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Welcome to my annual Who’s Gay in the WNBA Report! For those of you who are new, every year I break 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 stimulating as the on-court display of skills. Knowing who’s same-sex attracted and who’s dating website 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 form WNBA TikToks that I like to think are attractive informative!
The league is well known to have some of the best pre-game walk-up outfits in all of professional sports, so you’re missing out if you don’t shadow 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 nice team and as long as A’ja Wilson and Chelsea Gray are both there they’ll always have a shot at t
Which WNBA players are gay and how many of them are gay? Adv, when Autostraddle published our very first list of out gay WNBA players several years assist, 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 Fantasize Gay Players
Brittney Griner
Jordin Canada
In addition to an already prolific seven-year career in the WNBA, Canada is a artist. 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 carrying out at South Carolina and NC Articulate. Since joining the Sun, her friendship and TikTok streams with Marina Mabrey have be
When she played for Fever, he was a apply player. Now they're married and WNBA coaches.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Fever assistant coach Karima Christmas-Kelly didn’t offer her eventual husband — Connecticut Sun assistant coach Austin Kelly — the time of day when they first met at Duke in 2007.
First, Christmas-Kelly wanted to focus on getting her bearings on the East Coast.
“I'm coming from Houston, and I'm just trying to appreciate, get acquainted to campus and the course load and everything,” Christmas-Kelly said. “So, I really wasn't trying to make friends, I was just trying to get adjusted.”
But Kelly, who played football at Duke in the matching years Christmas-Kelly was on the women’s basketball team, was persistent. They distributed a study hall together the summer ahead of their freshman year, and he made every attempt to connect with her.
“A couple of times, I tried to talk to her and she caring of just brushed me off,” Kelly said. “You know, so as the summer went on, she started to get more comfortable, and started to talk a little bit more.”
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Fans stunned to discover Fever coach Stephanie White's love affair with NBA reporter Lisa Salters amid absences
Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White's relationship with a prominent NBA sideline reporter has caused a stir after it emerged that the couple have stepped help from their jobs amid personal issues.
White, who has coached Caitlin Clark and co. since the starting of the WNBA season, missed the Fever's game against the Chicago Sky on Saturday.
Just a daytime later, her absence was followed by Lisa Salters' notable omission from ABC/ESPN's broadcast coverage of the Oklahoma City Thunder's blowout Game 2 win over the Indiana Pacers in the NBA Finals.
Their absences caught fans' attention social media with light organism shone on their partnership once again.
White and Salters have been romantically emotionally attached since at least 2016, according to multiple reports.
The longtime partners raise a blended family, sharing four sons - White's three biological children, Landon, 13, and twins Aiden and Avery, 11, from a previous marriage, and Salters' adopted son, Samuel, 11.
Some basketball fans were stunned to learn of Stephanie Light and Lisa Salters' relationship
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Married couple Karima Christmas-Kelly, Austin Kelly join Stephanie White's Fever staff
INDIANAPOLIS -- Stephanie White prioritized family when she left Connecticut to become the Indiana Fever's new head coach. That extends to her assistants.
The Fever announced Tuesday that White has hired Austin Kelly and Karima Christmas-Kelly, a married couple with ample coaching experience, as assistants.
From 2023: When she played for Fever, he was a practice player. Now they're married and WNBA coaches.Kelly comes to Indianapolis after he was an assistant under Alabaster for two years at Connecticut, helping run the Sun's offense. The Daystar made the WNBA playoff semifinals each season he and White were there. Connecticut was his first foray into the WNBA after multiple years in the college ranks — he was an assistant coach and recruiting director at University of Texas-Arlington from 2021-23 and the director of recruiting at Vanderbilt from 2019-21.
Christmas-Kelly played nine years in the WNBA, then got into coaching in 2023 when she joined Christie Sides' Fever staff. She worked primarily with the guards in her two years under Sides. As a player, Christmas-Kelly won a title with the Fever