Worth putting ones name to.

[essayel]

I don't normally do petitions, but this is worth signing. Alan Turing was a gentle and intelligent man who was responsible for enormous strides in the genesis of modern computer technology. He was also gay at a time when that was a crime, was arrested, convicted, 'treated'with oestrogen in an attempt to 'cure' him [the alternative was imprisonment] and as a result his career was ruined and he took his own life.

Poking Her Majesties Government to remind them that barbarities have been practiced in the past and better bloody hadn't happen again is always useful.

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[latestarter]

Done.

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

almost makes me wish I was British so I could sign..

[britalone.livejournal.com]

This was a dreadful thing that happened. But why bring it up now? Has something happened to bring this poor man back into the limelight?

[cweb.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I can't sign, but I'll direct my daughter there...she's a citizen.