Although gay people think they can spot another gay person, this in fact reinforces a narrow idea of who conforms to the 'norm'.

Tom Daley - Heat Magazine - 2013

Tom Daley isn’t gay. But the Olympic diving bronze medallist and presenter of celebrity Speedo show Splash! – recently voted “World’s Sexiest Man” by the readers of gay mag Attitude – doesn’t mind if you think he is.

Last weekend he told the Sunday Mirror: “I think it’s funny when people say I’m gay … I laugh it off. I’m not. But even if I was, I wouldn’t be ashamed. It wouldn’t bother me in the slightest what people thought.”

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