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• ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
• REMEMBERG ALAN TURG, THE GAY BRISH WAR HERO WHO DIED AFTER BEG PERSECUTED BY HIS UNTRY
• “BUT HE IS A GAY MAN”
• ALAN TURG, WWII BREAKER WHO WAS CHEMILLY STRATED FOR BEG GAY, CHOSEN TO BE FACE OF BRA'S £50 NOTE
• ALAN TURG EMERG AS IN TO GAYS AND GEEKS ANDREW HODG’ BGRAPHY ‘ALAN TURG: THE ENIGMA’ – LISTEN

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.

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

[Countdown: 10 Milton Gay Rights History]He ntued his work quantum physics and cryptanalytics, but known homosexuals were eligible for secury clearance. 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. 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.

“BUT HE IS A GAY MAN”

Alan Turg took his own life after beg nvicted of gay sex offenc.

Alan Turg was a war hero, a giant of puter science, and a gay man who simply wanted to be able to live eely. It is impossible to speak of Turg’s achievements and legacy whout also mentng the btal, stutnalised homophobia that saw him persecuted as a gay man and ultimately cut his life short. But was around this time that Alan Turg’s life took a turn, as a gay man alive at a time when homosexualy was a crime.

Some 13 years later, 1967, me the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal.

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

It wasn’t until 2009 that the ernment apologised for the treatment Turg received as a gay man by the Brish state. “This regnn of Alan’s stat as one of Bra’s most famo victims of homophobia is another step towards equaly and long overdue. Four years on, 2014, on Turg was granted a posthumo royal pardon, and 2017 a law was passed his name allowg thoands of men nvicted of historil gay sex offenc to apply for a formal pardon.

The begng of the end was when Turg was arrted for vlatn of Bra’s homosexualy statut 1952. Here is a man who has been creded for savg liv durg a world war, and makg outstandg advanc puter science; but he is a gay man, and so the acplishments mean nothg terms of his fate. In fiance of the law, he traveled abroad to Norway and the Mederranean, where gay rights movements were flourishg.

ALAN TURG EMERG AS IN TO GAYS AND GEEKS ANDREW HODG’ BGRAPHY ‘ALAN TURG: THE ENIGMA’ – LISTEN

Sce homosexualy was nsired a secury risk at the time due to misnceived notns of s ntagns and classifitn as a disease, Turg was rtricted om leavg the untry shortly after his trip. He was not tsted after he had been revealed as gay 1952. Many spect that Alan’s apparent suici was propelled by the ernment’s severe rponse to his guilty plea of homosexualy.