--- title: Tom Daley Homophobic Tweets Portrait by Conor Collins description: U.K. artist Conor Collins makes a portrait of Olympic diver Tom Daley out of homophobic tweets directed at him after he came out. canonical: https://time.com/73563/artist-turns-homophobic-tweets-about-tom-daley-into-a-portrait-of-the-olympic-diver/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-23T15:00:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:01.678Z og:title: This Portrait of Olympic Diver Tom Daley Is Made from Homophobic Tweets He Got After He Came Out og:description: The latest effort to turn hate into something beautiful og:url: https://time.com/73563/artist-turns-homophobic-tweets-about-tom-daley-into-a-portrait-of-the-olympic-diver/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Portrait of Olympic Diver Tom Daley Is Made from Homophobic Tweets He Got After He Came Out twitter:description: The latest effort to turn hate into something beautiful twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Artist Turns Homophobic Tweets About Tom Daley Into a Portrait of the Olympic Diver  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 23, 2014 3:00 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 23, 2014 3:00 PM UTC [Jezebel](http://jezebel.com/artist-creates-portrait-of-tom-daley-from-homophobic-tw-1566340235) highlights via [_The Plymouth Herald_](http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Artist-creates-portrait-Plymouth-diver-Tom-Daley/story-20993708-detail/story.html?333#ixzz2zf70OvXE) a U.K. artist’s portrait of the English Olympic diver Tom Daley that is made from homophobic tweets directed at him after he revealed that he was in a relationship with a man in a [video message](http://youtu.be/OJwJnoB9EKw) uploaded to YouTube on Dec. 2, 2013\. Daley retweeted the artist Conor Collins’s tweet of the portrait last week. The project is reminiscent of the [Honey Maid](http://time.com/49715/honey-maid-responded-to-hateful-anti-gay-comments-with-this-inspiring-ad/) video in which negative comments about its “This Is Wholesome Campaign” — featuring mixed-race parents and same-sex parents — were rolled up and arranged on the floor to spell out the word “Love.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/73563/artist-turns-homophobic-tweets-about-tom-daley-into-a-portrait-of-the-olympic-diver/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/73563/artist-turns-homophobic-tweets-about-tom-daley-into-a-portrait-of-the-olympic-diver/"},"headline":"Artist Turns Homophobic Tweets About Tom Daley Into a Portrait of the Olympic Diver","datePublished":"2014-04-23T15:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:01.678Z","description":"The latest effort to turn hate into something beautiful","url":"https://time.com/73563/artist-turns-homophobic-tweets-about-tom-daley-into-a-portrait-of-the-olympic-diver/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Appreciation"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/73563/artist-turns-homophobic-tweets-about-tom-daley-into-a-portrait-of-the-olympic-diver/","name":"Artist Turns Homophobic Tweets About Tom Daley Into a Portrait of the Olympic Diver"}}]}] ```