Pat Bond (February 27, 1925 – December 24, 1990) was an American actress who starred on stage, television and movies.
She also 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 (1978).
[1] Her performance in this film, in which she spoke comically and nostalgically about her experiences in the Army, launched her career as an actress and storyteller.
Her other well-known stage shows were Conversations with Pat Bond, centering mainly on reminiscences of her youth; Murder in the WAC, focusing on the Army's lesbian purge in the late 1940; and Lorena Hickock and Eleanor Roosevelt: A Love Story.
She 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.
[5] During this period, many lesbians testified against each other in trial but Bond married a gay GI soldier to avoid prosecution.
[6] In 1990, Pat was honored by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in recognition of her Army tenure at the end of World War II.