The announcement of Sally Ri's ath ma her the first openly gay astront, albe posthumoly. Why are there no others?
Contents:
- SPACE IS GAY, AND HAS AN IMPORTANT LSON FOR US
- WHY AREN'T THERE ANY OPENLY GAY ASTRONTS?
- GAYS SPACE: 6 QUEER SCI-FI BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ
- HISTORY’S FIRST GAY ASTRONTWHY IS STEM SO STRAIGHT?KAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE COLLECTOR·3 M READ·AUG 31, 2020--SHARESALLY RI WAS THE FIRST AMERIN WOMAN AND FIRST GAY SPACESOURCE: WIKIMEDIASALLY RI MA HISTORY AS AMERI’S FIRST WOMAN SPACE ON 18TH JUNE 1983. HOWEVER, WAS ONLY AFTER HER ATH THAT BEME KNOWN THAT SHE WAS GAY.THERE WERE STUTNAL REASONS WHY RI, A PH.D. ASTROPHYSICS, CID NOT TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET DURG HER LIFETIME. SHE WAS JT 32 SHE WHEN TO WENT TO SPACE.DURG HER STT AT NASA, SHE WAS PART OF MANY FIRSTS.• SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO E THE ROBOT ARM SPACE• SHE WAS THE FIRST TO E THE ARM TO RETRIEVE A SATELLE• ON HER SEND FLIGHT, THE CHALLANR, SHE SPENT MORE THAN 343 HOURS SPACE• THIS FLIGHT WAS ALSO HISTORIL THE SENSE THAT WAS THE FIRST FLIGHT TO CLU MORE THAN ONE WOMAN. RI WAS ACPANIED BY KATHRYN D. SULLIVANWHY IS STEM SO STRAIGHT?QUEER STEM ORGANIZATNS: WORKPLACE DISADVANTAG FOR LGBT EMPLOYE STEM RELATED FERAL AGENCISOURCE: MDPIACRDG TO A STUDY NDUCTED UNRGRADUATE STUNTS WHO INTIFY AS LGBTQ ARE LS LIKELY TO NTUE THEIR STEM MAJORS¹. OBVLY, SCE THE STUNTS DROP OUT OF STEM AND DO NOT GO TO GRADUATE SCHOOLS, WE SEE FEWER LGBTQ FACULTY AND THE VIC CYCLE NTU. THIS RULTS A VERY WEAK SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR STUNTS INTIFYG AS SEXUAL MORI.NASA WAS NO EXCEPTN TO THIS DURG RI’S TIME THERE. BOTH NASA AND THE US ARY OPERATED ON “DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL” ( DADT) POLICY UP UNTIL 2011. THIS MEANT GAY SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN HAD TO REMA THE CLOSET OR RISK EXPULSN.61% OF THE ASTRONTS SELECTED BY NASA HAVE E OM ARY SERVICE². THGS WERE EVEN WORSE FOR ARY PERSONNEL — APART OM THE DADT POLICY, THE NSERVATIVE NATURE OF ARY HERAGE BED WH THE TAC STRS ON MANLS MA DIFFICULT FOR SERVICE PERSONNEL TO E OUT.US ASTRONTS ALL TRA HOTON TEXAS, WHERE UP UNTIL 2003 SODOMY LAWS REMAED BOOKS.WHY SALLY NEVER ME OUT OF THE CLOSET?
- ‘IS SPACE GAY?’
- GAY ASTRONTS: A FAL FRONTIER
- GAYS IN SPACE BOOKS
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- KEV SPACEY BREAKS DOWN TEARS DURG TTIMONY ABOUT HOW HE ME OUT AS GAY
- FUTURE ‘SCIENTIST’ PROCLAIMS SPACE IS ‘TOTALLY FAKE AND GAY’
- SPACE GAYS!!! (A BOOK REMENDATN LIST)
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
SPACE IS GAY, AND HAS AN IMPORTANT LSON FOR US
I set out to fd queer people who had an tense love for space and ask them if they thought space was gay, and om everyone I spoke to, I received a roundg YES. * space gay *
When my gay iends and I talk about a time “before we were gay, ” we’re referrg to the years before some betiful queer disturbance fundamentally changed what we believed was, for , wrten the stars. ” Inspired by his answer and my personal experienc, I set out to fd queer people who had an tense love for space and ask them if they thought space was gay, and om everyone I spoke to, I received a roundg YES.
WHY AREN'T THERE ANY OPENLY GAY ASTRONTS?
* space gay *
She says she is humbled by space, and believ the universe is gay bee ’s advertently “unterculture. Ivory intifi as gay and aromantic, and tied his terts back to the this of my article to scribe why he chose the plaarium path.
“It’s funny that, you know, unr the theme of ‘space is gay’... Only one is publicly known to have been gay or bisexual — Sally Ri — and she kept private until her ath, yterday (July 23), when her obuary on the Sally Ri Science anizatn's webse stated that Ri was survived by Tam O'Shghnsy, her "partner of 27 years. "I hope mak easier for kids growg up gay that they know that another one of their hero was like them, " Bear Ri, who intifi as gay, told Buzzfeed Rights Campaign print Chad Griff ncurred, tellg Buzzfeed, "The fact that Sally Ri was a lbian will further help round out Amerins' unrstandg of the ntributns of LGBT Amerins to our untry.
GAYS SPACE: 6 QUEER SCI-FI BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ
Celebrate Pri wh some of our favore gays space! Here are six sci-fi books wh queer reprentatn you won't want to miss. * space gay *
But the lack of even one openly gay or lbian astront the history of Amerin spaceflight may reflect the culture at the NASA astront office. Still, the fact remas that no astronts have ever e out as gay or lbian, while many astronts clu mentn of their hbands, wiv or children on their NASA official bgraphy pag. )Cassutt said even though he spects there are or have been some other gay or lbian astronts, and spe of the progrs ma on LGBT issu, "I don't expect anyone the current rps to be 'out' any time soon, assumg anyone is gay.
HISTORY’S FIRST GAY ASTRONTWHY IS STEM SO STRAIGHT?KAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE COLLECTOR·3 M READ·AUG 31, 2020--SHARESALLY RI WAS THE FIRST AMERIN WOMAN AND FIRST GAY SPACESOURCE: WIKIMEDIASALLY RI MA HISTORY AS AMERI’S FIRST WOMAN SPACE ON 18TH JUNE 1983. HOWEVER, WAS ONLY AFTER HER ATH THAT BEME KNOWN THAT SHE WAS GAY.THERE WERE STUTNAL REASONS WHY RI, A PH.D. ASTROPHYSICS, CID NOT TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET DURG HER LIFETIME. SHE WAS JT 32 SHE WHEN TO WENT TO SPACE.DURG HER STT AT NASA, SHE WAS PART OF MANY FIRSTS.• SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO E THE ROBOT ARM SPACE• SHE WAS THE FIRST TO E THE ARM TO RETRIEVE A SATELLE• ON HER SEND FLIGHT, THE CHALLANR, SHE SPENT MORE THAN 343 HOURS SPACE• THIS FLIGHT WAS ALSO HISTORIL THE SENSE THAT WAS THE FIRST FLIGHT TO CLU MORE THAN ONE WOMAN. RI WAS ACPANIED BY KATHRYN D. SULLIVANWHY IS STEM SO STRAIGHT?QUEER STEM ORGANIZATNS: WORKPLACE DISADVANTAG FOR LGBT EMPLOYE STEM RELATED FERAL AGENCISOURCE: MDPIACRDG TO A STUDY NDUCTED UNRGRADUATE STUNTS WHO INTIFY AS LGBTQ ARE LS LIKELY TO NTUE THEIR STEM MAJORS¹. OBVLY, SCE THE STUNTS DROP OUT OF STEM AND DO NOT GO TO GRADUATE SCHOOLS, WE SEE FEWER LGBTQ FACULTY AND THE VIC CYCLE NTU. THIS RULTS A VERY WEAK SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR STUNTS INTIFYG AS SEXUAL MORI.NASA WAS NO EXCEPTN TO THIS DURG RI’S TIME THERE. BOTH NASA AND THE US ARY OPERATED ON “DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL” ( DADT) POLICY UP UNTIL 2011. THIS MEANT GAY SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN HAD TO REMA THE CLOSET OR RISK EXPULSN.61% OF THE ASTRONTS SELECTED BY NASA HAVE E OM ARY SERVICE². THGS WERE EVEN WORSE FOR ARY PERSONNEL — APART OM THE DADT POLICY, THE NSERVATIVE NATURE OF ARY HERAGE BED WH THE TAC STRS ON MANLS MA DIFFICULT FOR SERVICE PERSONNEL TO E OUT.US ASTRONTS ALL TRA HOTON TEXAS, WHERE UP UNTIL 2003 SODOMY LAWS REMAED BOOKS.WHY SALLY NEVER ME OUT OF THE CLOSET?
Sally Ri ma history as Ameri’s first woman space on 18th June 1983. However, was only after her ath that beme known that she was gay. There were stutnal reasons why Ri, a… * space gay *
' While there are a great many more people who are openly gay today, we are not yet to a pot of universal acceptance, " he is also the fact that 219 of the 330 current and former astronts served the ary, acrdg to NASA. Ary operated unr a "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy om 1993 until 2011, unr which gay and lbian servicemen and women had to rema closeted or risk expulsn. The repeal of DADT last year allowed gays and lbians to serve openly the U.
‘IS SPACE GAY?’
There have been openly gay televisn actors and characters, there have been openly gay (retired) NFL football players, there has even been an openly gay US Republin Member of Congrs, but there has never been an openly gay astront, active or retired. Wh over 450 people havg flown to space, odds are there has been […] * space gay *
Now I’m here to share the love and brg you my favor that feature gays space, a niche but wonrful space the world of science-fictn.
GAY ASTRONTS: A FAL FRONTIER
This week, Papi advis a letter wrer wh an unual qutn: is space gay? Why do LGBTQ folks have an affy for outer space? Papi rponds. * space gay *
Kiem and Jaan are the most recent members of the “gays space” club, but they f right Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneThis Is How You Lose the Time War is full of geo prose and leral star-crossed lovers on oppose sis of a lennia-old war and so much longg. Templer stunngly b the medieval them of jotg for the hand of a fair main wh the drama and actn of robot gladiators, all starrg a ragtag band of space gays smashg the patriarchy.
Gion is absolutely an sential member of the gays space are by no means all of the wonrful gays space that you n read about durg Pri and all year long! It’s lled LIT, for the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer/Qutng Iniative Team.
Those are good qutns, pecially on the cp of Pri Month, and 10 years after the Department of Defense’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy got kicked to the that outdated mandate, lbian, gay and bisexual people uld don uniforms but uldn’t be open about their sexual orientatn, lt they be booted om service. Sally Ri was the first Amerin woman and first gay spaceSource: WikimediaSally Ri ma history as Ameri’s first woman space on 18th June 1983. This meant gay servicemen and women had to rema the closet or risk expulsn.
GAYS IN SPACE BOOKS
Books shelved as gays--space: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Pla by Becky Chambers, The Darkns Outsi Us by Elt Schrefer, Wter's Orb by Eve... * space gay *
There have been openly gay televisn actors and characters, there have been openly gay (retired) NFL football players, there has even been an openly gay US Republin Member of Congrs, but there has never been an openly gay astront, active or over 450 people havg flown to space, odds are there has been at least one gay person space already, but the nservative nature of NASA and the ary herage of many of the astronts may be to make difficult for astronts to be open about their sexual orientatn. The atmosphere Rsia has not been much have been some recent victori however for gay people who love space. "Of NASA’s 10 field centers, Am and JPL California, and Goddard Maryland already have groups at their centers to support gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr employe.
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Spacey me out as gay a 2017 statement nyg a sexual misnduct allegatn ma by actor Anthony Rapp. * space gay *
But the space muny at large, still has a long way to are groups the scientific and engeerg muni for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people, the largt is NOGLSTP (Natnal Organizatn of Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil Profsnals).
There are also groups of gay astronomers and gay geoscientists (gAyGU, a play on the geoscience anizatn AGU). Hawley, visnary -founr of the Internatnal Space Universy, boldly disclosed he was gay rponse to a flurry of mors.
KEV SPACEY BREAKS DOWN TEARS DURG TTIMONY ABOUT HOW HE ME OUT AS GAY
It's about three thgs; Gays, Space & Gay Space. In realy, two iends discs different topics week to week and brg guts to talk about anythg. No topics are out of bounds! * space gay *
He ultimately left ISU and died 1995 om plitns due to AIDS but his urage and his mment to space still touch the people who knew Pollack, a famo atmospheric scientist who worked wh Carl Sagan and spent most of his reer at NASA Am, was also gay. Pollack died of spe ncer you are gay and you love space you are certaly not alone (US cens data shows that at least 1 percent of the populatn is gay intifyg and wh the tens of thoands of people workg space that means there are a lot of gay people the space muny) importantly, if we work hard now, homophobia uld be one of those thgs we don’t have to take to space wh Bass: I’m Gay [People] Gee Takei Disclos His Sexualy [CBS News]See Also:Rsians Deny Sex--Space Stori.
Homosexualy an Evolutnary Step Towards the Superanism? The Contug Search for a Blogil Basis of GaynsImage: L.
FUTURE ‘SCIENTIST’ PROCLAIMS SPACE IS ‘TOTALLY FAKE AND GAY’
In 2021, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) teamed up wh Rankg Digal Rights and Goodw Simon Strategic Rearch to addrs the uptick of cyber-based vlence head-on. From gaymers to nng enthiasts, queer parentg groups, hikg clubs, practners of the healg arts, queer Star Wars fandom, you name —there’s a space on the app for everyone.
Papi, what is so gay about space? Signed, Star Gayzer.
SPACE GAYS!!! (A BOOK REMENDATN LIST)
I too have often asked myself: Fellas, is gay to st your gaze upon the night sky and ntemplate your place the vast universe?
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
Yeah, space is gay. Not gay as homosexual, but gay the elemental sense. Sounds gay.