US soccer star Lori Lindsey sent this message out to her nearly 24,000 Twitter followers this week: 'You're going to need to sit down for this one! It's going to come as a real shock.' A midfielder for the US National Team who plays for the Western New York Flash of Women's Premiere Soccer League Elite League,Lindsey was referring to a candid interview published Wednesday (5 September) during which she publicly states that she is a lesbian and shares other details of her life.