Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

My name is Eli. I'm Alice. I'm Irene.

And today we're talking about Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.

We have some content warnings before we get started on this episode.

We're going to be discussing periodypical homophobia and sexism.

We're also going to be discussing cancer and death from cancer, as well as deaths in the

Columbia and Challenger spacecraft disasters.

We've never been to space before on this podcast.

We have never been to space.

If any of that sounds like something you don't want to listen to, please feel free to skip this one and listen to one of our other episodes, which won't have any space.

That's true.

No.

I will have other content warnings, but none of them will be about space.

True.

This is not the episode that we had planned to bring out today. That's true. No. They will have other content warnings, but none of them will be about space. True.

This is not the episode that we had planned to bring out today.

We had planned to do a retrospective of queer historical films in 2019, just like we did

for January 1st last year, but Jason is close to death, by which we mean they have glandular

and cannot do anything.

So we had to do this instead.

It's happened very quickly.

Please be kind.

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