Many wrongfully assume that the WNBA is all gay women. We look at the te percentage of WNBA players that are gay, lbian, trans and queer.
Contents:
- CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
- IN 2022, NEARLY 30% OF ALL WNBA PLAYERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, TRANS OR QUEER
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
Candice Wiggs celebrat a w 2011. The WNBA has historilly been the most forward-thkg sports league Ameri when to gay rights. The league has actively urted LGBTQ fans for several years (, if anythg), has had several star players e out of the closet wh ltle ntroversy, and generally been ahead of the NBA, s relatively socially progrsive parent league, on every related issue. * gays in wnba *
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(AP)The WNBA has historilly been the most forward-thkg sports league Ameri when to gay rights.
IN 2022, NEARLY 30% OF ALL WNBA PLAYERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, TRANS OR QUEER
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While the WNBA hasn’t always ma the LGBTQ muny proud wh how choos to promote and acmodate s gay players, ’s fair to say that they’ve ma meangful stris. In a new terview wh the San Diego Unn-Tribune, Wiggs says that “98 percent” of the WNBA is gay and that she would have played two more years if not for the “toxic” environment that affected her as a straight woman:“I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t lend self to my mental state, ” Wiggs said.
“I would say 98 percent of the women the WNBA are gay women. So acrdg to the numbers, I intify as gay now— Deverex Peters (@MsPeters14) Febary 20, 2017It’s tough to asss all of Wiggs’s statements, bee she is ultimately scribg a personal experience that have not yet been refuted.
That piece did not feature any explic reference to the prsure of beg straight a very gay ’s difficult to read this piece, then, whout wonrg exactly where Wiggs is g om. Usg hyperbole to make a pot is not herently wrong, but dog to st a historilly margalized group (gay women, many of whom are also black) as a bullyg force rais ncerns.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Wh that md, we wanted to look to answerg a somewhat ntroversial qutn that many have regardg the WNBA — that qutn beg what percentage of the players intify as gay or lbian? And bee they’re not able to sexualize them and are threatened by strong, athletic, even mascule women, they react angrily out of disfort and fear and that manifts pretg homophobic, racist and misogynistic jok about WNBA players. What Percentage of WNBA Players Are Gay?
Havg done some exhstive rearch on WNBA players that are public wh their sexualy, we piled a list of dozens of retired and active WNBA players that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and/or queer.
Based off terviews, articl, the player’s public Instagram acunts and other onle rmatn, we found the followg gay and lbian WNBA players that are active as of the 2022 season. The list above nam off 41 active WNBA players that nsir themselv gay, lbian, or queer.