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Straight WNBA star: Lesbian culture broke my spirit
Candice Wiggins was a college star at Stanford, the third choose of the 2008 WNBA draft and a 2011 champion. And at the mountaintop of her basketball career, her sexuality marred the moment.
There is a “very, very harmful” society running throughout the WNBA, she says, which saw her get bullied during her eight-year career because she is heterosexual.
Wiggins, who last played in the league in 2015, said she retired prematurely to exit a league that she estimated — wildly — is 98 percent woman loving woman, and which is played in such isolation that it weighs on the people on the court.
“It wasn’t like my dreams came right in the WNBA. It was quite the opposite,” Wiggins said in an extensive San Diego Tribune story published Monday. “… I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t loan itself to my mental state. It was a depressing state in the WNBA. It’s not watched. Our value is diminished. It can be quite hard. I didn’t like the society inside the WNBA, and without exposing too much, it was toxic for me. … My spirit was entity broken.”
The 30-year-old couldn’t take it any
Welcome to my annual Who’s Queer in the WNBA Report! For those of you who are new, every year I separate down the list of athletes who are openly queer in the league. As a lgbtq+ person who has played basketball my entire life, the off-court drama is always equally as exciting as the on-court show of skills. Knowing who’s same-sex attracted 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 famous 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
Las Vegas Aces
The Aces are a very good team and as long as A’ja Wilson and Chelsea Gray are both there they’ll always have a shot at
Is the WNBA a same-sex attracted 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 Dark 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 favor her cause she's alabaster and they don't appreciate her cause she's straight."
However, it's important to leaflet that Travis' claim about 70 percent of WNBA players being lesbian is not backed by any credible source. In fa
Which WNBA players are gay and how many of them are gay? Successfully, when Autostraddle published our very first list of out gay WNBA players several years advocate , it held merely 15 names. Last season, that number had climbed to 38, although two of the players on last year’s list ended up getting waived from their teams shortly into the season, leaving us with 36. But this year, despite losing a lot of last year’s roster, we continue to win with even more gay players, coming in at 44 so far this year.
Atlanta Hope Gay Players
Brittney Griner
Jordin Canada
In addition to an already prolific seven-year career in the WNBA, Canada is a performer. follow jordin canada on instagram
Chicago Sky Gay Players
Maddy Westbeld
Westbeld is new to the W after being selected 16th overall by the Sky out of Notre Dame in the 2025 WNBA draft. She’s dating website her Notre Dame teammate Olivia Miles.follow her on instagram
Connecticut Sun Gay Players
Saniya Rivers
The 8th annual draft in this year’s class, Rivers comes off some peak carrying out at South Carolina and NC Express. Since joining the Sun, her friendship and TikTok streams with Marina Mabrey have