When Billy Jean King was just 12 years old, she picked up a tennis racket for the first

time and decided that she wanted to be the number one player in the world.

And as you know, to fast forward to the end of the story, that is exactly what she did.

With 39 Grand Slam career titles to her name,

she's considered the mother of modern sports. She didn't just change tennis. She changed all sports

for all people, which, by the way, was the plan from the beginning. It was another thing she

looked around again at 12 years old and decided.

I was just daydreaming one day and realized that everybody who played tennis wore white shoes

and white clothes and played with white balls and everybody who played was white. And I asked

myself, where is everybody else? So that was my moment that I dedicate the rest of my life

to fighting for equality.

Everything I've done will go back to that moment, that epiphany at 12 years old.

Along the way, the fight for equality led her to the famed Battle of the Sexes.

That was her 1973 tennis match against Bobby Riggs.

An estimated 50 million people worldwide watched Billy Jean King win that day, and it's

considered a milestone in terms of the public's acceptance of female athletes and a victory

for the women's rights movement in general.

Today, at 77 years old, Billy Jean King remains a fierce advocate for gender equality, and she's just

published in autobiography. That is called All In, and it's out now. From the Advocate magazine

in partnership with Glad, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is LGBTQNA with Billy Jean King.

So just as we often say how much has changed for queer people in the last 50 years,

your book is a reminder that that statement is also true for women.

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