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ALAN TURG, WWII BREAKER WHO WAS CHEMILLY STRATED FOR BEG GAY, CHOSEN TO BE FACE OF BRA'S £50 NOTE

He killed himself 1954 after beg chemilly strated for homosexual activy. Alan Turg, a Brish -breaker durg World War II who was later subjected to chemil stratn for homosexual activy, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he mted suici. Turg’s stratn 1952 – after he was nvicted of homosexual activy, which was illegal at the time – is “a sentence we would now nsir unjt and discrimatory and which has now been repealed, ” Graylg said.

Alan Turg, the mathematician famo for breakg Nazi Germany's secret s durg World War II, who was later chemilly strated for beg gay, will now be featured on Bra's £50 note. Alan Turg, a crack -breaker and visnary mathematician who was nvicted unr Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Bra’s new £50 note.

THE CASE FOR GAY REPARATN

Supporters have long mpaigned for Turg to receive greater regnn for his work and official acknowledgment that his nvictn for homosexual activy was wrong.

Enrnación is a profsor of polil New York Police Department apologized last week to the gay muny for the 1969 raid of the Stonewall Inn, the fallout of which is wily creded wh spurrg the ntemporary gay rights movement at home and abroad. ” The apology is the culmatn of a s-old stggle by gay activists for regnn of wrongdog on the part of the police — one that few activists thought uld ever bee a the surprise apology, the Uned Stat has taken s most signifint leap yet to “gay reparatn, ” or polici tend to addrs the legacy of state-sanctned reprsn of homosexuals.

Although relatively new to the Uned Stat, gay reparatn has been bated and legislated around the world for close to two s and is a logil progrsn the maturatn of the gay rights movement. Havg largely secured rights once thought to be virtually unattaable — pecially same-sex marriage — gay activists, pecially Wtern mocraci, are turng their attentn to addrsg the historil legaci of homosexual reprsn.

9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE

Although there is no one-size-fs-all mol when to gay reparatn, untri have taken three distct approach.

The most mon is “moral rehabilatn, ” which entails a formal apology by the state and the expungg of crimal rerds of those nvicted of a homosexual offense. The are not mutually exclive approach; fact, as recent experienc show, they are often pursued simultaneoly or of the first untri to grapple wh gay reparatn was Spa, which is ftg given the untry’s reputatn — first won durg the Inquisn, an stutn famo for burng “sodom” at the stake — as one of the most hostile to homosexualy the Wtern world. In 2007, as part of the landmark Law of Historil Memory, which regnized the victims of the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francis Fran, cludg homosexuals, beme possible for anyone who suffered enomic hardship bee of their sexual orientatn to seek pensatn om the state and to petn that their crimal rerd be expunged.

ALAN TURG & THE MEDIL ABE OF GAY MEN

Acrdg to El País, approximately 5, 000 people were taed and arrted on spicn of beg gay unr the Fran regime. ”Followg Spa’s footsteps, 2009, the Brish ernment issued an official apology to Alan Turg, the World War II breaker, 57 years after he was sentenced to a chemil stratn for beg gay. ” The Turg apology — and his subsequent pardong 2013 — were followed a few years later by a natnal pardon of thoands of gay and bisexual men who were nvicted of crim unr sexual-offense laws.

Such laws, which Bra, as much of the English-speakg world, have tradnally applied only to men, were ed nvictg some 65, 000 2016, Germany announced would make fancial reparatns om a fund of 30 ln ros to anyone nvicted unr Paragraph 175, a provisn the German crimal that was employed by the Nazi regime to force homosexuals to ncentratn mps and that remaed on the books until 1994. The ernment also pledged to expunge the rerds of some 50, 000 people jailed bee of their sexual 2017, Canada, Ireland, Stland, New Zealand and several Atralian stat have issued apologi to gay and bisexual men and other members of the L. Canada’s apology was preced by a report wrten by the untry’s leadg gay rights anizatn chroniclg systemic anti-gay discrimatn and acpanied by a payout of $85 ln to the victims of the so-lled gay purge, a policy of ernment-sanctned discrimatn that lasted until the 1990s and that ed thoands to lose their jobs and face prosecutn.

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