What percentage of the wnba players are gay

Welcome to my annual Who’s Gay in the WNBA Report! For those of you who are new, every year I shatter 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 exciting as the on-court present of skills. Knowing who’s gay and who’s 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 make 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 follow 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

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j66kicker said:

I suspect it's some mixture of both ("make stuff up" and "distorted perception").

One other possibility no one seems to be considering is that it's ~% true. ???

In any case I expect there is some dose of truth in there somewhere (smoke/fire theory). As someone mentioned, she's a smart person - could she really be that tone deaf? Anyway I'm not sure "truth" is universal in this case. Everyone probably has their own truth - no 2 players treated exactly the same.

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My admiration for Candice Wiggins as a Stanford player and all around nice kidmakes take a role of defender--I never saw her WNBA games, ever.
Perceptions be damned--she to me was exaggerating for effect--knowing full well the numbers were not exact. Or she had the infirmity of someone my age who verb the exact number but it just won't be dumped from the brains computer.
If you knew the levels of defense i have given the local Gay community you'd realize I'm not phobic.
The bullying part --and wanting retribution--may ha

The WNBA finals were in packed swing, and the lesbians were playing to win. In a stunning upset, the Minnesota Lynx team beat the New York Liberty in overtime in game one of the WNBA finals on Oct. It was a nail-biter as the Lynx flipped a point deficit into an amazing turnaround in the literal last five minutes of play.

The win — the biggest turnaround in WNBA history — prompted Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve to voice her excitement. The crowd went wild. Shooting guard Courtney Williams — who had 23 points, including a four-point participate with seconds left in regulation, and thus led Minnesota to the historic win — told ESPN, &#;The basketball gods were on our side tonight.&#;

Or maybe the goddesses. Williams, like about a third or more of the WNBA, is an out lesbian. She and her partner N’Shya appeared on season two of the limited-series “Pride is Love,” and N’Shya posted on Instagram for Williams’ 30th birthday in May, “Happy 30th birthday to my person!! My best friend, my lover, my protector and diary. The last two years with you have been amazing and I’m so honored t

Is the WNBA a gay 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 recover 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 Black 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 like her cause she's white and they don't like her cause she's straight."

However, it's important to note that Travi