WWII breaker Alan Turg be 1st gay man on a Brish bank note

Contents:

• ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
• WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE
• ALAN TURG: GAY MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD YET DIED DISGRACE
• REMEMBERG ALAN TURG, THE GAY BRISH WAR HERO WHO DIED AFTER BEG PERSECUTED BY HIS UNTRY
• ALAN TURG: INIC GAY WAR-TIME SCIENTIST

ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN

Durg Turg’s life, homosexualy was a crimal offence and Turg was nvicted 1952 of “Gross Incency”. One of the fg markers of change has been the LGBT+ liberatn movement, which began the 1970s and mpaigned for equal rights for the gay muny.

More than 60 years after breaker Alan Turg’s ath an apparent suici, his battle wh his sexualy and longg for a permanent relatnship have emerged three prevly unpublished rrponnce dat om the 1950s when, after beg found guilty of gross cency wh a 19-year-old man, he had been sentenced to chemil treatment was tend to supprs homosexual urg.

Turg took his own life 1954, two years after beg outed as gay. Homosexualy was still a crime Great Bra at the time, and Turg was nvicted of “cency.

WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE

The laws at the time prevented Turg om beg openly gay, but he never kept his sexualy secret eher. The punishment for homosexualy was chemil stratn, a seri of hormone jectns that left Turg impotent.

In fiance, he traveled abroad to Norway and the Mederranean, where the gay rights movements were buddg. Homosexualy was nsired a secury risk at the time, and the nvictn st Turg his secury clearance. “After he’d been revealed as gay 1952, he uldn’t do any more secret work, ” Hodg said.

ALAN TURG: GAY MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD YET DIED DISGRACE

Dpe his valuable ntributns, Turg ultimately suffered persecutn for beg gay and died aged 41 om suici, 69 years ago to this very day (7th June). That is the man who was challenged by our society, ntered, punished, and sunk to obscury bee of the treatment of homosexuals at that time. At the time, Alan Turg was subjected to hormone treatment, or chemil stratn, for beg gay, stead of beg imprisoned.

The term “Alan Turg Law” is now monly ed to refer to a UK law troduced 2017 that grants retroactive pardons for men who had been nvicted unr past legislatn that crimalised homosexual acts. Unabashedly gay, he mted suici after beg nvicted of homosexual acts. He also laid the groundwork for morn putg and theorized about artificial openly gay man durg a time when homosexual acts were illegal Bra, Turg mted suici after beg nvicted of "gross cency" and sentenced to a procre some ll "chemil stratn.

" He has sce bee a martyred hero of the gay muny. At the same time, he was also beg more aware of his inty as a gay man, and his philosophy was beg closely aligned wh the liberal left.

REMEMBERG ALAN TURG, THE GAY BRISH WAR HERO WHO DIED AFTER BEG PERSECUTED BY HIS UNTRY

Gross cencyTurg had never been secretive about his homosexualy. [Countdown: 10 Milton Gay Rights History]He ntued his work quantum physics and cryptanalytics, but known homosexuals were eligible for secury clearance. Dpe this, however, he died as a disgraced “crimal” — simply for beg a gay man.

“However, his many ntributns to society were still not enough to spare him the appallg treatment to which he was subjected simply bee he was gay. Now we know them as programs, ” acrdg to David Llie of the Alan Turg beg an outstandg puter scientist and a war hero didn’t spare Turg om what some have lled a “wch hunt” of gay and bisexual men the U.

ALAN TURG: INIC GAY WAR-TIME SCIENTIST

K., which led to the imprisonment of thoands of gay men and those spected of beg gay throughout the January 1952, Turg was prosecuted for cency over his relatnship wh another man Manchter. Homosexualy was crimalized the U. This is the first time that a gay man is featured on a Brish bank note.

It has been weled by parts of the LGBTQ muny as a symbol of the untry facg up to s dark past of the horrific persecutn of gay men.