homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay
People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.
Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis
The Alan Turing statue on my campus
I used to live down the road from Bletchley, home of Bletchley Park where Alan Turing worked. Not too far from it there’s an LBGT club called Pink Punters, and there there’s an art installation which according to its creators is
“the world’s first public work to recognise him as a gay man.”
(The club itself also has a room called “The Alan Turing Room”)
