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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 repose 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 fond of her cause she's light and they don't appreciate 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
Which WNBA players are queer 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 matchmaking app 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
With the 2025 WNBA season in complete 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 entity what percentage of the players recognize as gay or lesbian?
Though that interrogate is often asked (for both excellent 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 unaware comments from online commenters that are clearly proud in verbalizing their lack respect for women athletes. Especially for those women athletes that don’t see, dress or display as they await them to. And because they’re not able to sexualize them and are threatened by mighty, athletic, even masculine women, they react angrily out of discomfort and apprehension 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 untrue with that, it paints the league into a corner. Our g
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 electrifying as the on-court display of skills. Knowing who’s queer 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 build 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 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
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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 grave 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 society in openly discussing their sexuality while playing the game. In the promptly 2000s, WNBA player Sue Wicks stated publicly that she is a homosexual woman and chastised the league for only promoting the personal lives of its straight players. Sheryl Swo