The Most Awesome LGBTQ Women In History

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian and American film actress who was dubbed the most beautiful woman in the world – but she was so much more than that. She was also a tough-as-anything feminist and starred in the controversial film Ecstasy (1933) where she had the first ever on-screen…climax…and spent much of the film romping around in her birthday suit.

Lamarr, a proud bisexual who fled from her husband in a time where woman rarely divorced, was also a brilliant inventor. She invented a jam-proof radio guidance system for torpedoes to be used in WWII. Hedy’s frequency-hopping technology eventually became what we know today as WiFi. Thank you, Hedy!

Tallulah Bankhead

Much like Hedy Lamarr, Talluhlah Bankhead was also a bisexual American actor that was romantically linked to some famous flings. She was rumored to have dated Greta Garbo, Billie Holiday, Marlene Dietrich, and Patsy Kelly who confirmed their sexual relationship.

The radical feminist starred in many movies in the early 1930s. During that time she would throw risqué parties at her Hollywood home that were described as having “no boundaries.” It may have been because of this that the actress contracted the STI that would almost kill her. Bankhead had an emergency hysterectomy and weighed a mere 70 lbs. when she left the hospital. She told her doctor, “Don’t think this has taught me a lesson!” Never apologize, Bankhead! Never!