Which uswnt are gay
It’s hard to believe it was little over a year ago. Just 12 months ago, the top women’s soccer teams from across the globe and their fans converged on Australia and New Zealand to crown a fresh World Cup champion. We cheered on the perennial powerhouses and celebrated the debutantes. We saw some of the most unreal feats of athleticism…one objective after another reminding us why they call this the beautiful game. We got to watch legends of the game transfer 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 accomplish that again, ever (I’m looking at you, Bruce Mwape).
Twelve of the world’s best teams have earned their opportunity to strive for Olympic gold and their quests begin ahead of Friday’s Opening Ceremony. If you need some help preparing for 16 days of footballing activity, I’m here to facilitate. Here’s a look at how the Olympics operate, who to follow for in-depth WOSO coverage, and, of course, the most important question of the day: who all’s ga
8 LGBTQ+ Players Who Paved the Way
The battle for visibility in sports has been a prolonged one, and it’s still ongoing. Today, more than 40 out members of the LGBTQ+ society are playing for professional women’s teams around the nature. 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 Gay – icon. She’s one of the most influential players in history; she refused to endorse down and dangle 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 sapphic in a occasion when that simply wasn’t acceptable. So not only did she pave the way for women’s soccer to turn into more widely acknowledged 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
Another season, another year of me writing about the NWSL! The season is kicking off and as usual, I’m updating this post 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 gay gives me immense bliss. While I do not pursue the NWSL incredibly closely, this article is always a delight to write and I desire that it will help you all to become more avid women’s soccer followers just as it helped me!
There are fewer gay players in the league this year than last year, unfortunately. As always, if I missed someone or if you feel like someone is incorrectly on this list, let me know 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 sluggish to update!
I specified the pronouns of people who are established to not go by she/her
Last Updated: 3/4/2025
Angel City
Christen Press is back, baby! She wasn’t playing for much of last season, but this time she’ll be playing all year long and I could not be mor
ON JULY 10, 1999, the country held its collective breath as Briana Scurry, the U.S. Women’s National Team goalkeeper, stepped into the net to encounter China in a penalty kick shootout in front of a sold-out Rose Bowl stadium. Many will remember Briana diving to her left to maintain one of the shots out of the net, pumping her fists with fiery intensity and giving her team the chance to win it all. And nearly everyone will remember Brandi Chastain stepping up to hit the win-clenching shot and subsequently ripping off her shirt, uncovering her black Nike sports bra and flexing her muscles for the society to see. No one, however, will remember Briana running over to her then-girlfriend in the stands to deliver her a celebratory kiss—because the camera panned away instantly. America was ready for women to compete in front of massive crowds, but it was not ready for a same-sex couple to kiss on national television.
Fast forward exactly twenty years and the USWNT won another World Cup, this time in France. The team, both diverse and dominant, flourished despite organism embroiled in a lawsuit with its employer for compensate equity—never folding under the massive pressure placed upon its collective shoulde