I too have been to many Atlanta Dream games (been watching the WNBA since the inception with Cynthia Coop) and I was being hyperbolic for comic relief in relating the stands to Queer Eye etc. However, the fact remains that the crowds at those games did have more than your average LGBQT relationships and supporters, way more. I live in Atlanta so I see this shit at a rate that the average Midwest (my original comment) fan is not used to seeing. I'll disregard the rest of your comment because it has no relevance to what I was commenting on...I have been to WNBA games, and the stands didn't look like that at any of them.
My sons weren't impressionable, nor were my daughters, at least not from seeing shit outside the house...More choice of gayness resulting from inside the home than from seeing it outside.
Perhaps your friends have the issue; instead of watching a sports event, they worry about what happens outside the gym.
Would your friends not have gone to a Luther concert ?
What about James Cleveland
Maybe not go to a church because the choir director