For further reading, check out Queers in History by Keith Stern, Stanwyck by Axel Madsen, Hollywood Lesbians by Boze Hadleigh, Five O’Clock Angel by St. If you’re interested in finding out more about these women, there are several books that go into more detail. Romanced: Katharine Hepburn and a policewoman Most Famous For: Born Yesterday (she won the Oscar for Best Actress) Most Famous For: Meet John Doe, Walk on the Wild Side (she played a lesbian character) Romanced: Martha Raye, director Dorothy Arzner, Marilyn Monroe Most Famous For: Mildred Pierce, inspiring Mommie Dearest Most Famous For: Gone With the Wind, The Hot Heiress Romanced: Marjorie "Ma Kettle" Main, Maude Adams Most Famous For: Meet John Doe, Little Women
Here’s a small list of actresses with whom we share a kinship. While we know about several already ( Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Greta Garbo) there are several others who we can claim as well. The recent discovery that Vivien Leigh had several female lovers adds her to an ever-growing list of talented actresses that were married to men but involved with women in the early days of Hollywood. You probably never wondered about their sexual orientation because of their marriages to the opposite sex.
Here’s a list that might reveal to you that some of your favorite movie stars or musicians were gay. The out playersĬorrection: An earlier version listed Michelle Heyman from Australia, who is not playing this year.It seems like every time there’s a new biography about a past Hollywood star or starlet, we get to know a little more about their sexual history and it involves both sexes. A lot of famous gay men married women before coming out as gay others married women because they couldn’t live the gay lifestyle. In some cases there are players “everyone knows” is LGBTQ but without any public declaration - in the media or social media by the player - we do not add them. Please let us know if we missed anyone - you can tweet us or email us at and please provide a link to where the player discussed her sexual orientation.Įditor’s note: This number fluctuates based on reader tips. In 2015, the number of out participants was 18.
One engaged couple - Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger - play for the U.S. The list of publicly out women at the 2019 Women’s World Cup stands at 40. That make the achievement of these women all the more important. Meanwhile, would-be female soccer players around the struggle to even make it onto the field because of institutional sexism that plagues countries around the world. Soccer Federation for “tolerating a two-tiered, gender-based workplace, with its male soccer players enjoying better travel, superior playing conditions and even more food.” World Cup player Megan Rapinoe is part of a class-action lawsuit against the U.S.
While there may be more out women than men in professional soccer (there were no out men at the 2018 World Cup), another disparity also exists between the two: The 2019 Women’s World Cup prize money is $30 million - 7.5% of the Men’s World Cup prize. “While the men’s professional game has been reluctant to be fully inclusive and supportive of anyone within the game who identifies as LGBT, it’s generally regarded that football is much more accepting of women who are lesbian or bisexual,” Lindsay England, founder of Just A Ball Game, an organization that works to end anti-LGBT bias in soccer, told Outsports, It’s likely there are more lesbian and bisexual women on these teams than we know about, especially since some participating countries - like Nigeria, Cameroon and Jamaica punish homosexuality with prison time - and other countries still struggle with varying degrees of societal homophobia that may keep players closeted. Among them are 40 out gay, lesbian and bisexual women - 38 players, one coach and a trainer. The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup is underway in France, featuring 24 teams.