Everyone Watches Dyke Sports: Queer Histories of New York Liberty Basketball

On View: July 27 – September 28, 2025

Everyone Watches Dyke Sports celebrates the New York Liberty’s lesbian fans. 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. Twenty-nine years later, the WNBA is more popular than ever. New York City threw a ticker tape parade after the Liberty won their first championship in 2024. Their mascot, Ellie the Elephant, is a celebrity in her own right. 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 league’s history.
Everyone Watches Dyke Sports was curated by a group of Liberty fans at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, a community-based archive in Brooklyn. The exhibit will be on display at the Barclays Center for the Liberty’s annual PRIDE game on July 25. After the game, the exhibit will have a more extended run at the LGBT Community Center National History Archive. Come to The Center Archive to cheer on the lesbian histories of the defending champs.

Presented in Partnership with: Lesbian Herstory Archives