Alan Turing - Forgotten Hero
We can sometimes forget how far we’ve come in LGBT equality and how dreadful things were for gay people in the recent past. Alan Turing’s case exemplifies all those people whose productive lives were curtailed because of irrational prejudice. Alan Turing was a British hero but he was treated abominably by the state. This is the man who helped crack the Nazi wartime code Enigma at Station X in Bletchley Park, thus playing a crucial part in winning the war; this is the man who basically invented computers; and this is the man who ended his life at the early age of 41 by taking cyanide after being hounded by the British state.
