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LGBT News In Memory of Alan Turing

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  1. SaleGayGuy

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    Tomorrow 7th June is the 60th anniversary of Alan Turing’s death; in 1954 he committed suicide by eating a cyanide poisoned apple after being subjected to chemical castration for the crime of being gay. So in this Pride month let us all take a moment to remember him.

    For those of you who don’t know Alan Turing was one of the most important gay men of the 20th century, he was a brilliant mathematician and his work in breaking the German Enigma Code is widely considered to have shortened the Second World War saving thousands of lives. He is also the “Father” of modern computer science and was involved in the development of the early digital computers in the 1940s.

    Read more about this great guy

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27701207
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/alan_turing
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

    From Wiki: a photo of his statue on his 100th birthday during the 2012 Olympics, he sits every day on this park bench in Sackville Gardens right in the heart of Manchester’s Gay Village.


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    A great man who was treated appallingly by our country. It took far too long for the government to apologise.

    I'd like to see him remembered on one of our banknotes.
     
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    Thats pretty sad what happened to him and a shame he could'nt have been remembered better
     
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    The man was an utter genius. He contributed mightily to shortening the war and then went on to make signal contributions to computer science. Despite this, to be treated so shabbily is indefensible; even for those times and for that "crime", an exception should have been made.

    How many more LGBT folk are there who could have blessed us with their gifts had they been able to live their lives freely and openly.
     
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    What a brilliant cryptanalyst!

    Also, hot guy.
     
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    That and/or stamps would be nice, like how Harvey Milk was remembered via U.S. stamps.
     
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    Read Jeff Mann's ode to Alan Turning...

    "Alan Turning Memorial -- Manchester"
     
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    And to think how much he benefited the world despite being persecuted to the extent he was. If he was treated humanely god knows how much more advanced our knowledge might have been today.

    I think the truly criminal thing is that the UK hasn't pardoned all those found guilty of "crimes" of homosexuality or "gross indecency". The typical argument against pardoning "they were different times back then, so we shouldn't rewrite the past" is utterly pathetic. It makes me sick thinking there are still many men today with criminal records purely for being who they are, or for being entrapped into sex by police stings.

    The latter is probably the most bizarre to me. Years after decriminalizing you had police targeting gay men exclusively and encouraging them into sex so they could arrest them. Did the police send females into public places to flirt with straight men and catch them in the act? Of course not, but I'm sure a hell of a lot of straight guys wouldn't say no if a female was strongly propositioning sex. Now I appreciate this related to "cottaging" and the crime of public indecency - but surely cottaging is only a symptom of a homophobic society? Gay sex was such a taboo that some people felt the need to do it as illicitly as possible, and the best cover is in plain sight (i.e. public places) as they say. So if the police had focused on making the streets safer for gay people (e.g. focusing on hate crimes), rather than persecuting them cottaging would have probably diminished over time as a result. Instead they sent out the message (intentionally or not) that gay sex is wrong, shameful, criminal.
     
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