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Alan Turing was a fucking hero, and the British legal system drove him to suicide (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wait a second, Alan Turing was a queer icon? I had no idea.

I cannot fathom how anyone can allow people to be punished for loving who they love, in a consenting relationship between two adults. What a terrible and tragic story. Fuck anyone who wants to punish people for doing something that doesn't hurt anyone; for doing something that in fact is literally the direct opposite of hurting anyone. Like, fuck them to the core, and not in any nice way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't say that he's a well-known queer icon, but well-known enough that there's been an enduring myth that the early Apple icon was a reference to him - the apple with a bite taken out of it and colored like a rainbow. However, the designers have said that they had no idea at the time and it was purely coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wait a second, Alan Turing was a queer icon?

Yeah. He's a queer icon, and a god among humans to computer science fans.

It breaks my heart that he didn't get to see the current era of queer federated computing. If there's any kind of after-life, Alan has got to be rooting for the Fediverse.