Frida will always be known as a fierce individual who wasn’t afraid to express her sexuality.  When Frida married Diego, she had no idea what world she was entering into.  She must have felt like Alice dropping down the rabbit hole.  For Frida, Diego’s bohemian art world was this strange, weird place she probably considered like some free-thinking Wonderland, filled with crazy people and peculiar creatures.  It’s probably right here where Frida discovered the full extent of her sexuality.  While her husband openly cheated on her, she began to be seen cavorting with more and more women. Frida was  a woman of great paradoxes.  She kept both women's and men's clothes in her closet.  She was married to Diego, but she loved his mistresses.  They liked to drink and dance with each other at popular Mexico City cantinas.  On these nights,  Frida was known to drink “like a mariachi.”  This means, I suppose, anything goes.  Frida hid her bisexuality from no one.

The cantina scene in Frida captures the artist's free-wheeling, free-stepping nature. Here Frida dances the sensual tango with a visiting female Italian photographer right in front of her husband.  The two women are all over the dance floor.  Their hands are all over each other.  The song is called “La Alcoba Azul – The Blue Bedroom.”  As Frida and her partner are dancing, you hear a singer in the background belt out these lyrics: “Vuelve a mí  Ámame sin luz En nuestra alcoba azul Donde no hubo sol para nosotros.” Come back to me.  Love me in the dark… At the end of the dance, the women embrace to share a French kiss to the applause of the crowd.  Even Diego looks on with love and admiration.

Frida was a woman who went all the way – both in her art and in her life.  Her sexuality is everywhere.  Especially in the movie's cantina scene.   In many of her self-portraits she emphasizes her femininity.  In Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (se above) she shows her manly side.   For Frida, her self-portraits helped her explore her own identity.  Her creation Cropped Hair follows her heart-crushing discovery that her husband was sleeping with her sister. This clearly is her angry side.