Olympic diver Tom Daley came out as a guy who still fancies girls but is dating another guy in a YouTube video on Monday (that guy being Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black). In the end, he received tons of positive messages of encouragement, which probably outweighed the homophobic number of tweets and other messages geared his way.
Interestingly, however, there's the possibility that Daley may identify as bisexual. (He did not specify either way, really.) So of course, there were a whole range of tweets about that.
This guy shared my initial thought about it:
And he was right. Exhibits A through E:
Yeah, yeah, you guys get it. But then I was pleasantly surprised to see that not everyone is biphobic or a dummy.
Respect to Tom Daley for coming out. It's 2013 and people still hate on people for something they can't control. Like why what's the point??
-- Liam (@LiamBailey7) December 4, 2013The media completely ignoring Tom Daley's statements and labelling him "gay" makes me sick to my stomach. #biphobia #erasure
-- Cala Alexandra (@CallMeCala) December 3, 2013And some people were just funny about it.
All in all, Tom Daley, you get a hug from me. Congrats on coming out as whatever you are.
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