In 2015, the number of out players was 18. Williams added: “We had to have some hard conversations about gay pride. In the 2019 Women’s World Cup, there were 40 out gay, lesbian and bisexual women 38 players, one coach and a trainer. “We wish we had done more to show our support for gay pride month as a team,” Mewis said. Washington Post reporter Molly Hensley-Clancey captured the exchange.
In a new interview with soccer writer Grant Wahl, Mewis and Williams say they wish they spoke up more fervently in support of LGBTQ rights. Now, USWNT and Courage stars Sam Mewis and Lynn Williams, both of whom played with Hinkle, are expressing regret for their silence. But her team was much more much more tolerant - at least publicly. Hinkle’s words rightfully prompted an uproar in the LGBTQ sports community, and fans of the Portland Thors, another NWSL club, took to booing the defender for her anti-gay views. women’s national team, because her devout Christian faith prevented her from wearing a special jersey to commemorate LGBTQ pride. Okay, there Now get out, looking like a gay icon doesn’t just. The team decided that they were all going to go to the parade and make it the best first pride for Y/N. Defender Jaelene Hinkle revealed she decided not to play for the U.S. The team had been discussing an upcoming pride parade in the city where they were having camp, and Y/N admitted to Ashlyn that she had never been to a pride parade before. Three years ago, members of the NWSL’s North Carolina Courage found themselves in the center of the debate about LGBTQ inclusion in sports on the eve of Pride Month.