In this case a “good lesbian” being an “out lesbian.” Virginia Hefferman at The Lookout notes the issue: Maybe the idea of gays in space is just so exciting that it has overwhelmed Sally Ride’s eulogists, who really should be parsing her achievements in astrophysics, accident investigations and middle-school education, rather than trying to make hay out of her mellow lesbian romantic life. she and her collaborator and co-author Tam O’Shaughnessy, a biologist and school psychology professor, really did live together for three decades. This was well-known to family and friends. Ride died Monday. Much of her adoring public learned … Continue reading America’s First Female Astronaut Sally Ride Attacked Posthumously For Not Being A Good Lesbian