The Stoop Pigeon Is Creating a New Home for Women’s Sports Fans in Philadelphia
A new space dedicated to women’s sports is coming to Center City this summer. The Stoop Pigeon, created by Watch Party PHL, has secured a 2,500 square foot location at 337–341 South Broad Street at the corner of Broad and Pine. When it opens in June, the venue will become Philadelphia’s first dedicated women’s sports […]
Blazers Sports Bar in Brooklyn: A Women-Owned Sports Bar Centering Women’s Sports and Queer Community
Blazers Sports Bar has only been open for three months, but it’s already shifting what a sports bar can look and feel like in New York City. Located at 308 Bedford Ave in Williamsburg, Blazers is Brooklyn’s first women-owned sports bar. The screens are tuned to women’s games. The crowd shows up loud. And the […]
Slo Pitch is the Lesbian Baseball Show Bringing Lesbian Sports Culture to TV
There is an entire ecosystem of queer life that rarely makes it to television. It lives on local softball fields. In dugout group chats. In the easy familiarity of teammates who become chosen family over the course of a season. Queer representation on screen has expanded in recent years, but lesbian-centered sports stories remain surprisingly […]
Congratulations to Two of Our Favorite Team USA Olympians
Congratulations. To queer people in the 2026 Olympics. To women’s sports. To the kind of representation that feels bold and bright and impossible not to celebrate. At this year’s Olympic Games, two Team USA legends got engaged and it is one of those moments that makes you stop and think about how much it would […]
Love on Ice: The Lesbian Couples Making Our Hearts Swell at the Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics are already an emotional rollercoaster. Years of training for seconds on the clock. Careers are defined by inches. The highest highs. The most gutting lows. And for LGBTQ fans, there is something extra layered into it all. Representation. Visibility. Love showing up exactly where it used to be hidden. We’ve already featured […]
The LGBTQ Olympians You’ll Want to Follow Before, During, and After the Games
Every four years, we all become experts in sports we never watch. Suddenly we care deeply about edge control in figure skating, the difference between moguls and slopestyle, and how, exactly, skeleton athletes steer a sled with their chin. The Winter Olympics have a way of pulling us in like that. Group chats light up. […]
What Kristie Mewis and Sam Kerr’s Wedding Says About Queer Visibility Right Now
Kristie Mewis and Sam Kerr’s wedding didn’t just make headlines. It took over queer timelines. The photos were everywhere. The outfits. The joy. The familiar faces of queer athletes, friends, and chosen family are showing up fully and fabulously. It was one of those moments that didn’t need context to resonate. You saw it, and […]
Two Anti-LGBTQ Nations. One World Cup Pride Match. A Global Conversation Begins.
Against the backdrop of Pride Weekend, this unexpected pairing transforms a single match into a statement about visibility, safety, and the right to exist. Seattle’s World Cup organizers always envisioned the city’s Pride Match as a celebration. A moment where the world’s biggest sporting event meets a city with a long standing history of LGBTQ+ […]
Leah Williamson Just Hard-Launched Her Girlfriend Elle Smith and the Internet Lost It
Move over, soft-launch era — England captain Leah Williamson just hard-launched her girlfriend, former Miss USA Elle Smith, and queer fans everywhere are thriving. For months, the rumors were swirling. Were those matching vacation pics just a coincidence? Was that birthday paddleboard selfie a wink at something more? And why did their Instagram comments read […]
From Liberty Games to Late Nights: Women’s Sports Bars Are Changing NYC’s Queer Scene
The other night at a Liberty playoff game, I looked around Barclays Center and couldn’t believe how queer the crowd felt. Everywhere I turned, there were couples holding hands, groups of queer women in Liberty gear, and friends buzzing with the kind of energy that felt more like Pride weekend than a basketball game. It […]