The medias are talking a lot about hero Sally Ride passing away (and what a phenomenal woman she was indeed, wow), but none of them are mentioning that the woman who shared her life for 27 years, Tam O’Shaughnessy, will get no widow benefits from the States like astronauts’s spouses usually do.
Because gay.Lesbian is still an ugly word, eh?
reblogging so more people can know this because i certainly did not!
WELP FUCK I DID NOT KNOW THAT
God damn it.
WHAT.