Contents:
- TOM DALEY AFTER WNG GOLD: ‘I'M GAY AND AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN'
- 'I FEEL VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
- THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
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 VERY EMPOWERED': DIVER TOM DALEY DISCS BEG OPENLY GAY AFTER WNG GOLD
"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.
THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
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.
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. ” 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.
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. When the Olympics start this weekend R Janeiro, there will be a rerd 41 publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet. Includ this total are a rerd 11 gay male athlet.