In honor of Gay Pri month, we highlight a number of LGBTQI+ puter science pneers who played important rol the velopment of morn puter and software technology.
Contents:
- ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
- A TRAGIC ENDG TO A BRILLIANT LIFE (THE GAY MAN WHO INVENTED COMPUTERS)
- WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE
- “BUT HE IS A GAY MAN”
- THE FATHER OF PUTER SCIENCE WAS A GAY AND AN ATHEIST
ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
Alan Turg broke the German Enigma durg World War II and vised the Turg mache and the Turg tt of puter telligence. Unabashedly gay, he mted suici after beg nvicted of homosexual acts. * gay man invented computer *
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.
A TRAGIC ENDG TO A BRILLIANT LIFE (THE GAY MAN WHO INVENTED COMPUTERS)
Dpe this, however, he died as a disgraced “crimal” — simply for beg a gay man.
WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE
“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.
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. LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space. The begng of the end was when Turg was arrted for vlatn of Bra’s homosexualy statut 1952.
“BUT HE IS A GAY MAN”
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.
THE FATHER OF PUTER SCIENCE WAS A GAY AND AN ATHEIST
In fiance of the law, he traveled abroad to Norway and the Mederranean, where gay rights movements were flourishg. 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. 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.