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But the sheer number of out, queer players profsnal soccer sets an spirg new bar for lbian visibily, too.</div><div class="ContentHearByle-kmPyCa emiglw"><div class="ContentHearByleContent-dpPmNn DRFq"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl ContentHearByl-cZqgyJ bHLeKI"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH hdWCIC byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bCbgyH gnILss byle__preamble">By </span><a class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ByleLk-gEnFiw iUEiRd hSmufO skIR eErqIx byle__name-lk button" href="/ntributor/jill-gutowz">Jill Gutowz</a></span></span></p></div><time data-ttid="ContentHearPublishDate" dateTime="2019-06-19T15:19:59-04:00" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearPublishDate-eIBicG iUEiRd dCoEhu 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But over time, I lost touch wh my ner sporty girl. I let the athlet I idolized fall to the waysi as I beme acutely aware of the stereotyp that me wh beg a “tomboy” who liked sports.</p><p>Year later, 2015, a iend ved me to a sports bar to watch the US women’s natnal soccer team play the FIFA Women’s World Cup. I accepted the ve, but I had no ia how special that day would end up beg. The bar was packed wh queer women, pated red, whe and blue, even donng US Women’s Natnal Team jerseys wh the nam of players on their backs: Rapoe, Lloyd, Man. I had never seen anythg like ; was like an all-lbian reboot of your lol sports bar on any given Sunday. Wnsg that ma me feel like queer women were fally beg weled to sports fandom, somethg I felt we've always wanted on but were never given the space to really be a part of . And then I realized why most of the women I was iends wh, who weren’t sports fans at all, wanted to watch the game the first place: Thirst.</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj fAzNVP"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eoUd"><p>“They reprent our abily, as queer women, to be open,” said Megan Steffen. “They reprent women’s equaly. They reprent strength, power, hope, and so much more.”</p></div></asi><p>The women of the USWNT are hot, y. But many of them are also openly queer, and are embraced by the public as such, somethg that’s still fairly unmon profsnal sports. In the 80s, tennis star Billie Jean Kg was <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">outed</a> as a lbian, and tarnished her reer. Her volvement the battl for Tle IX, the Equal Rights Amendment, and equal purs tennis meant she had more than her reputatn on the le. Back then, even Kg herself wrote off the relatnship wh the woman who outed her as a “flg,” aaid of facg homophobia om the public and om her own parents. She chose to stay married to her hband for the time beg. A lot has changed sce then.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>Today’s USWNT, which is petg agast Swen the Women’s World Cup for the sixth time on Thursday, has five out queer players: Megan Rapoe, Adrianna Franch, Tierna Davidson, and Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris, who are engaged to each other. Their ach, Jill Ellis, is also an out queer woman. And the women aren’t jt <em>out</em>. They’re herald as such by queer women and straight sports fans alike. Some, like Rapoe, have even been elevated to that veted “athletic superstar” stat. An out, nspicuoly lbian athletic superstar? That’s monumental. The women are shreddg the stereotyp and negativy that have shroud female athlet for s. That’s why they have a leral cult of queer stans who follow them onle, and GIF them and tweet about their ship nam like they’re pop stars. If that’s not the morn versn of “gettg slimed on the Kids’ Choice Awards,” I don’t know what is.</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj fAzNVP"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eoUd"><p>I nearly crashed my r to marvel at a towerg billboard of Megan Rapoe, an out lbian, enlarged to god-like proportns, lookg down on the cy of LA and juxtaposed wh those famo three words I’ve seen nearly my entire life: <em>Jt do </em></p></div></asi><p>“Ashlyn [Harris] is who I want to be when I grow up — the hair, the fashn, beg able to pull off beg a platum blon AND a ep bte. My queer envy knows no bounds when to her,” said Bec Canote, a 29-year old digal ntent strategist. Canote said she’s always been a sports fan, but upon speakg to other self-intified queer stans of the USWNT, I realized that many of them aren’t to sports — they're strictly USWNT thirst cultists. And that’s more than okay, too.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Molly Priddy, a 33-year old wrer, said she started followg the team 2011. “I thought was a really tertg group of players and also, like, a really attractive group of women wh great legs,” she said. But for Priddy, the visibily of players like Rapoe and Krieger meant “everythg” to her. “Havg queer women as such visible stars is everythg,” she ntued. “When I was growg up, the ia of dyk sports sred all the parents — who would be the changg rooms wh the other girls? Wouldn’t they be predatory that environment? The answer, obvly, is no, but beg an openly gay athlete was and is still a gamble for many athlet. So for the soccer players to be at the top of their game, que lerally, and be open about their sexualy? It’s powerful.”</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj fAzNVP"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eoUd"><p>“I thought was a really tertg group of players and also, like, a really attractive group of women wh great legs,” said Molly Priddy.</p></div></asi><p>And visible they are: In May, Megan Rapoe <a href=">beme</a> the first out lbian to pose for <em>Sports Illtrated’s</em> Swimsu issue. The magaze, known for s male gaze, featured a spread wh the soccer star that was nothg short of a lbian gaze; wh Megan’s cut abs and soft-butch haircut, the shoot actually seemed to ter toward a queer female dience. That same month, Rapoe was featured alongsi her teammat a Nike mpaign that erected sprawlg <a href=">billboards</a> New York Cy and Los Angel. I drove past one of them Downtown LA, nearly crashg my r to marvel at the towerg image of Megan Rapoe, an out lbian, enlarged to god-like proportns, lookg down on the cy of LA and juxtaposed wh those famo three words I’ve seen nearly my entire life: <em>Jt do </em>. It was powerful. As a lbian, ma me feel weled. It ma me feel celebrated.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="0lq0cr"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="7qtdkf"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bectqB body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Megan Steffen, a 22-year old stunt, told me that this sort of queer visibily actually helped her grapple wh her own sexualy, after beg raised a nservative, Christian home. “Especially as a young, closeted girl, the ia of beg ‘out’ never felt like a possibily,” she said. “To be gay was somethg shameful, a loss. Yet as I grew to love the USWNT, I saw the oppose. I saw openly queer women livg their liv fully, not seeg their queerns as a loss, but as somethg that uld propel them to w. They had enough nfince to be fully themselv, both on and off the field. For that I’m forever grateful, bee they tght me I uld be openly queer and still w, that beg gay wasn’t an tomatic loss.”</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="g6yu5g"></div></div><p>So, y — for many queer women, our love of the USWNT is about thirst. When I asked why they were fans of the USWNT, many of the queer women I spoke wh jt said “their legs.” But go so much eper than their betiful, tanned, throbbgly veed legs. This year, there are 34 out queer women petg the FIFA Women’s World Cup, pl one ach (Ellis) and one traer. Megan Rapoe is currently <a href=">part</a> of a class-actn lawsu agast the Uned Stat Soccer Feratn, the most recent eratn of a longstandg dispute which mands equy for s female players. The women are game-changers more ways than one.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>“They reprent our abily, as queer women, to be open,” Steffen said. “They reprent women’s equaly. 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A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * us womens soccer team gay *

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'GO GAYS!': WHY USA'S LGBTQ WORLD CUP STARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER

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grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bectqB body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p> </p><p>The Tokyo 2020 Gam are g soon, and they’re shapg up to be the <a href=">queert Olympics ever</a>.</p><p>Over 140 out LGBTQ+ athlet will pete across 26 sports reprentg at least 25 untri, acrdg to <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Outsports</em></a>. That figure is larger than all prev summer Olympics bed. Overall, there are eight tim more openly queer women athlet than men, and the gold medal for the hight number of LGBTQ+ athlet go to Team USA, which will reportedly send more than 30 LGBTQ+ petors to Japan.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>There will, however, be some large and loomg absenc. Fans rema outraged that beloved queer sprter <a href=">Sha’Carri Richardson</a> was <a href=">disqualified om petg</a> after ttg posive for THC, which she admted to g to pe wh the ath of her mother. The U.S. Anti-Dopg Agency has been acced of enforcg arbrary and racist l, wh a <a href=">petn to let Richardson n</a> gag over 500,000 signatur.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>Also missg will be <a href=">CeCe Telfer,</a> a transgenr nner who ma history 2019 as the first openly trans woman to w an NCAA Champnship. Telfer was <a href=">recently emed eligible</a> to pete the 400-meter hurdl after failg to meet World Athletics hormone requirements.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="ndd1mh"></div></div><p>Although Richardson, Telfer, and others will be eply missed, there are dozens of out U.S. athlet to watch this summer. Some of them you already know and love, like one of Ameri’s favore power upl, soccer star <a href=">Megan Rapoe</a> and basketball star <a href=">Sue Bird</a>.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>But there are also many lser known out athlet, om gby players to wrtlg legends to shot put stars, who are preparg to pete Tokyo. Here are seven of the many you won’t want to miss.</p><div aria-label="social media post" class="TwterEmbedContaer-ggEzfU fHwbKp"><div class="MsageBannerWrapper-krrtvl zGyQW ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ" data-ttid="msage-banner"><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MsageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd cBiKDS jWqkgM"><h4 class="ConsentBannerTle-lgaGAH gOfech">Twter ntent</h4><p>This ntent n also be viewed on the se <a href=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLk-dJZMSz iUEiRd cBiKDS hMJHAg">origat</a> om.</p></div></div></div><h2><strong>Raven Snrs – Charlton, SC – Shot Put</strong></h2><p>At the Olympic trials Eugene, Oregon, queer shotputter <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Raven “Hulk” Snrs</a> earned her spot on Team USA wh a personal bt throw of 19.96 meters, all while donng green hair and an Incredible Hulk mask.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="4we754"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="qwjwup"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bectqB body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>This will be Snrs’ send Olympics after earng 5th place at the R Gam 2016. Sce then, she has been outspoken about her queer inty as well as her stggl wh mental health and suicidal iatn.</p><p>“Wh the world jt beg more open and ey-open-ears-open, I jt feel like the more I speak, I may get through to one to two or three more people,” she <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">told <em>GO Magaze</em></a> last July.</p><p>Snrs me out durg her hman year of high school and said that she ref to let her inty as a Black queer woman bee a source of shame. “People n say whatever they want to say, but I don’t re bee this is how I do this,” she told <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>GO</em></a>.</p><p>While Snrs is eager to head to Tokyo, may not be possible to top the excement she displayed after her performance Eugene.</p><p>“Let’s go! Let’s go!” she shouted at the top of her lungs, prsg her face to a televisn mera before shoutg out her hometown. “Charlton, South Carola, we here! We here! Come on!”</p><div class="InstagramEmbedContaer-jbvDdB bgqGfh"><div class="MsageBannerWrapper-krrtvl zGyQW ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ" data-ttid="msage-banner"><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MsageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd cBiKDS jWqkgM"><h4 class="ConsentBannerTle-lgaGAH gOfech">Instagram ntent</h4><p>This ntent n also be viewed on the se <a href=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLk-dJZMSz iUEiRd cBiKDS hMJHAg">origat</a> om.</p></div></div></div><h2><strong>Chelsea Gray – Monte, CA – Basketball</strong></h2><p>Three-time WNBA All-Star <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Chelsea Gray</a> jos Team USA for the first time this year to help the U.S. Women’s Basketball team vie for s 7th nsecutive gold medal.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em 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That said, she wasn’t sred to be out and proud, eher. “I’m not aaid of the nsequenc,” she remarked. “I feel like I’m well protected.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Bougard also believ ’s important to e her stat as an athlete to speak up for the LGBTQ+ muny. “I feel like we have a voice, as athlet, bee more people look at to perform,” she <a href=">told</a> the <em>AP</em>. “It’s important bee I feel like people hate people for lovg who they love.”</p><p>In Tokyo, Bougard will pete the seven-event Heptathlon, which clus the high jump, shot put, javel throw, 200-meter dash, long jump, 100-meter hurdl, and 800-meter race. 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That same year, she peted (and won) the <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">queert World Cup ever</a> as part of the U.S. Women’s Natnal Team (USWNT), which also featured out athlet like Megan Rapoe, <a href=">Ali Krieger</a>, and <a href=">Ashlyn Harris</a>. 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She has sce participated two Women’s Collegiate All-Amerin petns, the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Seri, and the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup.</p><p>An jury ed Thomas to miss the 2016 Olympics, but now she’s head to Tokyo as a -pta of Team USA. “This is really a dream e te,” she told <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">her alma mater’s newspaper</a>, <em>UCF Today</em>. “I’m really exced, pecially after missg out on the last one. 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The Nevada native has sce won the 2018 gold medal at the UCI Urban Cyclg World Champnships Chengdu, Cha.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>This will be BMX etyle’s first year as an Olympic event, and Benegas n’t wa to be part of . “It’s credible jt knowg that our sport is regnized at that level and givg people the opportuny to pete there,” she told <em>Team USA</em>’s <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ternal news se</a> 2018. “It’s jt an amazg opportuny for people our sport.”</p><p>Benegas me out as gay an <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">emotnal Instagram post</a> this past May. “My whole life I've been searchg for happs, while forcefully supprsg who I really was, moro, who 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