CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Rters) - Sally Ri was the first U.S. woman space and a role mol for women everywhere. But one group had to wa until her ath this week to claim her as a member - the gay muny.
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- AFTER ATH, SALLY RI REVEALS SHE WAS GAY
- NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
AFTER ATH, SALLY RI REVEALS SHE WAS GAY
* sally meaning gay *
The important differenc are the: while Salli may have a slightly larger populatn of homosexual mal (two more than Cab, they're proud to say) Cab Calloway has a much larger populatn of bisexual mal.
It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said.
But one group had to wa until her ath this week to claim her as a member - the gay a statement prepared before her ath on Monday of pancreatic ncer, Ri, 61, acknowledged publicly for the first time that she had a longstandg relatnship wh a woman, Tam O'Shghnsy, who was her partner bs, science wrg and astront's webse, Sally Ri Science, listed O'Shghnsy, Ri's partner for nearly 30 years, as a survivor. “"It was a role which she was never fully fortable, " Hawley Human Rights Campaign, the largt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr civil rights group the Uned Stat, posted a tribute to Sally Ri on the ont page of s webse on Tuday. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.
NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly.
It was bil and ugly, filled wh “every gay slur you uld thk of, ” Bach said.