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Biden pardons thousands of US veterans convicted under law banning gay sex
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Just wait until you learn about Alan Turing, the guy who made the Turing Machine (considered the first computer).
He committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide because the US government chemically castrated gay men like him - forced them to take drugs so that they couldn't "get it up" to prevent them from committing "deviant behavior".
And that wasn't outside the norm 100 years ago for governments to do.
As much as the US government sucks in this department, Turing was a UK citizen suffering under UK law, not US.
He was British. It was the UK government.
Just a correction, it isn’t entirely certain whether he killed himself or not. The apple wasn’t tested for cyanide and the chances he just inhaled too much while working are considerable.
Well, not that it changes anything about the horrible treatment he received because of his orientation though.
Fyi, an alternative interpretation of the Turing Test was an allegory for his homosexuality.
It wasn’t the US.