To celebrate LGBT History Month, 2013, Polari is publishing a daily series of LGBT Heroes, selected by the magazine’s team of writers and special contributors.

“Sally Ride Science was founded in 2001, with the aim of developing science, technology, engineering and maths education for elementary and middle school students. Two elementary schools in the United States have in fact been named in her honour.”

Jane Hilton’s Dead Eagle Trail photographs the 21st century cowboy.

The celebrated photographer Jane Hilton talks about her exhibition and book Dead Eagle Trail: America’s Twenty-First Century Cowboys, and the strong hold that the myth of the cowboy maintains over the American imagination.

“I mistakenly mentioned Brokeback Mountain once. That had a very interesting reaction,” she said with a mischievous laugh. “At first they denied knowledge of it, then one of them said, ‘I think I know what you mean. No, we won’t be seeing that’.”