Lesbian sports pioneer Billie Jean King would, in due course, take her victory beyond the tennis court, to the front lines of equality for women and LGBT people alike. But first, there was her ...

Has won 39 Grand Slam championships overall in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, including 12 Grand Slam singles titles. Is the founder and first president of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).

Billie Jean King has made history once again. The 81-year-old out lesbian tennis legend has become the first woman to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the new sports entertainment ...

The new movie Battle of the Sexes tells the story of the famous 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and retired men’s champion Bobby Riggs. Emma Stone plays King at 29 as she leads the fight ...

The 90 days that shook women’s tennis arrived with little warning in the late spring of 1981. Billie Jean King, the tour’s iconic founder along with eight other women a decade earlier, had just been ...