Hello fellow wanderers! I’m currently on a brief holiday blogging vacation, so to celebrate the end of 2013, I’ll be counting down (up?) my top 6 posts of the year. Why 6? Well, in case you haven’t realized, I like to do things (especially lists) non-traditionally.
Coming in at #6 was December 3’s post, “As Tom Daley Comes Out.” The 19-year-old British Olympian diver attracted a lot of attention with his recent coming out, and his YouTube announcement personally affected me.
Check out the excerpt below, and you can read the full post here. Check back later this week for my #5 post of 2013!
Tom Daley came out yesterday. Maybe you didn’t hear, or maybe you don’t even know who Tom Daley is. He’s an Olympic diver from Great Britain, and he won a bronze medal in London last year. He’s only 19 years old.
Tom Daley is also an incredibly fit, attractive dude; needless to say, I’ve known about Tom Daley since last year’s Summer Olympics. His big YouTube announcement yesterday certainly caught my attention and gave me lots to think about. Take a watch:
His inner gears officially cranked and synchronized with the outer, his delicate confession made, Tom Daley went on to elaborate how he always thought “something like this” (still not using the g-word) could happen to him despite still “fancying girls.”
Side note: have I ever mentioned how much I love Brits and their fanciful dialect?
As of this posting, over 4 million people have watched Tom Daley’s video. I personally connected with so much from his five candid minutes.
First, as already stated, I love seeing darkness brought to light. Religious and moral beliefs aside, you can clearly see the difference in Tom Daley’s demeanor before and after his confession. That’s excess emotional baggage being forever shed; that’s real.
