The days of waiting until you were in a seniors home before you put pen to paper and wrote a memoir of your life, are well and truly over. But how old/young can you be when you have lived long enough to have a story to tell? According to British gay Olympic diver Tom Daley, the answer could be just 26 years old.
He’s putting time in now writing Coming Up for Air: What I Learned from Sport, Fame and Fatherhood which is due to be published by HarperCollins in October. Daley, now a husband and dad, and two-time World Diving Champion, will discuss the lessons he’s learned from the moments and experiences that have helped shape him.
In between writing stints, Daley is also preparing for the Tokyo Olympics. He actually made his Olympic debut in Beijing 2008 at the tender of age of 14-years-old. Since then, he’s gone on to win two bronze Olympic medals, two World Champion titles, and multiple other medals and titles the world over in individual and synchronized diving.
And lest we forget the three-time BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year winner also scored big time in 2017 when he married Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Black, 20 years his senior moved to London where the couple now live with their son Robbie.
Daley promises that he will write about his journey to reclaim the narrative around his sexuality, when surrounded by rumors and insinuations he very bravely came out in 2013 in a YouTube Video which instantly went viral
Coming Up for Air: What I Learned from Sport, Fame and Fatherhood will be published in the UK in hardback,
ebook and audio on 14 October 2021.
Queerguru had the joy of interviewing Daley’s hubby in 2018 when Lance Black’s own memoir Mama’s Boy was published. You can read our review of the book HERE and also see the interview here
https:// queerguru.com/dustin-lance-black-on-why-hes-happy-to-be-a-mamas-boy/
