In the heart of Manhattan’s West Village, a haven for queer New York Liberty fans comes alive. Inside The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, lovingly known as The Center, a vibrant floor hums with the rhythm of basketball, history, and queer fandom.

A poster with a bold declaration — “EVERYONE WATCHES DYKE SPORTS” — hangs proudly against a cream brick wall on the fourth floor of the library and archive space. Nearby, there are snapshots of lesbian couples and fans beaming from the stands of New York Liberty games, draped in the team’s signature seafoam green, posed with players or holding handmade signs. Interspersed among them are childhood photos of fans alongside the early Liberty team, capturing the roots of a lifelong connection. These photos lend a personal touch to the wall that makes you feel as if you’ve stepped into a family reunion for women’s sports fans. Together, they tell a story of visibility, belonging, and celebration both on and off the court.

Playful, vibrant fan-made signs that read “LESBIAN FANS ARE LEGION” and “LIBERTY: LESBIAN FANS ARE FILLING YOUR STANDS!” call to the viewer, encouraging them to bask in its joy and resistance.

Everyone Watches Dyke Sports: Queer Histories of New York Liberty Basketball examines how deeply intertwined queer identity, fandom, and community are within the culture of women’s sports. What began as a collaboration with the New York Liberty — featured initially at the team’s annual Pride game — has since expanded into an exhibition now on display at The Center. Curated by a group of Liberty fans at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the exhibition foregrounds the voices, memories, and artifacts that made Liberty games a hub for lesbian life in the city.

“Lesbian fans have filled the stands of Liberty games since the earliest years of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) in the late 1990s,” says The Center’s exhibition description. “As always, lesbian fans have helped propel the league’s surging popularity. This exhibit tells the story of lesbian fan cultures and their role in the leagues history.”

This thriving fan culture didn’t just develop by chance. It speaks to a larger history of queer community-building and visibility in spaces where LGBTQ+ presence has often been overlooked or excluded. For many lesbian fans, attending Liberty games wasn’t just about basketball, but claiming space, forming connections, and experiencing a sense of collective belonging that was a powerful alternative to the heteronormativity that defined much of mainstream sports culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The spirit of community and resistance is at the heart of this exhibit. From personal photographs and handmade signs to vintage Liberty merchandise, each piece offers a glimpse into the ways lesbian fans have claimed visibility and belonging within (and beyond) the stands. Together, these objects form a visual narrative of creativity, resilience, and joy that has long thrived in spaces where it wasn’t always recognized.

To understand the emotional weight and cultural significance of this fandom, you only need to look at the artifacts themselves.

An original 2002 Liberty ticket stub, from the team’s early days playing at Madison Square Garden, hangs on the wall. Its weathered edges and faded ink are a testament to a different era of women’s basketball. That season, the team was led by Teresa Weatherspoon, Becky Hammon, Vickie Johnson, and more — a powerhouse roster of trailblazing athletes whose talent, charisma, and resilience helped define the early WNBA and laid the groundwork for the visibility and popularity of women’s sports today.

Just beneath the ticket stub, handmade paper glasses and paper fans sit carefully preserved behind glass with a vintage Liberty t-shirt and headband. The glasses, decorated with doodles of stars, hearts, and basketballs, proclaim “Lesbian Fans Fill the Stands!” The handmade memorabilia echoes the same cheeky slogan, but nods to the spirit of Lesbians For Liberty, a group of Liberty fans who protested the team’s management in the early 2000s for their failure to recognize and celebrate its deeply lesbian fanbase.

At the time, despite the visible and vocal presence of queer fans in the stands, the Liberty’s marketing and outreach remained largely silent on LGBTQ+ representation. In response, fans organized under Lesbians For Liberty to make their presence impossible to ignore. They brought protest signs — many of which are featured in the exhibit — wrote open letters, and applied pressure to the organization to acknowledge and celebrate the community that had long supported the team. Among the materials preserved in the exhibit is a flyer with detailed instructions for a “Lesbian Time-Out Kiss-In for Liberty,” inviting “all lesbians, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people” to stand and share a kiss during every time-out in a game as a peaceful act of protest and visibility.

Lesbians for Liberty not only challenged the league to recognize its queer fanbase; it helped open the door for greater visibility of queer players themselves. Over time, the Liberty began to more openly embrace LGBTQ+ inclusion both in its public messaging and in its celebration of out athletes. A pivotal moment came when former Liberty player Sue Wicks came out in 2002 to Time Out, making her one of the first gay athletes to come out in the WNBA. In the exhibition, an archived page from Time Out featuring the interview with Wicks is on display.

The exhibit uses archival materials to highlight how fan activism helped transform professional women’s basketball into a more inclusive space. This not only honors those who demanded visibility, but also invites reflection on building a sports culture that strives for all identities to be seen, valued, and celebrated.

“It’s been fun to watch people’s eyes light up when they see it,” said Lou McCarthy, The Center’s Director of Archives. “The direct action legacy it depicts, rooted in the work of the Lesbian Avengers and ACT UP, is proof that we can change institutions and the world around us on so many levels.”

Everyone Watches Dyke Sports: Queer Histories of New York Liberty Basketball is on view at The Center until September 28.

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It was halftime at a Las Vegas Aces WNBA game, and the crowd was buzzing for one of their most beloved traditions: the baby crawl race. Parents crouched at the finish line. Tiny contestants wobbled and wiggled toward them.

Then, something unforgettable happened.

One little girl in a pink bow crawled out to an early lead. Cameras zoomed in. But then, she paused. Wobbled. And… stood up. 

In a move that brought the entire stadium to its feet, the baby took her very first steps right there in the middle of the race. Socks on. No warning. Just pure toddler tenacity. 

She walked across the finish line straight into her mom’s arms as the crowd erupted in disbelief and joy. 

The video, posted by wnba, has over 57K likes.

Her dad, backstage, could barely believe what he saw: “She just randomly decided to stand up in the middle of the thing!”

From crawl race to core memory

Ask almost any parent about their child’s first steps, and you’ll hear a mix of awe, pride, and often regret. So many of us hope to catch that milestone in real time, camera ready, cheering them on from just a few feet away. 

But more often than not, it happens in a blur: a surprise stumble between the couch and coffee table, or a quiet moment while our backs are turned.

That’s what makes this moment so powerful. It happened in public, in real time, with thousands of strangers watching and cheering her on.

Social media comments poured in, not with snark, but with full-on support. @libravstheworld ​​wrote:

“OMG!!! I would have lost my mind as a mom! What a moment to capture!”

Moments like these remind us that milestones don’t always follow a script. Babies don’t wait for perfect lighting or fully charged phones.

When babies start walking—and what helps them get there

According to the CDC, most babies take their first steps by 15 months, but studies suggest that this range can be as wide as 8 to 18 months. If you have any questions or concerns, reach out to your pediatrician.

Genetics play a role, but so does the world around them. Research shows that babies often hit motor milestones sooner when they’re in environments full of movement, encouragement, and stimulation—like music, cheering, or just being around other people.

So yeah… a stadium full of fans? Turns out, that might actually help.

Related: CDC and AAP just changed developmental milestone guidelines for the first time in decades

What happened next had the whole stadium cheering

If the baby had a fan club, it would already be sold out. In the comments, strangers who had never met this family shared in the moment like it was their own:

•  Simplyilona: “She said this crawling is taking forever!!!! ”
• Bama_quetta: “Draft speech… My first steps were on a WNBA court. It was destined!”
• _nikkigme_: “The fact that she walked the rest of the way, for her first time, in socks, on a basketball court….yea she a hooper in the making FASHO!!!! I would have been a bawling MESS LOL!! ”
• Dlynnespeaks: “The crowd cheering didn’t take her down either! How amazing to have her first steps captured this way. We moms are typically fumbling with the camera to catch the footage. Not her. The whole innanet is watching her! ”
• Dollieb_01: “She was like this crawling stuff ain’t for me anymore.time get down to business…let’s go!”

Related: 11 best baby walking shoes for those exciting first steps

The kind of milestone parents dream of catching

There’s a reason this moment hit home for so many. It reminds us that milestones often unfold in the middle of life’s noise—in between the plans, the photos, and the expectations. This baby’s first steps didn’t happen in a quiet nursery or during a staged shoot. They happened mid-race, under stadium lights, with a socked-foot stride and a stadium full of strangers. And somehow, in the middle of it all, she created a memory her parents—and the rest of us—won’t forget. Not because it was perfect. Because it was real.

Sources:

1. CDC. 2023. “Important Milestones: Your Baby By Fifteen Months” 
2. Developmental Psychobiology. 2021. “Practice and Proficiency: Factors that Facilitate Infant Walking Skill”
3. WIREs (Cognitive Science). 2016. “The development of motor behavior”

This past WNBA All-Star weekend has generated unprecedented levels of buzz, content and delight — in large part due to the (seemingly) unsanctioned and ecstatically entertaining live-stream of the event executed by Court Williams (Court) and Natisha Hiedeman (T), aka the Stud Budz. For what GQ declared to be “one of the most cheerful, devil-may-care weekends in recent memory for professional sports,” the game itself was almost an afterthought. This time, the foreground was ceded to the Stud Budz, who brought their followers on an unedited journey into Indianapolis’ hotel hallways, messy rooftop parties, hungover practices and tunnel gossip.

The Stud Budz danced, several times in several different contexts, to Pink Pony Club. They got scooters and T required an IVs to nurse her hangover. They threw it back with Syd Colson. They did the Shmoney with Cheryl Reeves. T shared a tentative hug with her maybe-crush Skylar Diggins. They were interrogated about strap-on behavior by Megan Rapinoe. They befriended Caitlin Clark’s aunts, and sang “Love” by Keyshia Cole with their arms slung around Paige Bueckers.

“If StudBudz has proven anything to people, I hope it’s that WNBA players really do not hate each other and that this space is absolutely an inclusive space where ppl can be themselves and it’s the norm,” tweeted @sheknowsports. “That stream is EVERYTHING.”

Let’s get into this gay as hell weekend.

The Stud Buds Livestream Became Must-See TV

(Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

Court and T, both 5’8 guards for the Minnesota Lynx, started their Stud Budz Twitch channel at the top of the season, streaming their daily hangouts (except game days), often with special guests (e.g., Dijonai Carrington, Marina Mabrey), all season long. Aside from the thousands who tune in live, there are possibly millions more who scroll through clips every evening on TikTok and Instagram, including myriad viral moments.

Court is the more dominant personality — she’s loud, unrestrained, honest, perhaps the only person in history to respond to accusations of misogyny with the defense, “I don’t even know what [misogyny] means, so there’s that.” Her laughter is full-bodied — she stomps her feet, leaps out of her chair, slaps any nearby shoulders, vaults across the room and back. She’s got an energy that brings you in and shakes you around. T is a more subdued character, the wide-eyed little brother just thrilled to be invited but also very ready to get in trouble. She’s funny, sharing Court’s self-deprecating sense of humor, and is also earnest, supportive and quite frankly, fucking adorable. They’re both fundamentally unserious and always unpretentious. Most of all, they love the hell out of each other, and we love a bromance.

Williams, picked for the 2025 All-Star game, decided to take T along. They announced to their followers that they planned to do a 72-hour livestream of the entire weekend. The objective, it seemed, was mostly just to have a good time and earn some sponsor cash.

They turned up in a series of lightly or precisely identical outfits, both heads of hair freshly dyed hot pink (they often dye their hair during livestreams), delivering an open-hearted, chaotic window into the WNBA’s friends, lovers and chosen families.

The Stud Buds takeover also reiterated what the true backbone of this league has always been — Black women generally, and often Black lesbians specifically. And they made the entire weekend GAY AS FUCK. Here are some of the many gay highlights:

Tash Cloud Won All-Star Skills Challenge, Promised Her Girl a House

@espn

Natasha Cloud dedicated the skills challenge win to her partner Izzy Harrison #wnba #basketball #wholesome #love

♬ original sound – ESPN

After Cloud secured her first All-Star competition victory in the 2025 All-Star Skills Challenge, she sprinted to the sidelines, lifted her girlfriend Isabelle Harrison into the air, and kissed her right on the mouth. In interviews, she heaped praise on Harrison, acknowledged the extreme privilege they have to play on the same team and celebrated the financial winnings which will enable her to put a down payment on a house. “You’re gonna get that house!” she said to Isabelle. Furthermore: “We’re really thankful for where our journeys have brought us and our careers brought us and this is just the next step. So yeah, this is going to be money well spent.”

Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd Were In Full Girlfriends Mode

Don’t worry, we’ve written an entire post about Paige Bueckers referring to Fudd as her “girlfriend” on the orange carpet in an interview with wagtalk. But they were unabashedly together all weekend long, Azzi even saying Dallas flew her out for the event. On Stud Buds, T got her way into a photograph, cheesing that she was thrilled ot be pictured with THEE power couple of the league.

WNBA Lesbian Relationships Got Put On Blast

Jonquel Jones earned some heat a few months back when she commented on an instagram post distributing points to WNBA teams for how gay they were — disappointed that the New York Liberty came out on top she went ahead and shared some missing names, which included asking, “How Gabby on the list but not Marine..?” She was, of course, referring to French ballers Gabby Williams and Marine Johannes, who’ve spent a lot of time playing overseas but both returned to the W this year.

Many know or believe Williams and Johannes are engaged, but neither has confirmed even being girlfriends. After Court casually flirted with Williams on their livestream, she relayed to Johannes, “I know all y’all trying to act like I was trying to take her woman, I wasn’t. I love your woman.”

Both players steered clear of the livestream for the remainder of the weekend — but then the sportscasters got in on the action. After Gabby took a show, Rebeca Lobo noted, “That was for Marine Johannes, I bet”. Ryan Ruocco followed up with, “Gabby’s longtime partner.” OK THEN!

The Stud Buds also poked around Marina Mabrey and Saniya River’s rumored relationship. Who, to be fair, are really baiting us with these homoerotic photoshoots.

Pay Us What You Owe Us

(Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

Finally, I must mention that the players are continuing to fight for better pay in their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), with both All-Star teams showing up to the Saturday night game in “pay us what you owe us” t-shirts. Over 40 players showed up to a union/league meeting on Thursday, but didn’t feel any progress was made.

The skill and fight of these players is on display six days and/or nights a week all season long, but this weekend wasn’t about competition but about personality. It has never been more obvious than it is at this moment in history how much value the WNBA brings to the table, how much talent and charisma remains under-appreciated, how these women bring a playfulness and joy and sexual tension to athletics that you just wanna capture in a bottle and hold close forever. This is sport at its purest. The game itself was fun to watch, as it always is —  players passing the ball to the other team or an injured teammate, eschewing defense altogether or trying to block a shot with an around-the-waist hug.

“This might be the best weekend of my life,” T said to Court on the Friday night livestream. Court was already under the covers while T bopped around.

“Oh, friend!” Courtney screamed.

“No, I’m serious twin,” T insisted.

“Oh T, the best weekend of your life?!?”

“The whole weekend?” T was incredulous. “Yes!”

Courtney threw both arms into the air, bringing her best friend in for a hug, and as T leaned into her, Court yelled, “I love you, bitch!”

And don’t we all.

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It’s been, shall we say, a rough few weeks, but despite all the various forces at play at home and abroad, there is one bright shimmering light on the horizon — WNBA All-Star Weekend, which is being live-streamed by my favorite platonic duo, Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman. That situation is enough joy for one lifetime, but then, last night, we were further blessed: a month or so after hard-launching their relationship through Azzi Fudd taking a selfie with a phone case that said “Paige Bueckers’ Girlfriend” on it, tiktoker wagtalk went ahead and interviewed Paige Bueckers on the orange carpet on the topic of, “How well do you know your D1 girlfriend?”

Fans of Azzi and Paige — so called “Pazzis” — had anticipated spending the rest of their lives enjoying random, incidental confirmations of the relationship here and there — spotting meaningful jewelry, screaming about the aforementioned phone case, framing photos like this one from a recent Bueckers slideshow of life lately…

— but then this brave little wagtalker just straight-up asked Paige who her girlfriend was and Paige literally said “Azzi Fudd.”

@wagtalk

Ask and you shall receive- PAIGE BUECKERS EVERYONE @isomaddy @WNBA #WNBAAllStar2025 #paigbueckers #azzifudd #uconn #WNBA #couplegoals

♬ original sound – wagtalk

Typically, Wagtalk shows up at NBA games, interviewing basketball wives and girlfriends about their athletic man-partners. But followers had been clamoring for them to flip the script and grab a few minutes with WNBA star Paige Bueckers.

Maddy: What high school did she go to?
Paige: St. John’s.
Maddy: What year did she win player of the year?
Paige: [thinks hard] 2019?
Maddy: Good job! Where was the ranked in the class of 2021?
Paige: Number one.
Maddy: What year did she get her first collegiate start?
Paige: What year? Freshman year.
Maddy: What slogan did her mom’s t-shirt have on it at the championship game?
Paige: How about we fudd around and find out.
Maddy: What WNBA team drafted her mom?
Paige: Ooo that’s a tough one. Was it a team that no longer exists?
Maddy: Yes.
Paige: I wanna say…. was it like, The Sting?
[someone off-camera says Sacramento]
Paige: Sacramento! what’s the team?
Maddy: Monarchs?
Paige: The Monarchs, yeah
Maddy: What college basketball team did her Dad play for?
Paige: American University.
Maddy: What basketball player was she named after?
Paige: Jennifer Azzi
Maddy: What award did she win for national championship performing?
Paige: MOP.
Maddy: What does her phone case say on it?
Paige: It says… [acts like she’s thinking] Paige Bueckers’ girlfriend?
Maddy: Girlfriend reveal?
Paige: Azzi Fudd.

The comments of the clip were flooded with ecstasy, delight and enthusiasm.

“Bro never did I ever think GIRLFRIEND would come out of Paige’s mouth,” wrote Amber.

“This interview deserves a raise… I dream for nights like this,” wrote cbthatgirl.

Former teammate Nalyssa Smith, who used to play for the Wings with Paige and with Smith’s girlfriend Dijonai Carrington before being traded mid-season to the Aces, commented, “awwww my baby’s all grown up.”

The reaction vids came flooding in:

Paige and Azzi join a strong legion of lesbian couples in which both people in the couple are excellent basketball players and at least one is currently or formerly of the WNBA.

Finally, an embarrassment of riches for me personally: Paige chatting with the Stud Budz on the orange carpet. We dreamed of days like these for a long while, after all.

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But 85% of the league’s players aren’t chosen as All-Stars—and despite the growing sponsorship opportunities in women’s sports, many players still must figure out what comes after their professional careers. Rasheeda Clark is a former WNBA player who has found excellence off the court, in a very different field: fast-food franchising.

Clark played D1 basketball at Pepperdine, played for USA Basketball, and was drafted in the WNBA’s third round in 2001 (she’d been expected to be a first-round pick, but suffered an injury her senior year). Between 2001 and 2003, she played for three WNBA teams—the Portland Fire, the Charlotte Sting, and the Connecticut Sun. Her time of play coincided with a change in fortunes for the WNBA as teams began folding following financial restructuring of team ownership. Of those three teams, only the Connecticut Sun is still around—although Portland’s new WNBA franchise will start play in 2026 with the same name in homage to the city’s first.

Clark’s injuries—and the WNBA’s low player salaries, around $37,000 at the time, she says—ultimately led her to leave the sport. She started looking elsewhere for the satisfaction she got from basketball’s teamwork and leadership opportunities. As an athlete, she felt she was sometimes at a disadvantage breaking into the business world; while her fellow students were interning and exploring job fairs, she had been training and traveling for games. She got into retail operations, and then was chosen for PepsiCo’s famed management training program, which helped her gain more formal experience—her business version of “training camp.”

Courtesy of Flynn Wendy’s

Today she is the president of Flynn Wendy’s, the Wendy’s segment of the largest franchisee operator in the U.S. She oversees more than 300 Wendy’s locations, almost 10,000 employees—and $724 million in annual sales. She’s one of seven presidents within the Flynn Group, which also runs franchising operations for Applebee’s, Arby’s, Panera, Pizza Hut, Planet Fitness, and Taco Bell.

Post-retirement, today’s athletes are pursuing a range of paths, from podcasting and sports commentating, to investing and startups, to coaching and team ownership. Players are eager for more former athletes to work in league offices, too. For Clark, that didn’t feel like an option at the time. “It was almost like I had to cleanse my system of it,” she remembers. “I would have continued to try to be on a team or go, ‘Maybe I’ll give it one more shot.’ For me, it wasn’t an option. But those are very viable avenues for current players.”

She urges corporations to recognize athletes’ unique skill sets—helping those who wish to enter new industries to make the jump as she did. Athletes have a “die-hard mindset,” she says. At the same time, they know that “no one victory is won by the individual effort of one player on the team,” she says. “You’re always collaborating, learning the roles of other players on the court in order to be successful.”

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ALSO IN THE HEADLINES

– PBS fights back. Congress is expected to vote this week on a proposal that would end federal support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes funds to NPR, PBS, and local public media across the country. The impending deadline has led to an influx of ads, meetings with local officials, and media appearances to garner lawmaker support. New York Times. 

– Abortion travel. A provision of President Trump’s domestic spending bill that prevents Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics from billing services to Medicaid could have a devastating effect on abortion travel, as clinics in states that have become abortion havens are most at risk of major funding losses and even closing health centers. The statute is temporarily blocked as it moves through the courts. The 19th

– Citi celebration. Citigroup, led by CEO Jane Fraser, shocked analysts with high second-quarter results that dramatically outperformed the market. The company’s net income of $4.02 billion climbed 25% from the same quarter last year. Citigroup said in a presentation on Tuesday that it now expects $84 billion in revenue for the full year, a figure that is on the high end of the bank’s previous guidance. CNBC

– Female-led society. Scientists have discovered evidence of one of the oldest known matrilineal societies at a settlement based in the Shandong province of eastern China. The site, named “Fujia” after a village in the province, dates to around 2750 B.C. to 2500 B.C. and, researchers say, is a sign of how norms people today consider set in stone can change. Wall Street Journal

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Disney president of global advertising Rita Ferro is now chair of the board of directors for the Ad Council, succeeding YouTube VP, Americas Tara Walpert Levy. 

Lyft appointed Dana Rasmussen as chief people officer. She most recently served as the chief people and culture officer at Stitch Fix.

March Capital, a venture growth firm, appointed Melissa Montan as vice president of platform and marketing. She most recently served as senior vice president at HSBC Innovation Banking.

Zum, a student transportation provider, hired JoAnn Covington as general counsel. She most recently was the chief legal officer at Glydways.  

ON MY RADAR

The work from home gender gap is wider than ever as women continue to resist return-to-office efforts Fortune

She helped launch COVID-19’s vaccine in the depths of the pandemic. Now, she’s planning her next act Business Insider

Men might be the key to an American baby boom The Atlantic

PARTING WORDS

“I don’t not care; I just don’t carry.”

— Singer Lizzo on how her self-worth has evolved as a public figure