The LGBT community has no shame at all. I have a sister in law(well ex SIL I guess
) who lives with her partner of many years. Neither woman is out there wearing the gay on the sleeve. They just live as two normal individuals and could probably be mistaken for roommates or even sisters to the outside world. They live, work, raise children, and disabled relatives together and they are so subtle about things it really would leave you wondering in the outside world are they or aren't they. I suspect Sally Ride and her partner lives their lives in the same understated way. LGbt ilk, there is a reason these ladies lived this way and it's nothing suspicious about being in the closet. They are just your average, private, dignified human beings. In fact, how they lived--the quiet lives like most heterosexuals do, is all really most of us on 'this side' would like. Imagine that to act and behave like fellow dignified and civilized human beings.
My bet is these two ladies probably had a mountain of conservative friends too. I doubt they were rejected in their homes. Because of the dignity and total normalcy in which they lived their lives as extraordinarily bright women.
Sally Ride deserves far more dignity then a bunch of tu tu wearing, phallus sucking queens using her as a poster child.
