Content creator Angela Perry recently posted to Instagram that it’s great to have a girlfriend who also loves women’s basketball. The odds were good for that considering they met at an Unrivaled game this past winter. It’s also great as the WNBA celebrates Pride Month.
“The league has been progressively more supportive of the fact that there are lesbians that play,” noted Perry. “The fandom enjoys whatever bits and pieces of players’ lives that they give us. I don’t know a whole lot about NBA players’ personal lives because they don’t really talk about it, but the WNBA players do. They have social media, they talk about it, they interact with fans.”
Over the past year, Perry’s content on Instagram and TikTok has grown. She even showed that she still possesses the hoops skills that made her a successful college basketball player at Fayetteville State University. Although she lives in Florida, Perry is a season ticket holder for the Atlanta Dream and also travels to see many other WNBA teams, including the Dallas Wings, Washington Mystics and Golden State Valkyries. “There are so many changes with the CBA (collective bargaining agreement), some teams are completely new and some teams like the Dream just have a few changes,” Perry said.
This WNBA season includes two expansion teams: the Portland Fire and the Toronto Tempo, both of which have performed well so far. The Golden State Valkyries, which had a stunning debut in 2025, continue to be a force. Perry’s videos with opinions that can be debated get enthusiastic responses. “Anytime I point out something that people are thinking and wanting to say … that gets a lot of engagement,” she said.
On a not so positive note, Perry has spoken about the dearth of Black female coaches in the WNBA. “As soon as the powers that be saw how profitable the WNBA was headed towards and could be, it was like ‘now we have to be serious about these positions and get the women out of them,’” she said. “That’s how it feels as a fan … I definitely don’t say this to say that men can’t coach women; we know that is not the case, but it would be nice to see diversity … Unrivaled is [a] little bit more mirroring what the general population of the players looks like. There is also some cultural nuance to a woman coaching women.”
