WNBA tips off season with 20% of players LGBT and publicly out

At least six players with the Connecticut Sun are LGBT and out (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

When Outsports began publishing in 1999, we talked with a basketball executive who shared with us behind-closed-doors conversations in the WNBA about how to keep the “lesbian” image of some of its players quiet.

Fast-forward to 2022, that nonsense is far behind…