On May 1, 1981, Billie Jean Kg publicly me out as gay
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- MAY 1, 1981: THE DAY BILLIE JEAN KG PUBLICLY ME OUT AS GAY
- TENNIS LEGEND BILLIE JEAN KG SLAMS RON DESANTIS OVER FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW: ‘HE PROBABLY HAS GAY KIDS HIS FAY’
MAY 1, 1981: THE DAY BILLIE JEAN KG PUBLICLY ME OUT AS GAY
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On May 1, 1981, Billie Jean Kg, driven by circumstanc, beme the first proment profsnal female athlete to publicly e out about her homosexualy. Bart’s lawyers thought this prciple uld also apply a homosexual relatnship and sought half of Billie Jean Kg’s earngs throughout the seven-year perd. Over the years, beme more mon for female athlet to be open about their homosexualy.
TENNIS LEGEND BILLIE JEAN KG SLAMS RON DESANTIS OVER FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW: ‘HE PROBABLY HAS GAY KIDS HIS FAY’
One of the first female tennis players Billie Jean Kg was a pneer for women's and LGBT rights. Is she gay? YES! Fd out all the tails about her Battle of the Sex match, marriage to Larry Kg, relatnship stat and how she paved the way for women to earn as much as men. * was billy jean king gay *
She knew she was gay. In the 70s, homosexualy was still crimalized many stat and close iends disuraged her om g out, pecially as her reer was boomg.
Although Billie had officially been out of the closet for 13 years, she didn’t tell her mother she was gay until she was 51. Her story shows that you n ce immense change even if you have to fight for ntrol at CEO and Print Sarah Kate Ellis explas to Refery29 that Kg wasn't always the out and proud gay woman she is today — and that's mostly bee of the polil climate of the time. That was when "thgs started to soar for her as an activist and an outwardly gay person, " Ellis Refery29's recent panel discsn wh Kg, Emma Stone, Valerie Faris, and Shonda Rhim, which was sponsored by Cizen Watch, Kg shared the moment she beme aware of the reprentatn issu wh tennis: "Everyone played whe sho, whe socks, whe cloth, played wh whe balls, and everyone who played was whe.