The gay space agency

An astronaut from the fictional Gay Space Agency. Staged photograph taken at Obsidian Dome in Mono County, California, United States.

The Gay Space Agency imagines an alternative history for NASA, which would allow LGBTQ+ astronauts to fly in space.

The Gay Space Agency Mackenzie Calle Series description From the late s, astronauts on NASA’s Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs were required to take two heterosexuality tests, and in , NASA asked ‘to include homosexuality as a psychiatrically disqualifying condition’ for astronauts. The psychiatric team protested, but NASA.

The Gay Space Agency confronts the American space program’s historical exclusion of openly queer astronauts, reimagining a history of the space program that celebrates queerness and highlights LGBTQIA+ role models. In , Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.