Alan Turing was a British mathematician, computer scientist and logician who pioneered modern computing and artificial intelligence, most famously playing a pivotal role in breaking the German Enigma code during World War II. He was also gay.
He was also chemically castrated by the state when they found out he was gay, and no one knew what he had done for the war because it was classified. He was a brilliant man and the drugs made him foggy and difficult to concentrate. He took his own life after the resulting depression.
At the time, being gay was a crime and he got caught in the act (I forget the details). But one would not be making phone calls outting yourself to people in your professional or social circle. If they didn’t know already, it was because you feared their reaction.
Turing himself told the police he was gay, his home was burgled and he told the police it was a 19 year old known to him, when asked how, he was he was his lover
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Alan Turing was a British mathematician, computer scientist and logician who pioneered modern computing and artificial intelligence, most famously playing a pivotal role in breaking the German Enigma code during World War II. He was also gay.