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[EndtheMadnessNow]

Did you forget it’s Pride Month? Your bit on Sally Ride failed to mention she was gay and in a loving relationship with another woman for 27 years!

Sally Ride was very good at keeping secrets. As the first American woman in space, she protected countless confidences during a lifetime of public appearances. During her post-NASA years, she regularly wrote and reviewed classified government material on high-profile commissions. When she died in 2012 of pancreatic cancer, a diagnosis hidden from all but a tiny handful of family and close friends, I started unraveling the mysteries for her biography. She was a brilliant, mischievous enigma.

But the most surprising revelation was the one that came at the end of her obituary: that for 27 years, she’d been in a loving relationship with another woman, Tam O’Shaughnessy. The collective gasp from an admiring public reverberated for days. A small minority complained that she’d squandered an opportunity to speak out for their rights. A few spouted homophobic hatred. Selfishly, as her pal of more than three decades, I was stunned; hurt, that I did not know Sally fully, that I could not celebrate her happiness with Tam. Then I thought, why does her sexual orientation matter? Finally, I got it.

Never before had the words astronaut and lesbian appeared in the same sentence. Google them today, and you get more than half a million hits, all pegged to Sally Ride. Most salute her as an icon with an added, posthumous message of hope for the LGBTQ community. So why the secrecy?

What made this 61-year-old pioneer—so bold in her actions, so non-traditional in her choice of careers and devotion to science; this baby-boomer whose life had been transformed by the space age and the social revolution of the ’60s and ’70s—keep silent, so long, about being gay?

Sally Ride’s Secret: Why the First American Woman in Space Stayed in the Closet

Why Sally Ride waited until her death to tell the world she was gay

Astronaut Sally Ride brought women and the LGBTQ+ community to the final frontier 40 years ago

Actually I did forget, damn it! BUT I posted her a while back mentioning that fact. Besides I figure that Pride timeline of flags I posted yesterday was enough. LOL. She kind of reminds me of that woman in "For All Mankind" tv series.


Some more just for kicks...

June 18, 1812: the U.S. declared war on Great Britain due in part to the impressment of sailors. The Royal Navy was known to stop U.S. ships to ask the crew to say "peas". Sailors who pronounced it "paise" rather than "pees" were deemed to be British deserters and then seized.


However, according to American Battlefield Trust, the War of 1812 was an avoidable conflict, which was a "result of ineffective foreign policy." Huh, sounds familiar today.




The streets of Pyongyang are adorned with portraits of the Russian President, and the flags of Russia and North Korea. Rocketman personally greets Vladimir Putin at Pyongyang airport. The North Korean elites are excited on the arrival of Putin for his second trip to the country after 24 years.




Flashback...



Looks like a Blancpain (Swiss) watch or more likely a Hublot Big Bang (also Swiss & extremely expensive but less than a Rolex):


Fingers look suspicious but anyways women have also been known to fall out of windows unexpectedly.


In other RT funnies...


They can switch off Tesla cars remotely. Next, they can also switch us off remotely with neuralink chips. This takes mind control to whole new level.


Ironic, how the corporate solution to worker stress is to recreate the brainwashing montage from the Parallax View...


Blood in the Machine: The Newsletter

Ads are out of control...







Fake AI still kickin ass & takin names...lol




Nice to see that being alive is no longer a requirement to work for the BBC. Explains a lot, actually. Dead, deaf, zombies, apply now!


UK Express