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QueerSpace
An AirSpace Limited Series
Welcome to QueerSpace, a limited series from the creators of AirSpace, featuring stories and people at the intersection of aviation, space, and LGBTQ+ history and culture. In this five-part podcast series, we’re highlighting the scope and diversity of queer experiences found across human flight and space science.
Listen to QueerSpace: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RadioPublic | Stitcher | RSS
QueerSpace is made possible by the generous support of Olay.
Welcome to QueerSpace, a limited series from the creators of AirSpace, featuring stories and people at the intersection of aviation, space, and LGBTQ+ history and culture. In this five-part podcast series, we’re highlighting the scope and diversity of queer experiences found across human flight and space science.
Listen to QueerSpace: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RadioPublic | Stitcher | RSS
QueerSpace is made possible by the generous support of Olay.
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QueerSpace: Fight For Your Right
Posted on Jun 09, 2022
Happy Pride Month! Today, we’re bringing you a special installment of QueerSpace, our limited series featuring stories and people at the intersection of aviation, space, and LGBTQ+ history and culture. Seven years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v Hodges that same-sex couples have the fundamental right to marry under the constitution. If you dig into an amicus brief for Obergefell, you’ll see mention of another case, Norton v Macy. This case set the first precedent ruling that the federal government can’t fire an employee for being gay. We talk a lot about pilots and astronauts who’ve made history, but today’s aerospace trailblazer was a humble NASA civil servant and petitioner named Clifford Norton.
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People
LGBTQ+ people
Society and Culture
Story
QueerSpace: Saxophones on the Moon
Posted on Apr 14, 2022
When researching QueerSpace, we repeatedly saw creators blending themes of space and themes of queerness in their art. Many of these artists use their art to envision new futures. Futurist thinking uses the experience of the past and present to contextualize and reimagine what the future could be, often creating a future that’s more equitable and radically different than what we have now.
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Space
Art
LGBTQ+ people
Society and Culture
Story
Star Trek and Queer Identity
Posted on Mar 31, 2022
Despite being known as a leader in terms of gender and racial integration, it wasn't until 2017 that the first openly gay characters were introduced in a Star Trek television show. We talk to curator Margaret Weitekamp about Star Trek's history with LGBTQ+ stories and characters.
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Space
LGBTQ+ people
Society and Culture
Science fiction
Story
QueerSpace: Becoming Light
Posted on Mar 24, 2022
Historically, queer-identifying people in the U.S. military have been forced out or forced to hide who they are. It wasn’t until 2011 that gay, lesbian, and bisexual servicemembers could serve openly, and only in the last few years that trans servicemembers could serve at all. And while there’s still a ways to go, last year the Air Force and Space Force formed a working group specifically for LGBTQ+ issues.
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Aviation
Military aviation
People
LGBTQ+ people
Story
QueerSpace: We’re All Stories In The End
Posted on Mar 10, 2022
In science fiction, the possibilities are seemingly endless. Authors can literally rewrite a world in terms of gender, sexuality, and culture, making something that is more inclusive and often more interesting. We talk to bookseller Hannah Oliver Depp of Loyalty Books about the history of queer worldbuilding in sci-fi literature.
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LGBTQ+ people
Society and Culture
Science fiction
Story
Rodney the Smiling Steward
Posted on Mar 04, 2022
Although a majority of flight attendants in the 1930s were women, Pan Am and Eastern Air Lines exclusively hired men for the role. These male stewards, who made up one third of the flight attendants across the industry, were sometimes belittled as “interlopers in an already well-established female realm.”
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Aviation
Commercial aviation
Story
QueerSpace: Fly the Friendly Skies
Posted on Feb 24, 2022
The first episode of our "QueerSpace" limited series spotlights the history and community built by male flight attendants.
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Aviation
Commercial aviation
People
LGBTQ+ people
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