3 - Corporate Lesbians

Historically Really Good Friends

This week, Rachel and Jared cover the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, and the victims of the first (and maybe only) conviction of lesbianism in the United States, Sarah White Norman & Mary Vincent Hammon!

Content Warning: This episode contains adult language and themes, such as homophobia and death.

Sally Ride:

  • "NASA Astronaut and Scientist Sally Ride" by Shannon Halliwell, All Gay Long
  • "Sally Ride, the first queer astronaut" by Jeremy Willard, Xtra Magazine
  • "From Girlhood Pals To Life Partners..." by Tam O’Shaugnessy, Huffington Post
  • "Loving Sally Ride" by Madeline K. Sofia & Brit Hanson, NPR
  • "Astronaut Sally Ride and the Burden of Being The First" by Ann Friedman, The American Prospect

Sarah White Norman & Mary Vincent Hammon:

  • Wikipedia Articles (SWN+MVH, History of Lesbianism, Sodomy Laws, Plymouth)
  • "Queer History - March" by Cheyenne, Queereka
  • "Legal case: Norman, Hammon; Plymouth..." from Out History
  • "LGBTQ America, Chapter 19" from the NPS Study, chapter written by Marc Stein

Make sure to send in your coming out stories, stories about when you knew you were queer, or stories of queer figures in your own life to historicallyreallygoodfriends@gmail.com to be read on the podcast!

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