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Astronaut, brainiac, educational force … oh yeah, lesbian. Why is that the news? - The Globe and Mail
"I bristled a bit at the news that the great Sally Ride, who died this week in San Diego at 61 of pancreatic cancer, has now in death been labelled “the first lesbian astronaut.”
She was one of nature’s aristocrats – not only a PhD physicist and the first American woman in space (and at 32, the youngest American as well) but also a Shakespeare scholar, a tennis player who could have turned pro, an entrepreneur and an activist. Her company Sally Ride Science paved the way for more girls and young women to make their way to the STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and math."
"I bristled a bit at the news that the great Sally Ride, who died this week in San Diego at 61 of pancreatic cancer, has now in death been labelled “the first lesbian astronaut.”
She was one of nature’s aristocrats – not only a PhD physicist and the first American woman in space (and at 32, the youngest American as well) but also a Shakespeare scholar, a tennis player who could have turned pro, an entrepreneur and an activist. Her company Sally Ride Science paved the way for more girls and young women to make their way to the STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and math."
