2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, where he also took home his first gold medal on Monday. With his diving partner, Matty Lee, Daley landed at the top of the podium in the men’s synchronized 10-meter diving competition.
Following the win, Daley, who came out in 2013 and is married to screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, told the Olympic News Service, “I feel incredibly proud to say that I’m a gay man and also an Olympic champion.”“And I feel very empowered by that because when I was younger, I thought I was never going to be anything, or achieve anything, because of who I was, and to be an Olympic champion now just shows that you can achieve anything,” he continued. “And to be able to see out LGBT people performing at the Olympic Games, I.