![]() ![]() But after he traveled to Pakistan and interviewed closeted athletes, it became clear that this travel project would not have the impact Daley desires. A good documentary is inherently a study in conflict, and in that sense, Tom Daley: Illegal to Be Me won the gold.ĭaley wants to prevent anti-LGBT countries from being able to host future Commonwealth Games, to send a message about intolerance and homophobia. The short answer is: “No, not really”, and though this hour-long documentary was interesting, the fruitlessness of Daley’s quest weighed it down. Across the Commonwealth, home to a third of the world’s population, homosexuality is illegal in more than half of the 56 member states, and in seven of them it can carry a sentence of life imprisonment. ![]() At the 2012 London Olympics, of the 11,000 athletes competing, only 23 identified openly as LGBT (there were actually more athletes called James than any who identified as not heterosexual). Tom Daley’s documentary looking at anti-LGBT laws across the Commonwealth is a sobering watch.
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