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The announcement of Sally Ri's ath ma her the first openly gay astront, albe posthumoly. Why are there no others?

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WHY AREN'T THERE ANY OPENLY GAY ASTRONTS?

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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. 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.

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Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster discs that Gays Space b 'Fire Island' and their obssn wh the 'SNL' sketch. * gay in space *

' 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.

Gays. One of Bowen Yang's favore Saturday Night Live sketch of all time to this day is Gays Space, the recurrg b wrten by Jam Anrson that started 2005 as a fake sci-fi show on the Tr work. A glzed-out Maya Rudolph would perform the openg theme song before each stallment, focg on the adventur of a gay spachip crew, ptaed by the host of the week.

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It's not a cince that Fire Island, the new rom- Yang stars wh creator Joel Kim Booster, referenc Gays Space. " FIRE ISLAND, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang discs the "Gays Space" b 'Fire Island.

Yang's Howie falls for a doctor named Charlie (Jam Scully), and the two fd themselv flirtg poolsi at a hoe party while Howie explas Gays Space to him as Booster's Noah arriv on the scene.

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