(Reuters) – Britain’s Olympic diving champion Tom Daley has condemned homophobia across Commonwealth nations on the eve of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Birmingham on Thursday. Homosexuality is a criminal offence in 35 of the 56 nations that make up the Commonwealth, with many still enforcing colonial-era laws from the British empire. Punishments include whipping, life imprisonment and death penalty. As part of a BBC documentary to be aired next month, Daley travelled to some of the Commonwealth’s most homophobic countries to highlight the discrimination faced by the LGBT+ communi…