You're talking of a time when "ladies" were not supposed to have sexual feelings. Annie Sullivan, Helen's teacher, (a/k/a/ "The Miracle Worker") spent her adult life, minus one year of marriage, constantly with Helen, including sharing a bed, but there was never any intimation of romance. read more
Helen Keller herself never spoke out identifying herself as one thing or another so we can never really know. She had a romantic endeavor with Peter Fagan, a man, so most likely not, but it's impossible to know what she really felt without her own words. read more
She was a suffragist, a pacifist, a Wilson opposer, a radical socialist, and a birth control supporter. In 1915, she founded Helen Keller International, a non-profit organization for preventing blindness. read more