Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker Kissing at a Liberty Game Is Instant Lesbian History

Close enough: Welcome back, boygenius. Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker kissing on the Barclays Center Jumbotron at Wednesday night’s New York Liberty game may be one of the most lesbian events to have ever occurred — and like many lesbian events, it involved a baseball cap.Dacus and Baker, former boygenius bandmates who are now in a romantic relationship, attended the Liberty’s September 23 matchup against the Atlanta Dream, and while the home team might have technically lost, they also won in the sense that two queer Grammy-winning artists opted to do some PDA on their big screen.Social media footage shows that when the arena featured the pair for its regular “Celiberty Row” segment — in which the camera lasers in on famous people sitting courtside — Dacus and Baker turned to each other with almost-perfect synchronization and decided to deliver a tasteful smooch for the crowd.More of Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus at the New York Liberty vs Atlanta Dream game tonight in New York!via @mangoavosushi pic.twitter.com/JB6YRxkOJF— boygenius source (@boygeniussource) September 24, 2026 Judging from all that cheering, there’s about as much overlap between Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, and New York Liberty fans as you might expect. The Venn diagram is a circle, and that circle is crying at beautiful, lyrical music about the sapphic experience.Whether they know it or not, Baker and Dacus — who first shared they were dating in March of last year — are participating in a rich tradition of locking lips at Liberty games. Back in 2002, when LGBTQ+ acceptance within the WNBA was nowhere near the level it is today, a group of lesbian Liberty fans held a “kiss-in” protest at a game against the Miami Sol in an attempt to advocate for greater recognition from the league. Suffice it to say, thirty years after its founding, the WNBA is queerer than ever, with every team holding a Pride night and over a quarter of players identifying as LGBTQ+.In a cover story interview wi