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A final thought for Pride Month 2022.

This is Alan. Alan ended his own life on 7th June 1954. He laced an apple with cyanide and ate a bite from it. He did this because the British government chemically castrated, humiliated and prosecuted him for being gay.

Alan is the reason why a chunk is bitten out of the Apple logo…in honour of Alan Turing.

Ok so what did he do? He invented computer science and using his first designs he decrypted the Enigma code - the machine base encryption that the Nazis and the German military used to communicate secret commands to each other in world war 2 - and hence he both saved millions of lives and brought us into the modern age of computing.

Pride month isn’t just about dancing on floats in gold hot pants or flying a rainbow flag. It’s about remembering that everyone has a right to be happy, love who they want to love, and recognise the outstanding contribution that everyone can make in a society free of fear or prejudice.

Remembering Alan…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
Jay Bryant diaspora
One of my heroes, and I'm still mad at the British government about how they treated him. They released a bank note with his picture on it a few years ago, like that's a replacement for a great man and mind cut down in his prime.
He would have been alive in my lifetime and contributed as an amazing scientist
Jay Bryant diaspora
Yeah. I wonder sometimes what we lost. That's not as important as someone being able to live as they wish (while doing no harm, of course, as I'm sure Turing would have done).
Tx for the posting. I regard myself as straight. That is why it upsets me how all humans who are not 100% straight still are discriminated. In some regions still by law. In many, too many parts of the world still by society.

Even here in Germany, where we now are used to high rank non-straight politicians and have marriage for all, still here we see discrimination of non-straight humans.
Bob Lai diaspora
It's fair to say that without Turing's work on the bombe (computer), not only would we have not cracked Enigma (it had eluded Britain's best minds), modern computing would not exist as it does today, including 'smart assistants' like Alexa and Siri.
Aarno diaspora
I wish that pride was more about talking of all those LGBT people who made major contributions to human science or culture, rather than dragqueens dancing on floats. I think it would be much more efficient to fight for LGBT rights.
The drag queens at Pride are the only thing popular media appears to show, trying to make everything look like a circus. I suspect that part is entertainment for straight people and the corporate hijacking of pride.
Bob Lai diaspora
If you can't accept the drag queens, why should I expect that you'd accept a doctor, or a cryptographer/computer expert, or an LGBTQ+ anything else?

However, I still have an issue with 'months,' as they often show only a sliver of the demographic they purport to honor, and it's always 'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'Barbershop' and 'Drag Queens' and 'safe' little pigeonholes.

Brought to you by AT&T, of course.
No one want’s to stop pantomime dames cavorting, but they don’t really merit their own show. Pantomime dame is a bit part. Usually played by someone with a more worthwhile claim to fame.
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Ted diaspora
Alan is the reason why a chunk is bitten out of the Apple logo…in honour of Alan Turing.
This part of the story seems to be a fabrication. Too bad!

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