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Welcome to my annual Who’s Gay in the WNBA Report! For those of you who are new, every year I break down the list of athletes who are openly queer in the league. As a queer person who has played basketball my entire life, the off-court drama is always equally as electrifying as the on-court display of skills. Knowing who’s homosexual and who’s dating website 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 produce WNBA TikToks that I like to think are cute 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 pursue 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
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Fever assistant coach Karima Christmas-Kelly didn’t give her eventual husband — Connecticut Daystar assistant coach Austin Kelly — the time of day when they first met at Duke in 2007.
First, Christmas-Kelly wanted to focus on getting her bearings on the East Coast.
“I'm coming from Houston, and I'm just trying to like, get acquainted to campus and the course load and everything,” Christmas-Kelly said. “So, I really wasn't trying to make friends, I was just trying to get adjusted.”
But Kelly, who played football at Duke in the same years Christmas-Kelly was on the women’s basketball team, was persistent. They shared a study hall together the summer ahead of their freshman year, and he made every effort to connect with her.
“A couple of times, I tried to talk to her and she kind of just brushed me off,” Kelly said. “You know, so as the summer went on, she started to get more comfortable, and started to talk a tiny bit more.”
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New Indiana Fever top coach Stephanie Pale has famous companion who is ESPN star
The Indiana Fever’s new returning brain coach Stephanie White’s partner is a famous sideline journalist for ESPN’s Monday Night Football who has featured on the show for over a deacde
The Indiana Fever’s brand-new head coach Stephanie White’s partner is ESPN sideline writer Lisa Salters.
White was named as the Fever’s new chief coach on a two-year deal on Friday as the team moved instantly to replace Christie Sides, who held the position in the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Pale is the former head coach of the Connecticut Light and will glance forward to primary the likes of Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston next season.
And White’s connection with sport exceeds beyond her have role within the WNBA, with her partner, Salters, a veteran sideline whistleblower for ESPN’s Monday Night Football. Despite their relationship not being majorly in the public eye, a quick glance through White’s Instagram page shows the couple’s relationship.
White and Salters met after the basketball coach had split with her husband Brent McCarty in 2002 after four years of marriage. Light found love again with Salters and the pair reside
Indiana Fever head coach Christie Sides justifies controversial Caitlin Clark decision... and slams team's effort during Connecticut Sun loss
Christie Sides defended her decision to bench Caitlin Clark in the third quarter of the Indiana Fever's 72-89 decline to the Connecticut Sun Monday night.
'We were down 28 and I wanted to put a group in there that would obtain out and play some defense,' she told reporters when asked why she pulled her starters from the floor midway through the third quarter.
'I'm really proud of that community that went out there ... they played hard,' she added.
Sides also publicly blasted her team over a perceived lack of effort throughout the game at Mohegan Sun Arena.
'I'm gonna start with how you can't, at this level, coach effort,' Sides explained.
Christie Sides defended her judgment to bench Caitlin Clark amid the Fever's 72-89 loss
Sides pulled her starters from the floor midway through the third quarter of the game
'I felt like we were just trying to ask them to keep playing strenuous, play hard. You can't start there. You can't play in this league if you have to coach effort. It's just too hard.'
Clark finished with her fourth-fewest po