Judy Hill Nelson is an author

Author

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 best known for her 1983-1991 romance (while married) with and eventual palimony

Palimony

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 suit against women's tennis

Tennis

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 star Martina Navratilova. After their break-up, Ms. Nelson authored the books Love Match: Nelson vs. Navratilova, chronicling her relationship with the tennis star, and Choices: My Journey After Leaving my Husband for Martina and a Lesbian Life, chronicling her coming out

Coming out

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 as a lesbian

Lesbian

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 in the mid-1980s. She is the mother of two sons.

In 1992 Nelson began a relationship with another American lesbian author, Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown

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 of Virginia. Rita Mae had also dated Martina Navratilova back in 1979. Due to their two very different careers and Navratilova's affair with Nancy Lieberman

Nancy Lieberman

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, the relationship ended in 1981.