Alan Turg: Gay Man who Saved the World yet Died Disgrace

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Turg’s ath an apparent suici, his battle wh his sexualy and longg for a permanent relatnship have emerged three prevly unpublished rrponnce dat om the 1950s when, after beg found guilty of gross cency wh a 19-year-old man, he had been sentenced to chemil treatment was tend to supprs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.

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.

ALAN TURG, EL PADRE LA PUTACIóN STRADO POR SER GAY, RECIBE PERDóN REAL

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he was a target: spotted by a pair of police officers a Charg Cross public toilet, he was arrted for "importung" - an outdated offence which effectively crimalised gay men chattg each other up public.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. "Mr Stewart was nvicted on a majory verdict and fed £20, but a crimal rerd meant he uld not pursue his chosen reer social is now one of thoands of gay men unable to obta the pardons offered by the ernment sce 2017, which were tend for people unjtly nvicted bee of their Mr Stewart and many like him, is bee the offence they were nvicted of - importung - is not one of those eligible for a pardon, spe the ernment acknowledgg was ed a discrimatory are put off om even applyg by an timidatg, burecratic system, say source, Terry StewartImage ptn, Gay people were persecuted durg an "absolutely horrendo" perd, says Terry StewartAs many as 15, 000 gay men were said to be eligible when the law was passed, spired by the posthumo pardon of World War Two -breaker Alan Turg, who killed himself after beg nvicted of gross law meant the nvictns of about 50, 000 gay men who had died were tomatilly leted, while those still alive uld apply for statutory pardons.

Applitns for pardons were tacked on to an existg Home Office scheme, where gay men uld apply for some offenc unr laws which are now repealed to be "disregard" or to date, only 189 of the applitns have been approved. As a rult, few pardons have been nvictns eligible for disregard and pardon are gross cency and buggery unr the 1956 Sexual Offenc Act, equivalent ary offenc and siar offenc unr earlier Stewart says the ernment should live up to s promis and pardon all gay men wh nvictns for their sexualy.