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

Contents:

• GAY DIVER TOM DALEY WS FIRST GOLD MEDAL, VOWS TO 'CARRY ON'
• TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: 'I AM A GAY MAN AND ALSO AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
• TOM DALEY IS DAMN PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
• GAY DIVER ERIC BLEVS WS TWO GOLD MEDALS AT WORLD MASTERS CHAMPNSHIPS
• TOM DALEY ‘CREDIBLY PROUD’ TO BE A GAY MAN AND OLYMPIC CHAMPN AFTER WNG GOLD
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: OUT GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM WS OLYMPIC GOLD
• 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
• DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD, SAYS HE’S PROUD TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHAMPN

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

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

DIVER TOM DALEY WS GOLD: '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. 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.

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

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.

But to Daley, who is openly gay, the w — his first Olympic gold — went beyond a first-place fish.

“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. 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.

GAY DIVER ERIC BLEVS WS TWO GOLD MEDALS AT WORLD MASTERS CHAMPNSHIPS

“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. ” 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.

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

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.

Eric Blevs, an acplished llege diver and now llege divg ach who is openly gay, won two gold medals the 1-meter and 3-meter sprgboard at the the 18th FINA World Masters Champnships Gwangju, South Korea. Beg an openly gay diver has been no problem ternatnal petns, Blevs said.

The jump openly out gay, transgenr and non-bary athlet this year unrsr changg attus around the world and wh the Olympic Gam.

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

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 I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn.

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

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. Wh his glor fal round of six div, the 20-year-old Atralian beme the most signifint openly gay male athlete ever (out lbians such as Marta Navratilova and Ameile Mrmo have won their fair share of tl).

Watchg the divg all week, I would bet my life savgs that Mcham was not the only gay man on the sprgboard or platform. And Greg Louganis, also gay and wner of multiple gold medals, is nsired the greatt diver ever. Never before have gay sports fan been able to watch a man they know is gay w such a major sportg event; no need for gaydar wh Matthew.

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

His story ronat bee ’s universal for lns of people, pecially for many who are gay: Stgglg wh prsn, his sexualy and posssg a rebell streak and a taste for partyg for a kid who was not sure he f (he might have been the only diver Beijg to have a pierced tongue).

He has unrstandably said that he do not want to be known as the “gay diver. ” “Beg gay and divg are pletely separate parts of my life, ” he told journalists after wng the gold. Of urse, that is the attu he should take, but he has bee a role mol for gays everywhere, whether active sports or not, simply by beg the way he is.

Mcham’s succs will not e a flood of gay athlet to sudnly e out.