Why Aren't There Any Openly Gay Astronts? | Space

Contents:

• WHY AREN'T THERE ANY OPENLY GAY ASTRONTS?
• PHOTOS OF GAY MORMON MISSNARI STIR NTROVERSY
• 6 OF THE BT SEX POSNS FOR GAY MEN WHO LIKE TO TOP
• ON BEG A GAY MORMON MISSNARY
• THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI
• GAY THE LATO COMMUNY: A FILM REVIEW OF “LA MISSN”
• COMPANNS: LSONS OM GAY MORMON MISSNARI
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• PLAN 9 OM MISSN HILL (OR I MARRIED A GAY MAN OM OUTER SPACE)
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

WHY AREN'T THERE ANY OPENLY GAY ASTRONTS?

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.

PHOTOS OF GAY MORMON MISSNARI STIR NTROVERSY

"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.

' 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.

6 OF THE BT SEX POSNS FOR GAY MEN WHO LIKE TO TOP

The photographs, part of an stunt-sponsored exhibn tied to Diversy Week by gay, lbian and transgenred artists at the school's South Cy mp, pict two young men whe shirts and dark pants, one of them wearg a missnary name tag. Farmer, who is gay, told The Salt Lake Tribune that he was raised a member of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats and had difficulty while growg up rencilg the two worlds.

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When I was fourteen, after lookg up the word “homosexual” the dictnary, I fally had a word to scribe what I felt. Stuart Matis, the gay grandson of Henry Matis, whom my grandfather helped nvert to the LDS Church, nfid his parents and Church lears, and his life end tragilly, suici.

ON BEG A GAY MORMON MISSNARY

One Sunday I was attendg my parents’ ward, when a brother stood up and ma some extremely homophobic ments. It reassured me, and told me that this brother didn’t know what he was talkg about when he spoke about gay people.

It seemed to me that the majory of Mormons had ser misnceptns about homosexualy, and had very negative and false stereotyp about what meant to be gay. Maybe the growth of the Church would be very bad for gay people – much the way that the growth of Evangelil Christiany Uganda has been disastro for gays that part of the world. And if I knew of God’s great love for me and if I knew of all the ways which he had blsed me and my hband, then surely I mt know that his plan for the Church, there would always, always be a place for me and my hband, and that the spread of his Church, far om beg bad for gays, would make a world that is far, far better for gays and for all God’s children, whatever their sexual orientatn, race, genr or other aspects of who we are.

A person n be homophobic, but if they learn how to love, once the sl of homophobia are removed om their ey, they will love far better than someone who was not homophobic, but never learned the value of sacrifice. This is why we need the Church to grow, and why we need to be a part of the Church, and why we need to learn to live the Gospel see, this same brother who tght me this betiful lson about why I need to not worry about my stat the Church, and worry more about the kd of person I am beg also tght me this lson about homophobia.

THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI

And this same brother who had gotten up one day Sunday School a few years ago and gone on a homophobic rant that almost ed me to get up and walk out of the Church, that same brother stood up Prithood meetg and to my and my father’s astonishment nfsed that many the Church have misunrstood and have needlsly rejected our lbian and gay brothers and sisters (he ed the words “lbian and gay”! I thk this is generally a good thg, though seems to add certa challeng relatn to Church activy and service, pecially relatn to servg a full-time a gay or lbian youth were to ask my advice about whether to serve a missn for the Church or not, here is what I would say.

But what I do know is that the membership of the Church do not have to be purified of every last vtige of homophobia orr to provi a marvelo ntext for growth and for the Lord to bls through his rtored prithood. In the November 1987 edn of Gui, a magaze for homosexuals, the two men thored an article tled “The Overhlg of Straight Ameri.

” There Kirk, a rearcher nropsychiatry, and Madsen, a public relatns nsultant, laid out a blueprt to fundamentally change Amerins’ attus toward homosexuals and homosexualy. In 1989 they expand that blueprt to a 398-page book tled After the Ball: How Ameri Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays the 90s. Their goal was to make homosexualy acceptable and to fe negative opns of any who disagree.

GAY THE LATO COMMUNY: A FILM REVIEW OF “LA MISSN”

The article began by statg: “The first orr of bs is sensizatn of the Amerin public ncerng gays and gay rights. One person scribed “The Overhlg of Straight Ameri” as the “bible” of the homosexual agenda.

We do not need and nnot expect a full ‘appreciatn’ or ‘unrstandg’ of homosexualy om the average Amerin.

Gallup polls 1989 showed that only 19 percent of Amerins believed people were born homosexual, wh 48 percent believg was due to environmental factors such as upbrgg. By 2015 those numbers had dramatilly shifted to 51 percent believg homosexuals were born that way and only 30 percent attributg to other factors. (This is spe of the fact that extensive geic rearch and many studi of intil tws where only one was homosexual have disproven geic termism.

COMPANNS: LSONS OM GAY MORMON MISSNARI

Well-rearched surveys (as opposed to some wh markedly skewed sampl and/or methodology) have nsistently placed the homosexual populatn of Ameri at around 2 to 3 percent—yet the fluence of homosexuals on Amerin culture is vastly out of proportn wh their actual numbers. The way to benumb raw sensivi about homosexualy is to have a lot of people talk a great al about the subject a ntral or supportive way... Constant talk builds the imprsn that public opn is at least divid on the subject, and that a sizable segment accepts or even practic homosexualy.

In the early stag of any mpaign to reach straight Ameri, the mass should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavr self.

B by b over the past ten years, gay characters and gay them have been troduced to TV programs and films...

HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

Have you noticed the number of homosexual characters appearg TV programs and how they are overwhelmgly picted posively? A USA Today article last year reported 32 regularly appearg bisexual or homosexual characters primetime work scripted seri for the 2014-15 televisn season, wh another 64 appearg ble TV shows (Bill Keveney, “Y, You Really Are Seeg More LGBT Characters on TV, ” Oct. If a child grows up hearg about the gay liftyle and seeg portrayed posively his entire life, won’t that make seem normal?

Kirk and Madsen also scribed a strategy by which the homosexual movement uld unter and largely nullify opposn om Ameri’s church.

PLAN 9 OM MISSN HILL (OR I MARRIED A GAY MAN OM OUTER SPACE)

They wrote: “When nservative church nmn gays, there are only two thgs we n do to nfound the homophobia of te believers.

This means publicizg support for gays by more morate church, raisg theologil objectns of our own about nservative terpretatns of biblil teachgs, and exposg hatred and nsistency.

This they have certaly acplished—enlistg liberal scholars to expla away biblil teachgs about homosexual practic, reterpretg their pla meang. They ntued: “Send, we n unrme the moral thory of homophobic church by portrayg them as antiquated backwaters, badly out of step wh the tim and wh the latt fdgs of psychology. Those who hold to biblil teachgs about homosexualy and marriage are nmned as bigots, homophob and backward thkers who are a threat to progrs.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Some who have stood up have been fed, orred to attend pro-homosexual “sensivy trag, ” lost jobs or had their bs sued out of existence by ernment agents and agenci that support the homosexual agenda. “In any mpaign to w over the public, gays mt be st as victims need of protectn, ” Kirk and Madsen wrote. “If gays are prented, stead, as a strong and priful tribe promotg a rigidly nonnformist and viant liftyle, they are more likely to be seen as a public menace that jtifi ristance and opprsn.

For that reason, we mt forego the temptatn to stt our ‘gay pri’ publicly when nflicts wh the Gay Victim image, ” they wrote. This means that jnty mtached mclemen would keep very low profile gay mercials and other public prentatns, while sympathetic figur of nice young people, old people, and attractive women would be featured.

They then add this utn for those who would want to ph the gay agenda too far: “It almost go whout sayg that groups on the fartht marg of acceptabily such as NAMBLA [the North Amerin Man-Boy Love Associatn, which as s name suggts promot adult-child homosexual sex] mt play no part at all such a mpaign: spected child-molters will never look like victims...