Meet The 42 Gay Women and Non-Binary Soccer Players of the Tokyo Summer Olympics
Everyone knows gays cannot get enough soccer/football, and with the 2020 Tokyo Games kicking off its soccer/football matches today, we thought it’d be a perfect time to round up the Olympics women’s soccer gay players and non-binary players. As Outsports has documented brilliantly, there are at least 162 openly gay athletes in Tokyo this year, an Olympic recored! And, according to our research, 42 of those athletes are women and non-binary soccer players, which we have helpfully listed for you below with adorable/swoony photos!
Just a quick editorial note: While most of Autostraddle’s writers are based in the U.S., we realize we have loads of readers around the world. So for this year’s Olympics, we are trying hard to hit the international gay highlights. Obviously U.S. media skews heavily (almost 100%) U.S.-centric, so if we’ve missed anyone that should be on this list, or anything comes up you think we should cover, hit me (@theheatherhogan) or Natalie (@natthedem) up on Twitter, or drop a note in the A+ Priority Contact box (in the right sidebar on the Autostraddle home page) and we’ll try our best to make sure we mention it. The players below are listed alphabetically by last name.
Feature image Elsa/Getty Images / Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images
Andressa Alves (Brazil)
Bárbara Barbosa (Brazil)
Yenny Acuña Berrios (Chile)
Keisha Buchanan (Canada)
Marta da Silva (Brazil)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJn_hv4l29K/
Rachel Daly (Great Britain)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQqnHTOBMUZ/
Tierna Davidson (USA)
Anouk Dekker (Netherlands)
Christiane Endler (Chile)
Abby Erceg (New Zealand)
Magda Eriksson (Sweden)
Sisca Folkertsma (Netherlands)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQhAqbag49-/
Adrianna Franch (USA)
Emily Gielnik (Australia)
Lina Hurtig (Sweden)
Letícia Izidoro (Brazil)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQr0vNUrcbI/
Sam Kerr (Australia)
Fran Kirby (Great Britain)
Stephanie Labbé (Canada)
Hedvig Lindahl (Sweden)
Chloe Logarzo (Australia)
Erin McLeod (Canada)
Teagan Micah (Australia)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_d1esUB_KA/
Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands)
Kelley O’Hara (USA)
Fernanda Pinilla (Chile)
Megan Rapinoe (USA)
Aline Reis (Brazil)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQBXrJWpdmd/
Jill Scott (Great Britain)
Caroline Seger (Sweden)
Kailen Sheridan (Canada)
Sherida Spitse (Netherlands)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CO4n_8TJ7Nu/
Demi Stokes (Great Britain)
Carly Telford (Great Britain)
Daniëlle van de Donk (Netherlands)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ8uZv8skLC/
Shanice Van De Sanden (Netherlands)
Stefanie Van Der Gragt (Netherlands)
Merel Van Dongen (Netherlands)
Hannah Wilkinson (New Zealand)
Tameka Yallop (Australia)
Formiga (Brazil)
Quinn (Canada)
If we missed any Olympics Women’s Soccer gay or non-binary players, let us know!