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WHY AREN'T THERE ANY OPENLY GAY ASTRONTS?
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The lack of even one openly gay or lbian livg astront the history of Amerin spaceflight may reflect the culture at the NASA astront office. 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 yterday. Gay rights advot say Sally Ri's addn to the ranks of LGBT role mols will make a tremendo impact. 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. ' While there are a great many more people who are openly gay today, we are not yet to a pot of universal acceptance, " he noted.
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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. 5 Myths About Gay People Debunked.
Can People Stop Beg Gay? But some astronomers say discrimatn agast gay and lbian ernment employe durg his tenure should preclu him om havg a telpe named his honor. NASA do not plan to rename s new $10 billn technologil marvel, the Jam Webb Space Telpe, spe ncerns about beg named after former NASA admistrator Jam Webb, who went along wh ernment discrimatn agast gay and lbian employe the 1950s and 1960s.
Controversy epts Earlier this year, over 1, 200 people, mostly astronomers or astronomy enthiasts — cludg scholars who want to e the new telpe for their own rearch — signed a petn urgg NASA to rename the telpe, sayg that Webb seems to have been plic the purge of homosexual people om ernment jobs durg his time public service, cludg when he served a high-level posn the U. "And at worst, we're basilly jt sendg this credible stment to the sky wh the name of a homophobe on , my opn. " She not that Norton was arrted for gay activy, terrogated by the police, and then picked up by NASA's head of secury and qutned at the agency.