Percentage of wnba that are gay
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 homosexual and who’s matchmaking app 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 cute 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 wonderful 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 homosexual and how many of them are gay? Good, 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 internet 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
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 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 Shadowy lesbian league and they resent and are possessive 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 record that Travis' claim about 70 percent of WNBA players being lesbian is not backed by any credible source. In fa
The WNBA has always been a trailblazer for Gay inclusion in sport. The league continues to be one of the most consistently inclusive and gradual leagues in the causes it supports, the fans it attracts, and the willingness of its players to live 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 contain shown commitment 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 lesbian bar called “Girl Bar.”
May 2002 – Modern York Liberty veteran center Sue Wicks interviewed with “Time Out New York” and became the league’s first active player to come out publicly. Wicks said she never viewed it as a momentous announcement.
“I was already 35 years old and had lived around the earth and had some ideas about who I was as a person and what made me happy,” Wicks told Outsports
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 study 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 possess 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 linear players. Sheryl Swo