Who are the gay wnba players
Which WNBA players are same-sex attracted and how many of them are gay? Adv, when Autostraddle published our very first list of out gay WNBA players several years back, it held merely 15 names. Last season, that number had climbed to 38, although two of the players on last year’s list ended up getting waived from their teams shortly into the season, leaving us with 36. But this year, despite losing a lot of last year’s roster, we continue to win with even more gay players, coming in at 44 so far this year.
Atlanta Dream Gay Players
Brittney Griner
Jordin Canada
In addition to an already prolific seven-year career in the WNBA, Canada is a musician. follow jordin canada on instagram
Chicago Sky Gay Players
Maddy Westbeld
Westbeld is new to the W after being selected 16th overall by the Sky out of Notre Dame in the 2025 WNBA draft. She’s online dating her Notre Dame teammate Olivia Miles.follow her on instagram
Connecticut Sun Gay Players
Saniya Rivers
The 8th annual draft in this year’s class, Rivers comes off some peak performing at South Carolina and NC State. Since joining the Sun, her friendship and TikTok streams with Marina Mabrey have be
The WNBA celebrated their 25th Anniversary during the 2022 season. Not only was their birthday a massive milestone for women’s professional basketball, but the league’s growth has coincided with a growing acceptance of players that identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans.
Back in 1997 when the league first started out there was clear pressure for the league to succeed. That meant the players had to present themselves more traditionally-dressed (see: feminine) often with polished nails and create up – this translated to many players that it wasn’t okay to be themselves.
While the WNBA’s rival the ABL established and embraced their Woman loving woman fanbase early on, it was clear that the WNBA hoped to achieve a broader audience. The WNBA’s efforts into growing their audience was understood, but often the league’s actions alienated the diehard LGBTQ+ community.
We present this history to contextualize how sensitive the WNBA was about their appearance and the prevailing stereotypes about women athletes, masculinity and femininity and their sexuality. These stereotypes lead to being treated differently (discrimination) and ultimately has affected players’ careers on the court (rosters spo
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 inhabit 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 engagement 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 queer woman bar called “Girl Bar.”
May 2002 – Brand-new York Liberty veteran center Sue Wicks interviewed with “Time Out New York” and became the league’s first active player to show up 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
Is the WNBA a male lover 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 relax 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 appreciate her cause she's ivory and they don't fancy her cause she's straight."
However, it's important to mention that Travis' claim about 70 percent of WNBA players being lesbian is not backed by any credible source. In fa
With the 2025 WNBA season in entire swing, team rosters are pretty much set.
With that in mind, we wanted to look into answering a somewhat controversial question that many have regarding the WNBA — that question organism what percentage of the players name as gay or lesbian?
Though that scrutinize is often asked (for both superb and bad reasons) it hasn’t been answered with any authority. Without any reliable data has led to a lot of misinformation, wild speculation, assumptions off unreliable facts thus perpetuating damaging stereotypes that keeps the league down.
Most of the oblivious comments from online commenters that are clearly proud in verbalizing their lack respect for women athletes. Especially for those women athletes that don’t observe, dress or display as they hope for them to. And because they’re not able to sexualize them and are threatened by robust, athletic, even masculine women, they react angrily out of discomfort and be afraid of 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 incorrect with that, it paints the league into a corner. Our g