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- ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
- GAY COMPUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURG BEATS OUT MLK, MANLA AS BBC’S MOST INIC FIGURE OF 20TH CENTURY
- GAY COMPUTER SCIENTISTS RE-WRG HUMAN HISTORY -SMH
ALAN TURG BGRAPHY: COMPUTER PNEER, GAY IN
In honor of Gay Pri month, we highlight a number of LGBTQI+ puter science pneers who played important rol the velopment of morn puter and software technology. * gay computer scientists *
I wanted to wre an article celebratg the works of the most fluential gay, lbian, transgenr and bisexual novators, ventors and scientists throughout history. However, there was a are jt not many lists of famo homosexuals the homosexualy has often been associated wh the arts and creativy, has never been as openly accepted wh the scientific muny.
GAY COMPUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURG BEATS OUT MLK, MANLA AS BBC’S MOST INIC FIGURE OF 20TH CENTURY
A lot of LGBT scientists did not 'e out' the past bee they lived a time where beg gay or bisexual or transgenr was que simply not accepted. But they don't have to do that anymore. So let's solve this lack of knowledge about LGBT scientists. Here are seven scientists you probably didn't know were LGBT (or maybe you didn't even know they existed!). * gay computer scientists *
Ined, beg a homosexual was a crimal offense many untri until recently (and many untri, ntu to be today), which will have prevented many historil figur om g out of the closet. In the UK, before 1967 (jt over 50 years ago) homosexualy ed to be punishable by sentenc as harsh as life imprisonment.
As a rult, many of history’s greatt homosexual scientists may have hidn their te inty.
GAY COMPUTER SCIENTISTS RE-WRG HUMAN HISTORY -SMH
Alan Turg broke the German Enigma durg World War II and vised the Turg mache and the Turg tt of puter telligence. Unabashedly gay, he mted suici after beg nvicted of homosexual acts. * gay computer scientists *
However, the gay muny has a long history of ntributns to science and I have piled a number of proment novators, scientists, and ventors who were LGBTQ, as they have eher openly admted to beg gay or historil rerds of their relatnships strongly suggt they were (see sourc at bottom of the article). Historil not believe that he was primarily homosexual.
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