“The Imatn Game” tells the story of Alan Turg, the gay Brish mathematician and World War II breaker who was nvicted 1952 on charg of cency.
Contents:
- ALAN TURG: GAY MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD YET DIED DISGRACE
- ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN
- ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN RX
ALAN TURG: GAY MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD YET DIED DISGRACE
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ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN
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ON BEG A GAY MATHEMATICIAN RX
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In 1952 a gay lover helped an acplice rob Turg’s hoe. Durg the police vtigatn, me out that Turg was a homosexual.
He was also forthrightly gay at a time when homosexual activy was illegal Bra, and 1952, he was nvicted on charg of cency. Hollywood is “not really signed around makg movi about gay English mathematicians, ” Graham Moore, who wrote the script for “The Imatn Game, ” said a recent email. Alan Turg, a crack -breaker and visnary mathematician who was nvicted unr Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Bra’s new £50 note.
Supporters have long mpaigned for Turg to receive greater regnn for his work and official acknowledgment that his nvictn for homosexual activy was wrong. Turg, who was openly gay at a time when homosexualy was a crime Bra, talked his way to a job helpg the Brish crack the German lled Enigma. On the way the state punished Turg for beg gay It's disgtg to thk that wh ls than 100 years [that] this was gog on hundreds — thoands fact — of men were prosecuted and given the chance to choose simply between two years' imprisonment or two years' state-sanctned chemil stratn through weekly trogen jectns.