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Dec 24, 2013 09:40

Alan Turing is considered the father of modern computing. He was also instrumental is breaking German code during WWII  at Bletchley Park with a machine called Enigma. Yet the man was gay, "homosexual" they called it then and it was illegal in the U.K. and many other places. In 1952 he was convicted of homosexuality and chemically castrated. He ( Read more... )

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ephemera December 24 2013, 21:07:18 UTC
I do wonder if the film was the final thing that tipped the scale...

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tvor December 25 2013, 02:20:04 UTC
Coincidence? I think not.

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