Alan Turg was a gay war hero and mathematician who broke the Enigma at Bletchley Park WWII, but his story end tragedy.
Contents:
- 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
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[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.
REMEMBERG ALAN TURG, THE GAY BRISH WAR HERO WHO DIED AFTER BEG PERSECUTED BY HIS UNTRY
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.
“BUT HE IS A GAY MAN”
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 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.
ALAN TURG, WWII BREAKER WHO WAS CHEMILLY STRATED FOR BEG GAY, CHOSEN TO BE FACE OF BRA'S £50 NOTE
Some 13 years later, 1967, me the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal.
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.
ALAN TURG EMERG AS IN TO GAYS AND GEEKS ANDREW HODG’ BGRAPHY ‘ALAN TURG: THE ENIGMA’ – LISTEN
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.