YouTube is a good place for this sort of thing. I don't like it when these sorts of things are elevated to national news though and reported on like it's everyones concern.

Good Man Move

I love this. It's a much better move than a spokesperson for the person saying it, or an official statement from them. This is much more honest and thoughtful and as he's only 19, pretty damn brave. Fantastic role model. *promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, December 2nd, 2013 5:12pm PST - promote requested by alien_concept.

Not sure how I feel about this being in the "Gay" channel. Daley has made it pretty clear that he's bisexual, not gay. And it's a pretty common problem that male bisexuals are regarded as a myth. People say things like "If you want to have sex with dudes, you're gay". I've seen a lot of news outlets report this story as Daley coming out as gay, and that just seems like more erasure of male bisexuality.

I don't want to get into the semantics of the tags, but in my opinion this video is appropriate in the "gay" channel.

Isn't it a common stratagem to announce you're bi rather than gay? I suppose it's intended to make it easier for friends/relatives/psycho fans who don't know him to accept it.

I'm not aware of it being a common strategem. I mean, maybe it is, but we can't just automatically assume someone is lying when they say they're bi. Genuinely bisexual people exist (example: me!), and I don't see any reason to doubt that Daley is one of them.

It's your upload, so keep it in the Gay channel if you'd like. But why do you think it's appropriate in that channel, given that Daley doesn't claim to be gay?

Is the "gay" channel generally considered to cover the entire LGBT spectrum? If so, I guess I have no objection to it being there.

Gay channel is defined as "This channel is for videos discussing homosexuality and related issues."
http://videosift.com/gay

I do think (of course i could be wrong) it has historically, on the sift, been used to encompass all of the LGBT community.

I noticed that a couple of videos featuring trans people have also been put in the gay channel. The channel description reads "This channel is for videos discussing homosexuality and related issues.". Is being Bi or transgender "related" to homosexuality? I'd agree that it's a bit of a faux pas to use gay as a blanket term.

Anyway, its a prickly subject. While I think calling the channel LGBT and changing the description would be an improvement, it's not exactly perfect either (see the myriad opinions on what letters that acronym should include/exclude. Altho, seeing a 20letter acronym as a channel name would be pretty sweet.).

ps. I get that he's attractive n all, but why is this news

Aren't all competitive divers gay??
Srs'ly, congratulations Tom, let go and let em talk smack, assholes are assholes and are always gonna be that way.
Celebratory 90 meter belly flop!!