Alan Turg: The gay Enigma breaker's life and tragic ath

Contents:

• ALAN TURG: GAY BREAKER'S FIANCE KEEPS MEMORY ALIVE
• ALAN TURG: GAY MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD YET DIED DISGRACE
• WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE
• ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
• ALAN TURG LAW: GAY, UNJTLY NVICTED - AND NOW NIED A PARDON
• ALAN TURG WAS A WAR HERO PROSECUTED FOR BEG GAY. HE FALLY GOT A PARDON.
• REMEMBERG ALAN TURG, THE GAY BRISH WAR HERO WHO DIED AFTER BEG PERSECUTED BY HIS UNTRY
• GAY WORLD WAR II HERO ALAN TURG BE FIRST LGBTQ+ PERSON ON BRISH CURRENCY
• ALAN TURG: THE GAY FATHER OF THE MORN PUTER
• THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED GAY SEX SCEN

ALAN TURG: GAY BREAKER'S FIANCE KEEPS MEMORY ALIVE

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.

ALAN TURG: GAY MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD YET DIED DISGRACE

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN

Jam | 19 November 2010 The Relign Vis What do you do to a homosexual mathematician whose -breakg geni saved the world durg World War II?

ALAN TURG LAW: GAY, UNJTLY NVICTED - AND NOW NIED A PARDON

His name is even enshred two of the most important puter-science ncepts, the Turg mache and the Turg Alan Turg hadn’t been homosexual, his name might be a hoehold word like Este, Newton and Galileo. Durg the police vtigatn, me out that Turg was a homosexual. 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.

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

Dpe this, however, he died as a disgraced “crimal” — simply for beg a gay man.

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

“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.

GAY WORLD WAR II HERO ALAN TURG BE FIRST LGBTQ+ PERSON ON BRISH CURRENCY

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.

ALAN TURG: THE GAY FATHER OF THE MORN PUTER

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.

THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED GAY SEX SCEN

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. 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.