Carole Baskin has come out as bisexual, saying she discovered her sexuality at the height of the AIDS crisis. Baskin became famous for the Netflix series Tiger King.
It tells the true story of how redneck big cat breeder Joe Exotic plotted to kill her. However, in an interview with Pink News, she reveals she discovered a very different face to the LGBT+ community in the 1980s.
She was engaged to a psychologist working with people struggling with the AIDS pandemic: ‘I was engaged to a psychologist, and that was his entire field, dealing with the LGBT+ community. ‘It was during the period when AIDS was just wreaking havoc around the world, and people were losing their loved ones, and so I became very close to people in that community then. ‘I