Divorce is always a shame, but ... don't be so quick to blame the divorce on her "orientation". Not all people are attracted exclusively to one gender. All we know about Sally Ride is that "Sally didn't use labels. Sally had a very fundamental sense of privacy" http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/first-female-us-astrona...

We know that she had a male parter. We know she had a female partner. We don't know why the first partnership failed. And we don't really need to.