Great Britain’s diving champ Tom Daley has finally bagged himself an Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
He has been backed through the majority of his diving career by his husband Dustin Lance Black – an impressive Oscar-winning screenwriter and director.
The pair have been together since 2013 and Tom came out as gay via a YouTube video soon after they started dating each other.
On Valentine’s day 2018 they announced that they were expecting a baby boy to be born via surrogacy, who they named Robert Ray Black-Daley after Tom’s late father.
Who is Dustin Lance Black?
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Dustin is 44 years old, making him 17 years older than his husband Tom.
Brought up in Sacramento, California, Dustin grew up in a highly religious Mormon household.
Dustin has said that growing up in a Mormon household meant that he worried about his sexuality from a very young age.
When he recognised that he was attracted to boys at the age of 7, he told himself: “I’m going to hell. And if I ever admit it, I’ll be hurt, and I’ll be brought down.”
Dustin came out as gay during his senior year of college, after he had studied Film and Theatre Television at UCLA School of Theatre.
He is now a gay rights activist and member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights.
What is Dustin Lance Black’s job?
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Dustin is a highly accomplished screenwriter and director and has won many prestigious Hollywood awards for his work – including an Oscar.
In 2001 Dustin was hired to write an HBO series called Big Love, a successful show that ran for five series
He then moved on to a feature film called Milk, which was about the life and work of the first openly gay American politician Harvey Milk.
The film was met with critical acclaim and won Dustin an academy award.
Dustin also wrote the screenplay for J.Edgar, starring Leonardo Dicaprio and directed by Clint Eastwood.
He’s even produced When We Rise, which is his own eight-part miniseries about the LGBT civil rights movement in America.
Tom and Dustin currently live in London with their baby – where they have been since 2015.
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