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Queer History & Culture 127: Alan Turing
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Queer History & Culture 127: Alan Turing

A tortured genius whose code-breaking saved millions, only to be destroyed by the very society he protected

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The bastards killed him. Not with bullets or blades, but with something far more insidious—the slow, methodical destruction of a man's soul through legal persecution, chemical castration, and the systematic erasure of his humanity. Alan Mathison Turing didn't just die on June 7, 1954; he was murdered by a society so goddamn backward that it chose to destroy one of the greatest minds in human history rather than accept that he loved men.

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Let that sink in for a fucking moment. The man who cracked the Enigma code, who helped end World War II years earlier than it might have otherwise ended, who laid the theoretical groundwork for every computer you touch, every smartphone you carry, every digital breath of the modern world—this mathematical prophet was hounded to death because he had the audacity to be gay in a world ruled by small-minded, fear-soaked bigots.

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