Tom Daley is gay. Why we shouldn’t care.
by DannyUK
So Tom Daley has come out as gay. Well, he’s revealed that he is in a relationship with a man.
(Edit: The fine print of most articles reveals he is bi, apparently, with the emphasis being that he is in a gay relationship. Thought I’d amend that for clarity. The devil is in the detail.)
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It’s breaking news everywhere and will no doubt be a headline in the papers tomorrow. But with the greatest respect to Tom and everyone else involved, who cares?
This is a story that should grace the front of OK magazine, or be in Heat somewhere.
“Celebrity reveals details of relationship” is tittle-tattle reading for bored minds, and though there’s nothing wrong with that at all (trust me, what Heat is to some, Twitter is to me so it’s not a criticism) if news of Tom Daley’s love life is plastered over Sky News, then so should the ongoing saga of TOWIE’s Mark Wright and his love life, or who Jordan has been impregnated by now.
Congratulations Tom. I wish you all the best in your relationship. But sincerely, I hope that my apathy to your announcement be the start of a growing trend where it no longer matters what sexuality you are.
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Kind of on board with the general apathy, Dan – whom Tom Daley sleeps with is his business and nobody else’s, I must take issue with “he’s revealed that he is in a relationship with a man, which amounts to the same thing” line. Not quite. I firmly believe that sexuality is a moveable feast. I know it was for me. Also, Daley’s young and things are still to settle down on the old “what floats your boat” front. He’s also suffered the loss of a stabilising factor in his life and has been in the spotlight since he before he lost his first pair of Speedos in the deep end…
I used to believe that bisexuals were “gays-in-waiting”. Having worked with LGBT people, I now know that’s not the case. Some guys really do like the best of both worlds!
I’ll admit Paul that I read the headlines before reading the stories, so a hasty edit got made earlier to the original paragraph, but you’re right, I think it needs changing again. Cheers for reading and commenting.