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LGBT History Month profile: Sally Ride, first female American astronaut in space
On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. She later became the only person to serve on the presidential commissions investigating both of the nation’s space shuttle tragedies — the Challenger explosion (1986) and the Columbia disaster (2003).
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Obama to honor LGBT activist Bayard Rustin, astronaut Sally Ride
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will posthumously honor LGBT and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, and Dr. Sally Ride, the first known LGBT astronaut, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday.
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Highest Presidential honor to be awarded posthumously to Sally Ride
WASHINGTON — The White House announced Monday that President Barack Obama will bestow a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, to astronaut Dr. Sally Ride.
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Can my ‘gay community’ please stop whining about Sally Ride?
We sometimes expect our famous gay and lesbian brothers and sisters to carry our banner to every corner of the world, shouting how we deserve and demand equal rights, when the reality is that they are simply trying to live a gay life in a straight world just as you and I are. I don’t believe we have the right to ask or demand that of anyone.
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Sally Ride, first U.S. woman in space, dies of cancer; comes ‘out’ in obituary
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday at the age of 61, following a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.