Turing was gay?

[Stormy]

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

I've read up on Turing (Turing Test), but had no idea that he was gay, or that he had been forced to be chemically castrated. I knew he committed suicide, but nothing I read told me about this.

Better late than never.

[Kefka Jr.]

Re: Turing was gay?

A friend of mine, also a gay intellectual, wrote a fictionalized account of the end of Turing's life as his honor's thesis.

The dude was pretty amazing.

I should... read that thesis sometime.

[John Mora]

Re: Turing was gay?

Did the fictionalized account include epic space wars?

[altoecko]

Re: Turing was gay?

Turing was an AMAZING man and it is a terrible shame what the British government did to him. His contributions to Computer Science and Science as a whole shall never be forgotten.

[Kefka Jr.]

Re: Turing was gay?

Did the fictionalized account include epic space wars?

If it wasn't for Turing, the Allies would never have secured victory in World War II, nor World War III.

[John Mora]

Re: Turing was gay?

Those aren't in space. If you're going to fictionalize events, fictionalize them!

[Wavelength]

Re: Turing was gay?

Yes, Turing was gay.

And our world would be a better place right now if people 50 years ago had the three brain cells necessary to let him be what he was.

[Eso Teric]

Re: Turing was gay?

People still don't have those 3, today.

[Stormy]

Re: Turing was gay?

Yeah, it really is horrible what happened to him. He was a brilliant mathematician and contributed greatly to various computer related fields, in addition to his invaluable efforts in breaking the Enigma codes and allowing the Allies to gain the advantage in the Atlantic necessary for Operation Torch.

And Eso is right, which is even more horrible. Not necessarily because it makes him right either