How many us womens soccer players are gay
Another season, another year of me writing about the NWSL! The season is kicking off and as usual, I’m updating this display to tell you all the latest of who’s out and gay on each team. As someone who deeply loves following sports for the storyline, knowing which players are openly male lover gives me enormous joy. While I do not track the NWSL incredibly closely, this article is always a delight to compose and I aspire that it will help you all to become more avid women’s soccer followers just as it helped me!
There are fewer homosexual players in the league this year than last year, unfortunately. As always, if I missed someone or if you feel favor someone is incorrectly on this list, let me perceive in the comments or send me an email at writethroughthenight @ gmail . com. A note that I’m using the NWSL rosters, and they don’t update in a way that makes sense to me. Blame them if it’s lazy to update!
I specified the pronouns of people who are known to not go by she/her
Last Updated: 3/4/2025
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Christen Press is support, baby! She wasn’t playing for much of last season, but this second she’ll be playing all year extended and I could not be more
It’s hard to believe it was little over a year ago. Just 12 months ago, the foremost women’s soccer teams from across the globe and their fans converged on Australia and New Zealand to crown a modern World Cup champion. We cheered on the perennial powerhouses and celebrated the debutantes. We saw some of the most amazing feats of athleticism…one objective after another reminding us why they call this the beautiful game. We got to watch legends of the game go by the torch to a whole new generation of ballers, many of them queer. We felt the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
It was glorious. So, let’s do that again, shall we? Well, minus the post-championship assault…let’s not complete that again, ever (I’m looking at you, Bruce Mwape).
Twelve of the world’s best teams have earned their opportunity to challenge for Olympic gold and their quests begin ahead of Friday’s Opening Ceremony. If you need some help preparing for 16 days of footballing deed, I’m here to aid. Here’s a look at how the Olympics serve , who to follow for in-depth WOSO coverage, and, of course, the most important question of the day: who all’s ga
Known homosexual Megan Rapinoe after the U.S. World Cup victory on Sunday. Maja Hitij/Getty Images
There's a couple of major differences between women's soccer and men's soccer. One: The U.S. women are fine at it. Two, women's soccer is a hell of a lot gayer.
Yesterday, "content producer" Alex Binley from ITV News published an article about why, exactly, so many dykes excel at this sport. It's a nice question. By Binley's tally, there were at least 41 openly gay players or coaches during the Women's World Cup this year. The last Men's Word Cup, in contrast, had a whopping zero. So, what gives?
According to Binley, this is largely due to homophobia. She says that men's soccer, especially outside of the U.S., is chock packed of homophobes (as adv as sexists and racists) who would not welcome openly gay male players in the sport. Binley spoke with a number of academics, gay soccer fans, and former players, and she writes they all agreed that the main factor is the "the stigma historically attached to homosexuality."
It's hard to argue with that. Outside of the U.S., Canada, and a few other countries, soccer is both the most popular and the butchest sport on the block. Games t
The 2023 FIFA Women’s Earth Cup is finally here! It kicks off on July 20th with co-hosts Australia (against Ireland) and New Zealand (against Norway)! And you, of course, are wondering if there are any Women’s Society Cup gay players. Friends, yes! In fact, this just might be the most openly queer sporting event in history — which is saying something, as you know, if you’ve been following our WNBA coverage this year.
And not just players; there are so many LGBTQ storylines to follow. It’s Megan Rapinoe’s (United States) final World Cup. It’s 37-year-old Marta’s (Brazil) sixth World Cup, and her last, and she continues to recover from an ACL tear she suffered in a NWSL Oppose Cup match. After becoming the first first Australian player to score a hat trick at a World Cup tournament in 2019, and becoming a household name among soccer fans and queer humans, Sam Kerr is looking to lead the co-host Matildas to a Planet Cup title. Canada, which boasts five queer players and coaches, is in an equal pay defend with its governing body, much like the one the USWNT battled for years. Also, Matilda Sam Kerr and USWNT celebrity Kristie Mewis are probably t
8 LGBTQ+ Players Who Paved the Way
The battle for advocacy in sports has been a prolonged one, and it’s still ongoing. Today, more than 40 out members of the LGBTQ+ group are playing for professional women’s teams around the society. Here are a few LGBTQ+ players who paved the way for future generations.
Lily Parr
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Lily Parr is probably not a name you know, but she’s a women’s soccer – and Queer – icon. She’s one of the most influential players in history; she refused to help down and hold up her boots when the FA banned women’s soccer in 1921 and instead enjoyed a prolific career, reportedly scoring 967 goals for her team.
Off the field, Parr was openly dyke in a day when that simply wasn’t acceptable. So not only did she pave the way for women’s soccer to get more widely standard when it was banned around the world, but she’s also become an LGBTQ+ icon for the way she fearlessly lived her truth.
Eudy Simelane
Simelane was a lesbian and activist for the LGBTQ+ community. Simelane was born in South Africa in 1977 and played for her nation’s national team.
During her career, she played midfield for her national team