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Broadway-Love! LGBT Pioneer Billie Jean King Visits The Normal Heart by Broadway.com Staff

It was a moving evening on Broadway on April 23, when tennis legend and gay rights trailblazer Billie Jean King stopped by The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s raging and heart-wrenching drama about the early days of the AIDS epidemic in New York City. King became a household name after the famous 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match in which she defeated former champ Bobby Riggs, and in 1981 she bec…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:04PM on April 25, 2011

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