Notable Lesbians
This week’s Notable Lesbian is:
Martina Navratilova
October 18, 1956 –
Martina Navratilova is a former World No. 1 women’s tennis player. She 
won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including 9 consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon a record 9 times. In 1981, shortly after being granted U.S. citizenship, Navratilova came out publicly about her sexual orientation. She said she feared her sexual orientation might disrupt her application for American citizenship following her defection from Czechoslovakia, a country in which, she points out, “gays were sent to insane asylums and lesbians never came out of the closet.”
Interesting tid bit:
In 1972 at the age of 15, Navratilova won the Czech republic national tennis championship. In her autobiography, Being Myself, she says that she had romantic crushes on teachers of both sexes and, later, felt strongly attracted to other female tennis players. But she did not realize that these attractions had a sexual dimension until she was 18 years old, when she had her first same-sex relationship.
Billie Jean King said in 2006, “She [Navratilova] is the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who’s ever lived.”
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More Notable Lesbians
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Martina Navratilova, women’s tennis player, notable lesbians, Billie Jean King, Wimbledon
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