What Percentage of the WNBA is Gay? Between 30-58% - Interbasket

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• CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
• THE 2021 WNBA ALL-STAR GAME IS THE GAYT PROFSNAL BASKETBALL GAME EVER
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY
• TOP 5 WNBA PLAYERS WHO ARE GAY / LBIAN FEAT. BRTNEY GRER, SUE BIRD, AND MORE
• IN 2022, NEARLY 30% OF ALL WNBA PLAYERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, TRANS OR QUEER

CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT

(AP)The WNBA has historilly been the most forward-thkg sports league Ameri when to gay rights. 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.

THE 2021 WNBA ALL-STAR GAME IS THE GAYT PROFSNAL BASKETBALL GAME EVER

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. Other players "were liberately tryg to hurt me all of the time, " said Wiggs, attributg that to her beg straight and "proud to be a woman, " thgs she said weren't accepted a league where she claimed "98 percent" of the players are gay.

She played for four anchis her eight-year reer, and the achg staffs for those teams were diverse, a mix of men and women, gay and straight people, and those of different rac. But 'nobody r about the WNBA' and '98 percent of the league is gay' are pletely false statements.

But Wiggs' "nobody r" remarks sound almost as if they had been pied and pasted om some snark-filled "The WNBA Is a Joke" msage-board for the assertn that virtually all of the WNBA's players are gay, try to "look and play like men" and are actively hostile to straight players? Beanna Stewart has had a 2021 for the ag: proposg to girliend and WNBA rival Marta Xargay May, wng her send Olympic gold medal Augt, and welg her first child to the world one day later.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

And, pecially, the gay women! I went back and looked at all the prev rosters and I thk this is the most openly gay All-Star Game ever.

THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY

I remember how the league forced the players to takg Femy class and how they kept the spotlight on as many straight, feme players as possible… now look at this roster…filled not jt wh gay players but wh married gay players (some wh children even).

For the young kids to have , and to have so many players be openly gay, and to have the WNBA jt be so eakg ol — to be such trend-setters — mak me really emotnal, hontly. There’s even been this shift the past few years where — like, for most of the WNBA’s days, there’s been a “stigma” that everyone’s gay. Heather: She also said that the lbians tried to basilly doctrate her, which was jt the wilst thg the world to me, bee most queer players at that pot were probably terrified of beg known as The Gay Player.

TOP 5 WNBA PLAYERS WHO ARE GAY / LBIAN FEAT. BRTNEY GRER, SUE BIRD, AND MORE

I read an terview durg Pri wh Candace Dupree and Amanda Zahui B and Dupree was sayg two of her teammat didn’t show up for the Pri para wh the rt of the team, and they said was bee they didn’t want people to thk they were gay, and Dupree said, “First of all, you play the WNBA, so everybody already thks you’re gay. The women are so beloved, such a part of the cultural zegeist, and SO GAY.

And I tly do love jt how gay everyone is.

IN 2022, NEARLY 30% OF ALL WNBA PLAYERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, TRANS OR QUEER

We’ll be back here after the game and beyond for the Big Gay Olympics, assumg the IOC don’t e to s sense and ncel! For Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird, who me out as gay publicly 2017, the WNBA's embrace of Pri was a part of her journey and also ccial to the league's future. "The WNBA began play June 1997, one year after the Defense of Marriage Act -- which ferally fed marriage as the unn of one man and one woman, and allowed stat to refe regnn for same-sex marriag that were legal other stat -- was signed to league tipped off about seven weeks after the famo "The Puppy Episo" of Ellen DeGener' s which her character out as gay, while DeGener herself was g out real life.

The episo was a ratgs succs, but the show was nceled a season later amid cricism that was "too gay, " and DeGener has said she had to rebuild her reer. "I remember thkg, 'The same people that we're worried about bypassg bee of homophobia are gog to fd any reason to do that bee they're not supportive of women general. After the 2005 season, four-time WNBA champn Sheryl Swoop me out as gay.

1 draft pick 2006 who won four tl wh the Lynx before retirg ahead of the 2021 season, was another proment WNBA player who 2012 me out publicly as gay. "South Korea, Rsia and Turkey -- those aren't gay-iendly untri, but I adjt, " Wters wrote then, addg she saw a big difference between the Uned Stat 2000 when she first played the WNBA Cleveland, and 2016 when she won a tle wh Los Angel.