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 LAW: GAY, UNJTLY NVICTED - AND NOW NIED A PARDON
- REMEMBERG ALAN TURG, THE GAY BRISH WAR HERO WHO DIED AFTER BEG PERSECUTED BY HIS UNTRY
- ALAN TURG, EL PADRE LA PUTACIóN STRADO POR SER GAY, RECIBE PERDóN REAL
- ALAN TURG: GAY MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD YET DIED DISGRACE
ALAN TURG LAW: GAY, UNJTLY NVICTED - AND NOW NIED A PARDON
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. 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Turg’s ath an apparent suici, his battle wh his sexualy and longg for a permanent relatnship have emerged three prevly unpublished rrponnce dat om the 1950s when, after beg found guilty of gross cency wh a 19-year-old man, he had been sentenced to chemil treatment was tend to supprs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.
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.
REMEMBERG ALAN TURG, THE GAY BRISH WAR HERO WHO DIED AFTER BEG PERSECUTED BY HIS UNTRY
The punishment for homosexualy was chemil stratn, a seri of hormone jectns that left Turg impotent.
ALAN TURG, EL PADRE LA PUTACIóN STRADO POR SER GAY, RECIBE PERDóN REAL
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. Image ptn, Alan Turg, wartime -breaker and putg pneer, was posthumoly pardoned 2013Two years ago the "Turg law" was passed to right a historic jtice by pardong gay men nvicted the past bee of their sexualy.
Terry Stewart is 66 and the recipient of an award for his work advisg the police on LGBT as a young man 1981 he was a target: spotted by a pair of police officers a Charg Cross public toilet, he was arrted for "importung" - an outdated offence which effectively crimalised gay men chattg each other up public.
ALAN TURG: GAY MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD YET DIED DISGRACE
There was nobody there, " he outspoken mpaigner for gay rights who had challenged police the past, Mr Stewart feels the arrt was typil of a prevailg "hostile atmosphere" agast gay people at the time.