"i'm Teaching All The Younger Lesbians How To Be Gay" – Wnba Legend Shared Bizarre Story From Liberty Locker Room

Lately, there has been growing sentiment that the WNBA, with its play at its peak so far, should focus more on what happens on the court.

Stories like Sue Wicks’ make that quite hard. Doesn’t mean they aren’t worth following, though.

Sue Wicks made WNBA history

The WNBA tipped off in 1997. Back then, the New York Liberty were one of the league’s marquee franchises. Wicks was on that very first roster. She stayed in New York through 2002. A six-year veteran, she never played for another team.

In her final season, Wicks made history. A reporter from “Time Out New York” asked her directly if she was gay. She said yes. No WNBA player had ever come out publicly before.

Being that upfront about it showed Wicks was never one to mince words. The same held true in June 2026. Back then, she opened up about the intricacies of WNBA locker rooms during an interview with “them.”

Becky Hammon discovered a Liberty fan-fiction series

Those early Liberty teams were loaded. Teresa Weatherspoon. Rebecca Lobo. Kym Hampton. And a young Becky Hammon, who later broke ground with the San Antonio Spurs as the first full-time female assistant coach in NBA history. Then went on to lead the Las Vegas Aces.

That group in a locker room? Lots of laughs. Never more than the day Hammon walked over to Wicks with something she’d come across online.

“Someone was writing a whole fantasy series about the New York Liberty [players] all being gay,” Wicks recounted. “And I was with Rebecca Lobo and we were dying.”

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Wicks became the team’s fictional mentor

The story came with a whole plot, characters and all. Wicks herself was cast as the veteran. The younger players came to her for dating advice.

“I’m like the matriarch and I’m teaching all the younger lesbians how to be gay,” Wicks recalled. “They were asking me for dating advice, position advice, and the young ones wanted to learn from me.”

Wicks had no idea how the author came up with that version of her. She certainly wasn’t alone in that. And she embraced it anyway.

“I loved it,” Wicks said.

Others evidently did too.

“We’d be almost peeing our pants laughing at how good this was,” Sue recalled.

A different kind of team bonding

Every NBA fan knows the locker room can get wild. Fights break out. Pranks go too far. And there’s surely worse stuff that never left the building. Maybe it will one day, when some guy retires and spills it all on one of those many podcasts.

Compared to that, this was nothing. A few players passing around fan fiction about themselves and cracking up. It could’ve even been good for team chemistry.

The plot itself? From Wicks’ description, it was more playful than anything. That makes it kind of wholesome, if you think about it.

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This story was originally published by Basketball Network on Oct 28, 2026, where it first appeared in the WNBA section. Add Basketball Network as a Preferred Source by clicking here.