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• ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
• WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG BE 1ST GAY MAN ON A BRISH BANK NOTE
• ALAN TURG: GAY BREAKER'S FIANCE KEEPS MEMORY ALIVE
• VIO: QUEEN UNVEILS MONUMENT AT BLETCHLEY PARK, HOME OF GAY GENI BREAKER ALAN TURG
• ALAN TURG ART 'FIRST' TO CELEBRATE BREAKER AS GAY
• LORDS BILL TRODUCED TO PARDON GAY BREAKER ALAN TURG
• COBREAKER- AN UNSUNG GAY HERO- FREE EVENT
• CODGGAY

ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN

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.

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

He killed himself 1954 after beg chemilly strated for homosexual activy. Alan Turg, a Brish -breaker durg World War II who was later subjected to chemil stratn for homosexual activy, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he mted suici.

Turg’s stratn 1952 – after he was nvicted of homosexual activy, which was illegal at the time – is “a sentence we would now nsir unjt and discrimatory and which has now been repealed, ” Graylg said. Dpe this, however, he died as a disgraced “crimal” — simply for beg a gay man. “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.

ALAN TURG: GAY BREAKER'S FIANCE KEEPS MEMORY ALIVE

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. The world's bt banknote signs Show all 16Dpe his mathematil and scientific geni, Turg was also openly gay and the 1950s was nvicted of gross cency for his relatnship wh a Turg, who crypted Nazi msag, was granted a posthumo royal pardon 2013 (Rex)From his nvictn to royal pardong, here’s everythg you need to know about was Turg nvicted for homosexual acts?

VIO: QUEEN UNVEILS MONUMENT AT BLETCHLEY PARK, HOME OF GAY GENI BREAKER ALAN TURG

In 1952, Turg was arrted for havg a relatnship wh 19-year-old Arnold Murray as homosexualy was illegal at the later admted to “acts of gross cency” at a trial and unrwent chemil treatment volv the e of anaphrodisiac dgs to rce libido and sexual activy. An qut nclud that his ath me as a rult of law legalisg homosexualy, which crimalised homosexual acts private between two men aged 21 or over, was passed 1967, entled The Sexual Offenc Act is timated that around 49, 000 people were nvicted unr siar outdated laws until homosexualy was crimalised has been done to rectify this?

“We’re sorry, you served so much better, ” Brown wrote a statement published on the No 10 former prime mister add: “This regnn of Alan’s stat as one of Bra’s most famo victims of homophobia is another step towards equaly and long fay of Alan Turg livered a petn to Downg Street signed by almost half a ln people llg for more than 49, 000 Brish gay men to be officially pardoned“But even more than that, Alan serv regnn for his ntributn to humankd … It is thanks to men and women who were totally mted to fightg fascism, people like Alan Turg, that the horrors of the Holot and of total war are part of Europe’s history and not Europe’s prent.

“His later life was overshadowed by his nvictn for homosexual activy, a sentence we would now nsir unjt and discrimatory and which has now been repealed. ”The pardon me to effect on 24 December followg years of mpaigng om Turg’s 2016, Thera May said her ernment was “mted” to troducg an “Alan Turg law”, through an amendment to the Policg and Crime Bill, which would pardon thoands of gay men nvicted unr historic gross cency crim for nsensual same-sex relatnships. “A geni, a savur, but he was also tistic and gay.

ALAN TURG ART 'FIRST' TO CELEBRATE BREAKER AS GAY

”Novelist Ian McEwan, gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell, and scientist Richard Dawks have also shown their support for will Turg feature on the new bank note?

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. 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.

LORDS BILL TRODUCED TO PARDON GAY BREAKER ALAN TURG

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. 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.

COBREAKER- AN UNSUNG GAY HERO- FREE EVENT

But the man was a marathon nner as well as a sexually active homosexual man, and not only did the dg ravage his body and affect his physily but also started slowly to impge on his faculty, on his md, on his abily to do that work. In 1954, Turg mted suici at age 41 after beg forced to unrgo chemil stratn bee he was gay.

In particular, The Queen paid tribute to the gay breaker Alan Turg, who was later forced to unrgo chemil stratn after beg nvicted of homosexualy.

CODGGAY

Alan and the many thoands of other gay men who were nvicted as he was nvicted unr homophobic laws were treated terribly.