Meet the Queer Women of the US Olympic Rowing Team
“This was a really exciting Olympics for women,” Olympian Teal Cohen tells Autostraddle.
A Tennis Lesbian Power Ranks Tennis Movies and Shows
It’s the U.S. Open, so let’s revisit some of the greatest (and worst) tennis movies, series, and scenes.
28 LGBTQ+ Women and Trans People Competing in the 2024 Paralympics
The 2024 Paralympics in Tokyo kick off this week, and we’ve found all the queer and trans athletes to watch — including the first trans woman to compete and the married lesbian couple on the same wheelchair basketball team!
You Have Texas Queers To Thank for Roller Derby
“The adrenaline rush from the sport is addictive in nature, but it’s the community that keeps you coming back.”
The Olympics Have Always Been a Battleground for Gender Panic
Once again, the conversation on sex testing women’s sports has blasted back into our international consciousness, and people are debating everything from the efficacy to the necessity to the injustices of these tests in the public sphere.
55 LGBTQ+ Women Athletes Won Medals In the 2024 Paris Olympics
Over out LGBTQ+ women won medals in the 2024 Olympics — we ran, we hooped, we kicked, we swam, we rowed, we rugbied, we boxed, we fenced, we cycled, we WON.
The Queer Chess Club Saying Checkmate to Imperialism
NYC-based chess group Queer’s Gambit has always made organizing for queer, trans, and anti-imperial causes a core aspect of the club.
Nothing Is Gayer Than My Love for Women’s Basketball
In some moments, I can’t believe it has taken me this long to find fandom in women’s sports. All the years I missed! But my passion has found me at the right time.
Hot Queers at Bat: 47 Years Later, Big Apple Softball League Is Still Swinging
“To have a space that is completely your own, that you can show up as you are — if you want to show up in drag, if you want to show up and show off your scars, nobody is going to say anything outside of celebrating you — I think that’s very powerful.”
Quiz: Which U.S Olympic Athlete Is Your New Best Friend?
Have you become best friends with the pommel horse guy or are you riding with the face of USA Rugby? Find out in this accurate personality quiz!
Can We Take a Minute To Agree That the Olympics’ Women’s Football Gays Are Playing So Amazing
We’re one week into the Olympic Games in Paris and it’s time to get deep into the state of the women’s football tournament. Also: How many medals the gays have won, Simone Biles delivering the shade MyKayla Skinner deserved, we are all rugby fans now, and more from week one of the 2024 Paris Olympics!
22 Olympics Documentaries For People Who Watch Women’s Sports (Everyone)
There are so many excellent documentaries telling the stories of women’s sports at the Olympics: basketball, soccer, volleyball, gymnastics, figure skating, surfing, swimming, ski jumping, running and more.
All 150+ Gay Women and Trans Athletes Competing In the 2024 Paris Olympics
There are over 150 gay, lesbian and bisexual women and trans people competing in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Let’s meet them!
Here’s All 17 Gay Women’s Basketball Players Going to the 2024 Paris Olympics
The United States’ women’s national basketball team has more gay players on it than any other U.S. sports team — here’s who all’s gay there and in the 2024 Paris Olympics other women’s basketball team!
All 45 Gay Women’s Soccer Players Competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics
Women’s Football is, as usual, the Olympics’ gayest sport. Who are the gay and non-binary athletes playing Women’s Soccer in Paris and who are they dating?
5 Lesbian Couples Competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Can you imagine going to the Olympics to compete for a medal with your girlfriend and/or wife? These gay couples will be doing just that in Paris, coincidentally the city of love.
Quiz: Who Is Your Dream WNBA Olympian Basketball Wife?
Plan your own (imaginary) Olympics adventure with this handy quiz and we’ll tell you whomst of the gay WNBA players competing in France is your (hypothetical) Basketball Wife!
Brittney and Cherelle Griner Had a Perfect Baby Boy, You Can Call Brittney “Pops” Now
Brittney Griner and Cherelle Griner’s much-anticipated and definitely perfect baby Bash Raymond Griner is here!
New Documentary ‘Power of the Dream’ Is a Reminder of the WNBA’s Core Values
It’s important for new and old fans of the WNBA to understand that while this league has 144 of the best women and nonbinary basketball players in the world, it’s also about more than basketball. It has to be.
All the Queer Hockey Players in the PWHL
Here are the 37 PWHL players I could confirm as queer including two teammate couples and a lot of goalies!