Gay Computer Scientist Alan Turg Beats Out MLK, Manla as BBC’s Most Inic Figure of 20th Century | Hor, the Queer Social Network

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• ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
• GAY COMPUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURG BEATS OUT MLK, MANLA AS BBC’S MOST INIC FIGURE OF 20TH CENTURY
• ALAN TURG: INIC GAY WAR-TIME SCIENTIST
• ALAN TURG WAS A WAR HERO PROSECUTED FOR BEG GAY. HE FALLY GOT A PARDON.
• ALAN TURG, WWII BREAKER WHO WAS CHEMILLY STRATED FOR BEG GAY, CHOSEN TO BE FACE OF BRA'S £50 NOTE
• WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE

ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN

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. 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.

GAY COMPUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURG BEATS OUT MLK, MANLA AS BBC’S MOST INIC FIGURE OF 20TH CENTURY

In honor of Gay Pri and the anniversary of Stonewall, we‘re highlightg a group of pneers of puter science: people who were (or are) lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Generally regard as the “father” of theoretil putg science and artificial telligence, Alan Turg is the name that most often to md when people thk about an fluential gay puter science pneer. ” Turg’s life had a tragic endg: arrted and prosecuted for “gross cency” when thori disvered he was gay, he mted suici by gtg cyani and died at the age of 41.

ALAN TURG: INIC GAY WAR-TIME SCIENTIST

Strachey studied mathematics and physics at Kgs College, Cambridge, where he suffered a nervo breakdown durg his third year (which his sister attributed to his stggl to e to terms wh his homosexualy). In the early 1970s he beme volved wh the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), and the later part of his life beme more and more voted to gay rights activism.

ALAN TURG WAS A WAR HERO PROSECUTED FOR BEG GAY. HE FALLY GOT A PARDON.

Edh “Edie” Wdsor is bt known as a gay rights activist who was the lead platiff the landmark Supreme Court Case Uned Stat v. Wdsor, which overturned Sectn 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and led to the legalizatn of gay marriage.

In 2012, Hall me out as gay an article published Lux Magaze. He was part of a group of fluential gay puter scientists.

Land was openly bisexual, and an activist volved wh the Gay Liberatn Front durg the 1970s.

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

Turg was an openly gay man the 1950’s and was nvicted of gross cency after beg arrted. As part of a live vote among watchers of a recent BBC Two broadst, gay puter scientist Alan Turg — dubbed “the father of theoretil puter science and artificial telligence” and the man who helped Allied Forc feat the Nazis WWII due to his help crackg d msag — has been named the most inic figure of the 20th century. The velopment of Turg’s “Enigma Mache” at Bletchley Park durg WWII ma up the story of the 2015 film The Imatn Game, which the gay puter scientist was portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Gay puter scientist Alan Turg. After the war, 1952, the gay puter scientist was prosecuted unr the Uned Kgdom’s crimalizatn of homosexualy. In 2017, thoands of other Brish gay and bisexual men were fally pardoned.

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

What do you thk of gay puter scientist Alan Turg beg honored as the most inic figure of the 20th century? 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.