{"id":77440,"date":"2025-08-12T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77440\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:37:07","slug":"the-wnbas-lgbtq-fan-base-and-the-golden-state-valkyries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77440\/","title":{"rendered":"The WNBA&#8217;s LGBTQ+ fan base and the Golden State Valkyries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this edition of Your Call, we&#8217;ll find out how the WNBA evolved into one of the most queer welcoming sports leagues in the world. <\/p>\n<p>With the Golden State Valkyries kicking off their first season, we\u2019re watching as the new team melds with the bay area&#8217;s diverse LGBTQ+ communities. How&#8217;s the relationship going so far?<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyndseydarcangelo.com\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lyndsey D&#8217;Arcangelo<\/a>, journalist, women&#8217;s sports advocate, and author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/frankie-de-la-cretaz\/hail-mary\/9781645036623\/?lens=bold-type-books\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women\u2019s Football League<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Erin Lim, producer of KALW\u2019s podcast series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalw.org\/bounce-the-valkyries-first-season-in-the-bay\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bounce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Resources:<\/p>\n<p>Just Women\u2019s Sports: <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/this-is-peoples-truth-the-wnbas-lgbtq-evolution\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The WNBA\u2019s LGBTQ+ Evolution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Refinery29: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/wnba-players-queer-fandom\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The WNBA Has Brought Lesbian Lust Mainstream. Now What?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/21\/ride-of-the-valkyries-how-the-wnba-finally-found-a-home-in-the-bay-area\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ride of the Valkyries: how the WNBA finally found a home in the Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this edition of Your Call, we&#8217;ll find out how the WNBA evolved into one of the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-77440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}