Sean Webby at the Mercury News looks at gay sports fans.

It is widely known that women's basketball has a large gay fan base. In 2002, a group of lesbians staged a "kiss-in" to protest their perception that the WNBA's New York Liberty had not acknowledged them.

Doris Owyang, 40, a San Francisco journalist, said her friends tell her, "Why go to a bar when I can go to a Stanford basketball game and see an ocean of lesbians?"