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How will today’s transgender martyrs will be seen by history?
Members of the trans community often suffer the consequences of other truth tellers from the past.
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UK spy agency chief apologizes for old prejudice about gays
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.
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New LGBTQ organization to focus on fighting inequality internationally
Alturi seeks to “educate and engage individual supporters who want to help improve the lives of LGBTI people around the world.”
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‘Imitation Game’ code breaker Alan Turing’s notebook fetches over $1M at auction
The 56-page manuscript was written at the time the mathematician and computer science pioneer was working to break the seemingly unbreakable Enigma codes used by the Germans throughout the war.
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Graham Moore’s Oscar speech was not intended for LGBT kids
Moore is not gay. His speech was not about LGBT youth, many of whom experience depression because of the homophobia and transphobia in which our culture is mired. His speech was not even about the reality of Alan Turing’s life itself.
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Graham Moore’s Oscar‑worthy acceptance speech for ‘Imitation Game’ – #StayWeird
Graham Moore, who on Sunday won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Imitation Game,” took the opportunity to give a powerful acceptance speech calling awareness to teen suicide and depression, recalling his own attempt at suicide at age 16.
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Cumberbatch, Fry urge UK to pardon gays convicted under ‘gross indecency’ law
Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch has joined others in calling for the British government to pardon gay and bisexual men convicted in the past under the defunct “gross indecency” law.
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Review: Cumberbatch shines as gay wartime codebreaker Alan Turing
‘Tis clearly the season for Oscar-worthy performances by British actors playing mathematical geniuses facing daunting personal odds. Sound overly specific? Consider: A few weeks ago we had “The Theory of Everything,” starring Eddie Redmayne as the brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking. And now we have Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation Game” as Alan Turing…
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The ‘enigma’ Alan Turing, chronicled in new film ‘The Imitation Game’
Germany’s top-secret World War II code was called “Enigma,” and the gay Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code — Alan Turing — was very much an enigma himself. CBS News’ Anthony Mason reports on Turing’s life, which is chronicled in the new film, “The Imitation Game” (out next month). It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as…
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Queen pardons famed code breaker, ‘convicted homosexual’ Alan Turing
LONDON — Nearly 60 years after his death, Queen Elizabeth II has formally pardon famed British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing.