 She befriended Sigmund Freud during the 1930s , and became his patient in order to understand and express her bisexuality . H.D. married once , and undertook a number of relationships with both men and women . She was unapologetic about her sexuality , and thus became an icon for both the LGBT rights and feminist movements when her poems , plays , letters and essays were rediscovered during the 1970s and 1980s . 
