Make room, Tom Daley. Top Brazilian diver Ian Matos just came out in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Correio.
“From a young age, I knew I was gay, but it was here that I got to live my sexuality,” Matos told the paper.
Matos is originally from Pennsylvania. He moved to Brazil when he was 17 to focus on his diving career.
Matos became Brazil’s 3-meter champion last year. A friend advised him not to come out publicly until after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero, but Matos said he was inspired to do so sooner after learning of Tom Daley‘s story.
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Congrats, Mr. Matos. We’ll see you on the diving board–and the bars, we can only hope!
Scroll down to see photos of the 24-year-old diving champion in action.
BBellairs
Ian is much better looking than Tom Daley. The first line of this article says “make room Tom Daley”, instead I say move way over Tom, Ian is in town!
Raphael
@BBellairs: Even though I’m from Brazil, I have to disagree on that.
Cam
Congratulations on coming out!!
Spike
Is everybody gay?!!?
that_dude247
@Spike: At least in the sport of diving.
Ditamo
@Spike: Nah… He’s, I’m, most here are gay, but yet a good 80-90% of the human population is still straight. Now out of those percents, who knows how many are bi or bi-curios?
Tackle
Wait a minute, is he really just 24. Because that fourth pic down, the face pic, I would have guessed about 10yrs older, 34…
But good for him that he came out.
Stache1
Wow. Hot but he’s way too old for DLB.
iMort
Good for you Mister! I hope your gay life is joyful!!!
robho3
I wonder how Tom Daley feels
Trey Durant
You had me at, “Top” and “Brazilian”.
Spike
@robho3: If only Queerty would do a post on exactly how Tom Daley feels about this. We can only hope.
SteveDenver
@BBellairs: WHY THE NEED TO COMPARE? They’re both beautiful. Please don’t be so bitchy, bitchez.
SteveDenver
@robho3:
“I wonder how Tom Daley feels”
I bet he feels silky smooth and tight!
Robert
Congratulations and Thank You for taking the risk….oh yea, I almost forgot….YOU’RE HOT
BBellairs
@SteveDenver: Not being bitchy, and not comparing. My personal preference. I find this man better looking than Tom Daley, he reminds me of a younger Greg Louganis. All I meant was maybe now Queerty will stop mentioning Tom Daley in almost every post.
dayglowjim
You know, and all this time I never actually knew what Tom Daley was so famous for doing. I thought he was like Paris Hilton; famous for being famous.
hotshot70
I still think they should have Olympians compete as the ORIGINAL Olympic athletes did, NUDE! I bet we’d watch the show closer. Of course that is summer games, no one cares about winter olympics.
Kangol
Congrats to him. He’s a cutie. Muito bem.