Alan Turg was unashamed about beg gay but the breakg geni died 1954 after nsumg cyani - an act many have lked to his persecutn for beg a homosexual, wr his bgrapher Andrew Hodg.
Contents:
- ALAN TURG: GAY BREAKER'S FIANCE KEEPS MEMORY ALIVE
- ALAN TURG LAW: GAY, UNJTLY NVICTED - AND NOW NIED A PARDON
- WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE
ALAN TURG: GAY BREAKER'S FIANCE KEEPS MEMORY ALIVE
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Turg’s ath an apparent suici, his battle wh his sexualy and longg for a permanent relatnship have emerged three prevly unpublished rrponnce dat om the 1950s when, after beg found guilty of gross cency wh a 19-year-old man, he had been sentenced to chemil treatment was tend to supprs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.
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.
ALAN TURG LAW: GAY, UNJTLY NVICTED - AND NOW NIED A PARDON
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.
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.
WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE
After an athletics meetg on Boxg Day 1946, a sports reporter, who was aware of his life as signer of the "electronic bra", terviewed was reported as "diffint" about his prows, and creded Amerins for the "donkey work" self-effacement, mixed wh a dark ht that he had actually ntributed somethg better than "donkey work" to the puter, typified the cryptic way he spoke of top of this, there was a matter that no-one wished to know was arrted on 7 Febary 1952 for his affair wh a young Manchter was obliged to unrtake jectns of female hormon tend to renr him the 1970s, this was thought utterly unprtable and circulated only amic if unnscly, this meant a black cloud hung over his scientific 1973, the Gay Liberatn Front broke this silence, publishg a brief statement of what had happened as an example of what gay men had endured om the law and medice, but few then were terted and his name meant ltle. And he had shown fiance rather than told the police that he thought there was "a Royal Commissn stg to legalise " 1952 and aga 1953 he sisted on holidays abroad, Norway and Greece, explicly for eedom om Brish law, and very likely fluenced by hearg of the early Sndavian gay movement.
His ears pricked up at a ht of as a gay man, Turg was particularly unlucky. The pot about 1948 when he cid to have a more posive gay life was jt the pot when there was a change om silence to active was not only timg that he was cursed: there was his very special none of his iends knew 1954 was that he had been the chief scientific figure the breakg operatn throughout World War 1948 the Cold War, the ncept of secury vettg and the needs of the Amerin alliance end the "one-of-our-chaps" basis on which he had been reced 1952, Turg had to stop the work he had ntued to do for GCHQ, and what he cryptilly referred to as a "crisis" 1953 seems to have volved tense surveillance. It is for this very special and secret reason that his life 1954 might well have seemed impossible to figureSce the 1970s, everythg has homosexualy was crimal until 1967 has e to seem hardly credible, and the unmentnable has bee Bletchley Park breakg story, totally secret 1954, beme public after 1974, and Alan Turg emerged as a Merl-like figure om this hherto dark age, not only a geni of cryptographic theory but wh hands-on rponsibily for the U-boat war.
Alan Turg (1912–1954) was an English mathematician and founr of the science of putg, who did very important cryptographic work durg World War 2, but was later prosecuted for homosexual acts, leadg to his apparent suici.