Queer News
- Middle-school teen boy in New York blinded in anti-gay attack
- Absence of male role-models not affecting children of lesbian parents
- Queensland downgrades civil partnerships and will ban gay surrogacy
- Second Kiev Gay Pride parade organizer attacked and hospitalised
- Airport security accuses man of being paedophile because he’s gay
- Salvation Army says unrepentant homosexuals deserving of death
Other News
- Yet another study confirms global warming is indeed human-caused
- ACTA rejected by committee in crucial blow before final EU Parliament vote
- Canadian version of draconian SOPA copyright rules close to becoming law
- Egyptian Military grants itself sweeping powers; effectively military coup
- Men outnumber women among American rape victims due to prison rape
- WikiLeaks founder & whistle-blower Julian Assange requests asylum in Ecuador
This Saturday, June 23rd, would have marked the 100th birthday of Alan Turing. A visionary mathematician, logician and code breaker, Turing was a pioneer in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. A linchpin member of Ultra, Britain’s World War II counterintelligence team, Turing created the electro-mechanical, code-decrypting "bombe" that deciphered countless intercepted Nazi communications.
Turing’s involvement in the war effort saved thousands of lives — and his contributions to science, technology, philosophy and literature have touched billions. It’s time to celebrate his amazing legacy.
Despite his myriad contributions to society, in 1952, Turing was imprisoned for the same reason Oscar Wilde was once dragged into a court for. He was forced to choose between imprisonment and chemical castration, when investigations into his personal life brought his homosexuality to light. He opted for the latter. Two years later he committed suicide. "The debt of gratitude he is owed makes it all the more horrifying, therefore, that he was treated so inhumanely," said British Prime Minster Gordon Brown, in a posthumous apology delivered in 2009. "We’re sorry, you deserved so much better." Read on…
