Quote Originally Posted by nik0tine View Post
she mated with a female partner
I'm glad I was not the only one who found that line amusing. Lo

I do think it's a good thing that it is known she was gay for the same reason it was good to note Obama was Black.

There is still a lot of anti-gay emotion in the country, and it's nice to have some good examples of gays doing great things to show that they are capable of just as much as the rest of us.

I disagree with all the focus being put on that though.

Also,

She now makes history not only as the first American woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger, but as the first openly gay or bisexual person
But she didn't come out to after death, so She wasn't Openly gay.