Wnba players mostly gay
Which WNBA players are gay and how many of them are gay? Good, when Autostraddle published our very first list of out gay WNBA players several years help, 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 Aspire Gay Players
Brittney Griner
Jordin Canada
In addition to an already prolific seven-year career in the WNBA, Canada is a player. 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 digital 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 Declare. Since joining the Sun, her friendship and TikTok streams with Marina Mabrey have be
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 invigorating as the on-court display of skills. Knowing who’s homosexual and who’s internet 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 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 pursue 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 excellent team and as long as A’ja Wilson and Chelsea Gray are both there they’ll always have a shot at t
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 Jet lesbian league and they resent and are insecure 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 prefer her cause she's alabaster and they don't appreciate her cause she's straight."
However, it's important to observe 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 full swing, team rosters are pretty much set.
With that in consciousness, we wanted to stare 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 doubt is often asked (for both good and awful reasons) it hasn’t been answered with any leadership. Without any reliable facts has led to a lot of misinformation, savage speculation, assumptions off unpredictable 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 show 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
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 country. On June 22, ESPN2 will air the first-ever nationally televised pride game. WNBA President Laurel Richie frames the strategy as a smart business decision: Recent market research 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 solemn 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 devoted fans,” Juliet Macur wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday. Over the past 15 years, WNBA players have led the pro sports planet in openly discussing their sexuality while playing the game. In the initial 2000s, WNBA player Sue Wicks stated publicly that she is a womxn loving womxn and chastised the league for only promoting the personal lives of its straight players. Sheryl Swo