As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I have a huge passion for our rights, especially in the space community, as this is my future field. James Webb was incredibly homophobic man, and his legacy proves to be the same.

According to the Scientific American, “James Webb, who died in 1992, was a career civil servant whose time at the U.S. Department of State under President Harry S. Truman included advancing the development of psychological warfare as a cold war tool. He later oversaw the Apollo program as NASA administrator. When he arrived at NASA in 1961, his leadership role meant he was in part responsible for implementing what was by then federal policy: the purging of LGBT individuals from the workforce. When he was at State, this policy was enforced by those who worked under him. As early as 1950, he was aware of this policy, which was a forerunner to the antigay witch hunt known today as the lavender scare.”

[Scientific American](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/?amp=true

With this said, I believe that the James Webb Space Telescope should be renamed the Sally Ride Space Telescope. Dr. Sally Ride was the first American woman in space in 1983, and was the first openly lesbian astronaut in NASA history. 
According to Sally Ride Science, “Sally was finishing her Ph.D. in physics at Stanford University in 1977 when she saw an article in the student newspaper saying that NASA was seeking astronaut candidates, and that for the first time, women could apply. When she blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman—and, at 32, the youngest American—in space. Sally's historic flight made her a symbol of the ability of women to break barriers and a hero to generations of adventurous young girls. She flew on Challenger again in 1984 and later was the only person to serve on both panels investigating the nation's space shuttle disasters—the Challenger explosion in 1986 and the breakup of the shuttle Columbia on reentry in 2003.”

Sally Ride Science, (https://sallyridescience.ucsd.edu/about/sallyride/