March 24, 2021
Tom Daley, Dustin Lance Black Celebrate Eight Years Together on Social Media
Kevin Schattenkirk READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black have taken to social media to celebrate their eight year relationship, according to People.
On Monday, Daley, the 26-year-old Olympic diver, posted a carousel of photos to Instagram, captioned, "8 years ago we met at a dinner, we lived on opposite sides of the pond and thought it was going to be impossible to make it work ... but we did!
"I am so grateful for all the memories, nearly 4 years of marriage and our darling son, Robbie! I love you xxx."
Similarly, Black, the 46-year-old screenwriter and Academy Award Winner for 2008's "Milk," posted his own cache of photos, writing, "8 YEARS of adventures, blurry naps, endless nights, sore faces from smiling, laughing, exhaustion from night feeds, baby tears. A family. Thank you for every minute of it, my warrior monkey prince."
News of the couple's relationship broke after Daley posted a video on YouTube in December 2013, saying, "Come spring this year, my life changed massively when I met someone and it made me feel so happy, so safe ... That someone is a guy."
Daley and Black announced their engagement two years later, in October 2015. A few months later, in February 2016, Daley told Out that "we had both asked each other's parents, and we both had rings ready to go." The couple married in May 2017 at Bovey Castle, about 30 miles from Daley's British hometown of Plymouth, and then honeymooned in Spain.
In 2018, Daley and Black announced they would be fathers through surrogacy. Their son, Robert Ray, was welcomed into the world June 27, 2018. One of the two is the biological father, but neither Daley nor Black want to know – "he's ours," Daley said while admitting their families point out specific resemblances to both men.
"I don't think we'll ever hide anything from him, in fact I know we won't," Black said. "That's not just our instincts, that's listening to the advice�from people born of surrogacy. They say, 'The things that bothered me are the things I wasn't told. The things I was told don't bother me.'"
Kevin Schattenkirk is an ethnomusicologist and pop music aficionado.