14 Facts About Pat Bond

Pat Bond was an American actress who starred on stage, television and movies.

Pat Bond was openly lesbian and in many cases she was the first gay woman people saw on stage.

Pat Bond and her family moved to Davenport, Iowa, when she was a teenager.

Pat Bond later equated this experience to "a finishing school where they finished me".

Pat Bond acted as a nurse for soldiers returning from the South Pacific and served in occupied Japan.

Pat Bond earned a BA and MA in theater from San Francisco State College.

Pat Bond began acting on stage and performed in many plays, but did not become nationally known until footage from an interview with her appeared in a landmark documentary about gay people, titled Word Is Out.

Pat Bond played the legendary Gertrude Stein and recounted humorous stories of Gertrude's life in Paris with her companion Alice B Toklas.

Pat Bond was on the board of directors of Theater Rhinoceros in San Francisco and directed a number of plays there.

Pat Bond made a guest appearance on the sitcom Designing Women, playing one of Julia Sugarbaker's favorite school teachers who comes for a visit, and quickly wears out her welcome.

Pat Bond later said she regretted leaving her lover in the Corps, but did so to protect her lover.

Pat Bond knew that if she stayed, her lover would be more likely to be testified against.

In 1990, Pat Bond was honored by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in recognition of her Army tenure at the end of World War II.

Pat Bond died of emphysema on Christmas Eve 1990 in Marin County, California, aged 65.