Miliband: I'll Bring in Turing's Law
Leader of the Opposition says he will pardon more of the 49,000 men convicted of indecency for having consensual gay sex under what he called… Read More »Miliband: I'll Bring in Turing's Law
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LGBT History Month 2014: Your definitive guide to celebrating diversity in Manchester through music
LGBT History Month 2014: Your definitive guide to celebrating diversity in Manchester through music – Manchester has long been the spiritual home of Britain’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population. Over the coming month people from far and wide will descend on the city for LGBT History Month, an annual celebration of the LGBT community that takes place in February
Petition calls for Bank Holiday to be named after Alan Turing after ‘Margaret Thatcher Day’ controversy
Petition calls for Bank Holiday to be named after Alan Turing after ‘Margaret Thatcher Day’ controversy – A petition has been started to push the Government to rename the August Bank Holiday after late gay computer genius and codebreaker Alan Turing, rather than after Margaret Thatcher.
OFFICIAL – ALAN TURING PARDONED POSTHUMOUSLY
OFFICIAL – ALAN TURING CONVICTION QUASHED
Updated 2nd January 2014 with an interview with Tony Fenwick, co-chair LGBT History Month
The UK Government has officially announced that with effect from midnight on 24th December 2013, openly-gay codebreaker Alan Turing is granted an official posthumous pardon for his 1952 ‘gross indecency’ conviction. Turing, genius mathematician and the founder of the modern computer technology, was found dead in 1954, in an apparent suicide. In 2009 the Government issued an apology for Alan’s homophobic treatment – chemical castration in order to avoid a prison sentence – but had stopped short of a pardon. LGBT History Month are pleased that at least here in Britain, 2013 will end on a positive note for the LGBT community. Co-chair Tony Fenwick will be speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live from 5am today, to comment on the announcement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/on-air
Attitude Magazine unveils Alan Turing cover: ‘The gay man who saved the world’
Attitude Magazine unveils Alan Turing cover: ‘The gay man who saved the world’, tying in with this 2013’s LGBT HM theme of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)
Turing Pardon Bill Due for Second reading This Week
The Alan Turing Pardon Bill, first introduced as a Private members Bill in The House of Lords, will have its second reading in the Lords… Read More »Turing Pardon Bill Due for Second reading This Week
LGBT History Month 2013 Pre-Launch on film and Flickr
Sir John Dermot Turing spoke movingly of his uncle’s arrest – on the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation – and subsequent appalling treatment at… Read More »LGBT History Month 2013 Pre-Launch on film and Flickr
Bletchley Park Goes Rainbow
Sir John Dermot Turing spoke movingly of his uncle’s arrest – on the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation – and subsequent appalling treatment at… Read More »Bletchley Park Goes Rainbow
Turing
Alan Turing could have been 100 years old on June 23rd 2012 and this is his year, with thousands of events all over the world,… Read More »Turing
Turing Could Be on Our Notes
The face of Alan Turing could yet appear on our banknotes it emerged yesterday. After receiving double the required response from members of the public… Read More »Turing Could Be on Our Notes