Alan Turing

• Birth date: 1912
  

Both the American and British governments have taken the first steps toward reckoning with their past ostracization of LGBTQ servicemembers. But more must be done.

Despite his essential work in WWII, Turing was punished by the British government for his sexuality.

The bill also includes Turing’s birthday in binary, formulae from his papers, and a quote.

The root of the inequalities in the United States and many other nations rests on a foundation, a system, of patriarchal white supremacy benefiting from so-called laissez-faire “free market” capitalist economics.

We do not have to wait for another crisis to come our way for us to respond proactively.

“The Imitation Game” portrays Alan Turing as a weak whiny, and possibly a traitor to his country. But the real Alan Turing was a hero.

Turing was a gay mathematician who figured out how to decode Nazi messages in WW2. After the war he was prosecuted for having a relationship with another man.

Despite the size and popularity of Pride, the United Kingdom has had a long struggle with queer rights.

Turing is a frontrunner to replace inventor James Watt on the redesigned bank note.

“We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.”

Chicago’s Legacy Walk teaches our history in a unique and fascinating manner.

Melville Farr refused to be a victim, but eight years before Stonewall might as well have been eighty.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of adult same-sex sexual expression in England.

The antigay law that dated back to the 19th century was used to vigorously prosecute gay men in the post-war era.

Those people, including some lesbians, convicted for same-sex kissing and cuddling under laws such as the Public Order Act of 1986, are not eligible for a pardon.

The WWII hero saved millions of lives before being chemically castrated for being gay. He killed himself two years later.

A Conservative Party lawmaker filibustered a bill that would have cleared men of convictions from antigay laws that have since been overturned.

The pardons apply to men convicted for consensual same-sex sexual relations before homosexuality was decriminalized several decades ago.

Members of the trans community often suffer the consequences of other truth tellers from the past.

The speech offered a poignant tribute to Turing, the gay computer science pioneer and architect of the effort to crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma cipher.