt learned that one of my theori is rrect and we will ed be seeg Tom Holland a gay sex scene. ReadTom Daley flash a se as he celebrat his 29th birthday wh a homema ke, ice cream and prents wh his children 22/05/23 12:01The Olympic diver looked great spirs as he posed wh a homema ke and an ice cream, which was topped wh a huge Daley's hband Dt Lance Black appears urt to ny charge of assltg mol and BBC prenter 'by throwg drk over her durg row Soho nightclub'27/04/23 10:41Mol Teddy Edwars, 32, who stars BBC3 show The Big Proud Party Agency, claimed she had a drk thrown her face by Black a Soho gay bar Freedom  Augt last Daley's baby surprise: Olympic divg champn and hband Dt Lance Black wele send son Phoenix Rose via surrogate 05/04/23 07:00The Olympic diver, 28, and his hband, 48, shared their surprise baby news on April 5, havg not prevly revealg they were expectg another child.

TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH

Surrogate, but plans for the programme have been shelved after he was unable to film alongsi his Olympic Tom Daley's Christmas: Olympic diver shar snaps makg cktails wh his hband Dt Lance Black and openg gifts wh their son27/12/22 07:09Olympic diver Tom Daley, 28, has offered fans a glimpse to his Christmas celebratns wh his Amerin hband Dt Lance Black and their son Robbie, Daley shows off his edgy sense of style a uniquely patterned su as he pos arm--arm wh hband Dt Lance Black at Brish Vogue's Forc For Change dner05/12/22 12:32Tom Daley, 28, showed off his unique sense of style as he stepped out wh his hband Dt Lance Black, 48, to the Brish Vogue Forc For Change dner on Daley looks suave a cream su wh sat bow adornments as he beams alongsi hband Dt Lance Black at the Gay Tim Honours25/11/22 08:44The Olympic swimmer, 28, looked typilly stylish on Friday eveng as he took to the Gay Tim Honours at event venue Magaze London the Men of the Year Awards: Tom Daley looks dapper a black at and jewel-embellished kn as he si up to hband Dt Lance Black16/11/22 08:40Profsnal diver Tom Daley enjoyed a date night at the GQ Men of the Year Awards wh hband Dt Lance Black London on Wednday.

Olympic divg champn Tom Daley blam 'legacy of lonialism' for homophobia across Commonwealth untri - ahead of new BBC 'Illegal to Be Me' documentary airg tonight 09/08/22 03:35The Olympic gold medalist, who me out as gay 2013, has produced a documentary lled Tom Daley: Illegal to Be Me, which he viss 'the most homophobic untri the Commonwealth' Daley and hband Dt Lance Black tch the eye brightly loured sus as they s the Royal Box on Centre Court at Wimbledon 02/07/22 04:49Shg bright: Tom Daley and his hband Dt Lance Black ught the eye of onlookers as they took their seats the Royal Box on Centre Court at Wimbledon on Saturday.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

But we all knew there was only one lour he Daley to liver Channel 4's 2021 Alternative Christmas Msage as he lls for more clivy and gay ins sport while blastg cisn to hold 2022 World Cup Qatar21/12/21 12:53Tom Daley is set to liver Channel 4's 2021 Alternative Christmas Msage which he lls for more clivy sport and mak a dig at the World Cup beg held Sports Personaly Of The Year Awards 2021: Alex Stt leads the red rpet glamour a sequned semi-sheer gown as as she jos Tom Daley and Lra Kenny at annual event19/12/21 08:142021's eagerly awaed ceremony, held on Sunday night at MediaCyUK, Salford, saw Alex Stt, Tom Daley and Lra Kenny lead the sportg stars as they graced the red rpet Sports Personaly of the Year Awards 2021: Tom Daley, 27, is supported by hband Dt Lance Black, 47, at the annual ceremony19/12/21 07:31The diver, 27, is the nng for the teemed award along wh the lik of Emma Radunu, Lewis Haton, Tyson Fury and Raheem Sterlg.

The Olympic diver Tom Daley has nmned homophobia across Commonwealth natns ahead of the start of petn the Commonwealth Gam Birmgham this part of a new BBC documentary to be aired next month, the athlete vised some of the Commonwealth’s most homophobic untri to expose the danger and discrimatn faced by the LGBT+ muny. “I’ve experienced homophobia all my life, petg untri where ’s illegal to be me and where I don’t feel safe to leave the venue I’m petg , ” he said.

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”The film will culmate wh Daley, who won gold at the Commonwealth Gam 2018, rryg the Queen’s baton to Birmgham’s Alexanr Stadium for the openg ceremony on Thursday, acpanied by some of the athlet and advot he met on his documentary will show him speakg wh a number of LGBT+ athlet cludg Michael Gunng, the only openly gay athlete on Jamai’s natnal team, and Dutee Chand, India’s first openly gay of 56 Commonwealth member stat, 35 crimalise same-sex relatns, makg up half of the untri globally that outlaw homosexualy. “The Commonwealth is a homophobic stutn.

Barthel is divg for Germany and do not classify himself as gay or straight but simply intifi as “human.

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He was adopted om Cambodia at 18 months, and his adoptive father, Jerry, is gay.

TOM DALEY SAYS HE IS ‘INCREDIBLY PROUD’ TO BE A GAY OLYMPIC CHAMPN

In addn, Wdle has ntributed to the It Gets Better mpaign and was mentored om an early age by gay divg legend Greg Louganis—to the pot where he was nicknamed “The Ltle Louganis.

He’s one of the bt and most important stori of the Tokyo Gam after wng his first gold medal Men’s Synchro wh divg partner Matty Lee and spirg lns by clarg, “I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.

"However, the latt episo, which was expected, ed uproar soon after s Holland's fans are quick to jump his fense by praisg him for takg a darg role and also poted to the prev Spir-Man actors' Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield, on-screen gay characters after a trend NotMySpirman was started on Twter. "I feel credibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn, " he add.

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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.

MORE: Tom Daley's nfsn about his son's birth is heartbreakgIn a new documentary airg on BBC One on Tuday, the diver viss some of the Commonwealth untri where homosexualy is a crime and explor how gay athlet are facg extreme persecutn. Fd out all about the Olympian's Osr-wng hband Tom Daley has 'fita Friday' wh hband Dt Lance BlackDt Lance Black's bDt Lance Black is a film producer, wrer, director and gay rights activist. The 48-year-old has been open about his difficult journey as a gay man growg up a Mormon and ary muny Texas.

"Dt Lance Black's reerDt began his reer workg a theatre while High School, before movg on to study at the prtig School of Theatre, Film and Televisn at the Universy of California, Los graduatg, he soon began wrg and directg his own films cludg The Journey of Jared Price and Somethg Close to 15 betiful LGBTQ celebry weddgs: Rylan Clark, Ellen DeGener & moreMORE: Meet the LGBTQ mums and dads and their adorable children: Elton John, Neil Patrick Harris, Cynthia Nixon and more© Photo: Getty ImagDt Lance Black won the Amy Award for Bt Origal Screenplay 2009Dt is perhaps bt-known for his screenplay of Milk – an Amerin bgraphil film based on the life of polician and gay rights activists Harvey Milk, who was portrayed by Sean Penn the film. Shortly after, Tom me out as gay on his YouTube channel and revealed he had a boyiend. The Atralian diver Matthew Mcham, a iend of Daley, was the first openly gay person to w an Olympic gold medal.

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(Kathryn, UK)He’s been a massive source of spiratn – he was the first openly gay man to w an Olympic gold medal. After I me out, I didn’t go to Rsia [which has homophobic laws] to pete, bee I was worried, and then [for the next petn there] I was like: “You know what?

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

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.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

“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. Wng Olympic gold as a gay manDaley me out as gay 2013 and married Osr-wng screenwrer and producer Dt Lance Black May 2017.

But there are still those untri where beg gay is punishable by ath. "Lots of people would e out after they had retired, so I jt hope that wng an Olympic gold medal, wng any Olympic medal, gog to the Olympics as a gay person, a member of the LGBT muny, that any young kids out there that feel like they are ls than... He has bee one of sport's hight-profile gay athlet, a role mol for others the LGBTQ+ muny.