A year after winning a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics, British diver Tom Daley took to YouTube to share that he was dating a man. "I didn't want my words to get twisted. I wanted to put an end to all the rumours, the speculation, and just say it," he told viewers at the time. In the past, Daley has rejected putting a label on his sexuality, telling The Times in 2015, "My generation shouldn't feel the need to be labelled; we are too obsessed by gender. I am not 100 percent straight, I'm not 100 percent gay, I'm just queer. My generation, I think, are more fluid."
Daley has spoken out about anti-LGBTQ+ laws as well. After winning gold in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the diver tweeted, "37 of the competing nations criminalise being LGBT+. I feel so lucky to be able to be openly who I am without worry. I hope one day every athlete from every nation in the commonwealth will be free to compete openly as who they are too!"
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