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• ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
• WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG GETS ROYAL PARDON FOR GAY NVICTN
• FILM ABOUT WW2 BREAKER ALAN TURG IS ATTACKED BY BGRAPHER FOR EXAGGERATG LOVE AFFAIR WH WOMAN BEE HE WAS GAY AND SAYS KEIRA KNIGHTLEY IS 'TOO GLAMORO'

ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN

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activy, which was illegal at the time – is “a sentence we would now nsir unjt and discrimatory and which has now been repealed, ” Graylg said.

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.

WWII BREAKER ALAN TURG GETS ROYAL PARDON FOR GAY NVICTN

" 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. Instead, by the narrow standards of his day, his reputatn was June 7, 1954, Alan Turg, a Brish mathematician who has sce been acknowledged as one the most novative and powerful thkers of the 20th century — sometim lled the progenor of morn putg — died as a crimal, havg been nvicted unr Victorian laws as a homosexual and forced to endure chemil stratn.

Bra didn’t take s first steps toward crimalizg homosexualy until 2009 did the ernment apologize for his treatment. “Alan and the many thoands of other gay men who were nvicted, as he was, unr homophobic laws were treated terribly.

FILM ABOUT WW2 BREAKER ALAN TURG IS ATTACKED BY BGRAPHER FOR EXAGGERATG LOVE AFFAIR WH WOMAN BEE HE WAS GAY AND SAYS KEIRA KNIGHTLEY IS 'TOO GLAMORO'

Among his enthiasms were his work on var scientific them, cludg morphogenis, the theory of growth and form blogy; his ntued secret ti to Bra’s postwar breakers; and long-distance was also, Hodg said, begng to explore the homosexual inty he had hidn when he proposed marriage 1941 to Joan Clarke, a Bletchley Park cryptanalyst. At the time, Hodg wrote, known homosexuals were nied secury clearanc, which meant that Turg uld not be volved secret work durg the Cold War, leavg him exclud and embtered. Brish mathematician Alan Turg, who helped crack Nazi Germany's 'Enigma' and laid the groundwork for morn putg, was pardoned on Tuday, six s after his nvictn for homosexualy is said to have driven him to suici.

The Associated Prs reports: "Turg ma no secret of his sexualy, and beg gay uld easily lead to prosecutn post-war Bra. 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.

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. 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.