Thread by @mariliacout

1 / #LGBTPrideMonth
On this day, June, the 7th, in 1954, Alan Turing a gay man, committed suicide after being convicted of "gross indecency" according to the anti-gay laws then prevalent in England. If you are reading this, you owe it to Turing.
amazon.com/dp/069116472X/…

2 / Alan Turing was an English mathematician who, together with a few other brilliant minds, fathered the field of research that gave humanity the computer, software design and artificial intelligence. Are his biographies exaggerated?
washingtonpost.com/national/healt…

3 / Maybe, but maybe it also misses some of Turing's great contributions (article above). The movie based on the book "Alan Turing: the Enigma" inserted fictional elements.
imdb.com/title/tt208497…

4 / Most important to this day is the fact that his contributions are way broader and more impactful than the movie or the biography suggested.
eprints.soton.ac.uk/262954/

5 / The movie focuses on Turing's participation in the effort of breaking "Enigma", the German ciphers machine. What remains unclear to the spectator is that Turing had created the project of a machine that would process a computer program in 1936.

6 / How much Turing's work contributed to win WWII is impossible to evaluate or quantify. Winning a war is a collective effort. Breaking Enigma, however important, was a small part of Turing's contribution to Humanity.

7 / In 1952, Turing was convicted of "gross indecency" for being gay. His suicide two years later is a consequence of the horrific torture he was subjected to through hormonal treatment. In a sense, he is one of the thousands of gay martyrs.
turing.org.uk/sources/senten…

8 / Unfortunately, the acknowledgment of the government's (and the dark conservative forces of society) guilt in Turing's torture and death came too late:
telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…

9 / Here are Turing's homosexual files:
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

10 / As was the Royal pardon granted by Queen Elizabeth in 2013:
cryptome.org/2013/12/turing…

11 / Let this be a reminder that all the religious zealots, white nationalists, bigots, in general, condone murder and torture. That by promoting intolerance towards #LGBT individuals they are actually promoting death.

12 / Not surprisingly, they tend to overlap with science deniers, anti-abortionists, racists, bigots and white nationalists. They are the scum of Humanity that has always existed and against which, and against all odds, progress still happened.

13 / They are that immense minority of Humanity that always existed and whose sole purpose is to hold back progress. They have leaders - people of a sad memory. I have no empathy for them. That level of authoritarianism has no cure. I devote my life to the other part of Humanity.

14 / I stand with the third verse of Caetano Veloso's great poetry "Profane Cow" (Vaca Profana): LA MALA LECHE PARA LOS PURETAS (the bad milk, that is for the bigots).

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* great poem - damn lack of editing function. I was in the middle of writing about his great poetry in general and shortened it without fixing the word.