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LGBT News Posthumous pardon for Alan Turing

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by Lindsey23, Jul 24, 2013.

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    Will the other 48,999 gay men be getting a pardon as well?
     
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    Will the injustice be undone, his life given back to him?

    I know I'm just being bitter (and that I'm not the only one), but this depresses the hell out of me.
     
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    Yes & this also includes Oscar Wilde :slight_smile:
     
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    Wow this is great! It's a shame it took them all these decades to do it, but better late than never.
     
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    Luckily most of us living in the UK were born after it was illegal, or it could have been us up in front of the Courts, theses Guys went through hell & are one of the reasons that we are free to be Gay today :slight_smile:
     
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    Yeah it must be horrible to be landed with the choice Turing was given . I would probably choose prison
     
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    The bitter-sweet flavour of "justice".
    Its a good thing he was pardoned it's just a shame he had to be pardoned at all
     
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    I was reading about this in the paper yesterday whilst my family was around, and my younger brother asked who he was. My mother replied that he was 'famous for being a real weirdo'. I replied saying why he wwas really famous, and then she said 'yeah....but he was a weirdo. A homosexual..'.

    Some people are so ignorant. Makes me angry.
     
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    Solves unbreakable Nazi secret code.
    Contributes to the founding of modern computers.
    Is remembered for being a real weirdo.