What percentage of the wnba is lgbtq
Welcome to my annual Who’s Gay in the WNBA Report! For those of you who are recent, every year I shatter down the list of athletes who are openly queer in the league. As a queer person who has played basketball my entire life, the off-court drama is always equally as exciting as the on-court display of skills. Knowing who’s homosexual and who’s dating who only adds to that for me. If you’re more of a pure viewer of the game and prefer only knowing what’s going on while the clock is running, I do regularly construct WNBA TikToks that I like to think are pretty informative!
The league is well known to acquire some of the foremost pre-game walk-up outfits in all of professional sports, so you’re missing out if you don’t obey at least the @wnba account on Instagram. Here’s a complete list of all out gay players in the league, broken down by team. For my purposes, “Out” means confirmed by the player either in an interview or on their social media. No matter how masculine presenting someone is, I will not be speculating!
Last Updated: 6/27/25
Las Vegas Aces
The Aces are a very superb team and as lengthy as A’ja Wilson and Chelsea Gray are both there they’ll always contain a shot at t
With the 2025 WNBA season in full swing, team rosters are pretty much set.
With that in consciousness, we wanted to watch into answering a somewhat controversial question that many have regarding the WNBA — that question creature what percentage of the players identify as same-sex attracted or lesbian?
Though that interrogate is often asked (for both good and terrible reasons) it hasn’t been answered with any rule. Without any reliable information has led to a lot of misinformation, untamed speculation, assumptions off untrustworthy data thus perpetuating damaging stereotypes that keeps the league down.
Most of the ignorant comments from online commenters that are clearly proud in verbalizing their lack respect for women athletes. Especially for those women athletes that don’t look, dress or display as they expect them to. And because they’re not able to sexualize them and are threatened by strong, athletic, even masculine women, they react angrily out of discomfort and fear and that manifests in deprecating homophobic, racist and misogynistic jokes about WNBA players.
There’s this prevailing perception that the WNBA is all lesbians and while there’s nothing wrong with that, it paints the league into a corner. Our g
Is the WNBA a same-sex attracted league? Clay Travis weighs in and shares a surprising data
Clay Travis, the founder of Outkick, made an appearance on Fox News this week to weigh in on the ongoing drama surrounding Caitlin Clark and the remain of the WNBA. Travis, known for his right-leaning views, suggested that Clark may be facing mistreatment due to her sexuality. He stated, "Caitlin Clark is a white heterosexual woman in a Jet lesbian league and they resent and are envious of all of the attention and the shoe deal that she got."
Travis went on to theorize that the league's resentment towards Clark stems from her being in a relationship with a former Iowa men's basketball player, which contrasts with the sexual orientation of many WNBA players.
He added: "And I think her having a boyfriend, I think it's a fiancé, who by the way said there needs to be an enforcer, creates two different identity politics universes that she doesn't fit in in this league. They don't enjoy her cause she's pale and they don't favor her cause she's straight."
However, it's important to message that Travis' claim about 70 percent of WNBA players being lesbian is not backed by any credible source. In fa
The WNBA Finally Recognizes Its Lesbian Fans
This month, the WNBA became the first American pro sports league to openly recruit LGBTQ fans by launching a dedicated marketing platform, selling rainbow basketball pride T-shirts, and sponsoring pride games across the region. On June 22, ESPN2 will gas the first-ever nationally televised pride game. WNBA President Laurel Richie frames the strategy as a smart business decision: Recent market investigate has revealed that 21 percent of lesbians have attended a WNBA game, and 25 percent have watched one on TV. For a league that’s had serious difficulties getting anyone to fill its seats, those stats are astonishing.
But they’re not really news. Lesbians have been on board since the WNBA launched in 1997, and from there “established themselves as the league’s most faithful fans,” Juliet Macur wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday. Over the past 15 years, WNBA players contain led the pro sports world in openly discussing their sexuality while playing the game. In the early 2000s, WNBA player Sue Wicks stated publicly that she is a lesbian and chastised the league for only promoting the personal lives of its direct players. Sheryl Swo
The WNBA has always been a trailblazer for LGBTQ+ inclusion in sport. The league continues to be one of the most consistently inclusive and steady leagues in the causes it supports, the fans it attracts, and the willingness of its players to survive their lives with PRIDE.
The league celebrates its annual #WNBAPRIDE month with activities and recognitions across the WNBA’s 12 markets and beyond. Let’s look at some of the seminal moments in league history that have shown dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
June 2001 – The Los Angeles Sparks, in their first season playing at Staples Center, became the first team in any professional sport to acknowledge Pride Month. Sparks players boarded a team bus and participated in a rally and party at a Los Angeles woman loving woman bar called “Girl Bar.”
May 2002 – Recent York Liberty veteran center Sue Wicks interviewed with “Time Out New York” and became the league’s first active player to reach out publicly. Wicks said she never viewed it as a momentous announcement.
“I was already 35 years old and had lived around the world and had some ideas about who I was as a person and what made me happy,” Wicks told Outsports