What percentage of women basketball players are gay

Maya Moore and Napheesa Collier just gave birth with their husbands. Off the court, she has a wife and kids that are incredibly cute. Kayla McBride is a great shooter and overall athlete.

As a WNBA champion, Olympic winner, and top competitor in league history, Seimone Augustus has stood as an LGBTQ+ rights supporter throughout her professional career.

If you haven’t watched their live streams yet, you’re missing out. Off the court, Williams and Heideman run the Twitch stream “Studbudz” where they talk about their life, gay things, and just generally have a great time.

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After Diana Taurasi announced her retirement, Natasha Cloud and Brittney Griner left Arizona (and the beautiful new practice facility) and headed for greener pastures.

She’s joined by Jordan Horston, Ezi Magbegor, and Nneka Ogwumike. The way the draft worked was that each team could protect 6 players and the Valkyries went on to choose one from each team after that. 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 pretty 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.

She uses her immense support for WNBA activist work to join anti-racism initiatives. Throughout its history, this league has established complete support for diversity. Although the historic draft class of Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese should be given much of the credit for the W's rise, the league's viewership was already on an upward trajectory from years prior.

She married her former teammate Penny Taylor on May 13, 2017. Bueckers is wildly talented and should complement Ogunbowale well in the backcourt, with defensive champion Carrington and a healed Maddy Siegrist holding down the 3/4 positions.

In a Game 5 win in the playoffs semifinals in October 2021, Taurasi had a sweet message for Taylor, who was giving birth to their daughter.

As of the start of the 2025 season (with big shout out to The Fruit Slice) we were able to identify 48 of the 156 available WNBA roster spots were held by players who publicly identify as LGBTQIA+ that’s approximately 30.8% of the league.

The list above names off 41 active WNBA players that consider themselves gay, lesbian, or queer.

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.

One of the trailblazing events igniting the rise of LGBTQ+ athletes has been the repealing of mandatory gender testing by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1999.

After her time in the court, she makes additional efforts to advance LGBTQ+ inclusion and promote mental health awareness through her social media handle and by participating in various campaigns.

While we count what percentage of WNBA players are gay, Sue Bird is one of the foremost names. But defence and rebounds are critical.