Government Communications chief regrets treatment of codebreaker Alan Turing
The head of the Government Communications Headquarters has expressed regret at the way Alan Turing, a gay World War Two codebreaker, was treated in the years leading up to his suicide. Iain Lobban,...
View ArticleComment: Time is right to pardon Alan Turing
Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Labour Party member Andrew Pakes says the government must issue gay scientist and computing pioneer Alan Turing with an official pardon. Earlier this month, Labour...
View ArticleLondon: Islington and Camden to host UK’s ‘biggest’ LGBT History Month...
Organisers in the London boroughs of Islington and Camden say February’s programme of events for LGBT History Month will be the largest in the UK. The nationwide theme for LGBT History Month in 2013...
View ArticleQueen grants gay war hero Alan Turing a posthumous pardon
The Queen has granted a posthumous pardon to the gay World War Two hero Alan Turing under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy. Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency in 1952, after having a relationship...
View ArticleTel Aviv: Memorial for gay victims of the Holocaust unveiled
A memorial honouring gay victims of the Holocaust has been unveiled in Tel Aviv. It features a concrete pink triangle, the same symbol used by the Nazis to mark someone as gay. City councilman and...
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New Auschwitz ‘showers’ cause visitor outrage
Management at the former Nazi concentration camp have caused controversy by installing sprinklers above entrances to the site. When the team in charge of the Auschwitz Memorial installed sprinklers...
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‘Nazi grandma’ jailed for denying the Holocaust ever happened
Fascist Ursula Haverbeck was jailed for ten months. An 87-year-old grandmother has been imprisoned for 10 months after she insisted that Auschwitz was “not historically proven” to be a death camp....
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Rare Alan Turing postcard fetches nearly £30k at auction
A postcard written by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for £28,000 at auction. 41 at the time, Turing sent the postcard from Corfu in 1953, a year before he killed himself by taking...
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World War Two gay love letters could get Hollywood adaptation
The lost love letters between two gay world war two soldiers have sparked possible Hollywood interest. Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher’s romantic letters were written during in the war, where they...
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How underground magazines helped liberate gay men in the Cold War
In an extract from his new book, Lukasz Szulc explores life behind the gay magazines in Communist Poland. Born in 1948 in communist Poland, Andrzej Selerowicz immigrated to Vienna in the late 1970s,...
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Alan Turing’s teachers called his school work ‘weak’ and ‘vague’
Alan Turing is widely considered to be a codebreaking genius who helped win World War Two. But it turns out his own school teachers were less than impressed with some of his work. Newly released school...
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Hitler had ‘homosexual streak’ according to secret CIA files
Adolf Hitler had a “homosexual streak” according to secret CIA files which detail his personality and interests. The 70-page report was compiled in 1942 and was sent from Dr Henry Field, a top aide for...
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13 things you really need to know about the ‘rainbow poppy’
Discourse surrounding the ‘rainbow poppy’ – also known as the LGBT+ poppy – has been dominating Twitter in the last few days, so we thought we’d set the record straight once and for all. 1. OK, first...
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Far-right Polish thugs mark the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising by burning...
Far-right thugs burned rainbow flags as they marched through Warsaw as they staged a demonstration on Saturday. The march to mark the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising – resistance against the Nazis...
View ArticlePoland’s hateful crusade against LGBT+ folk compared to dehumanising...
A gay Polish politician and MEP has compared the treatment of LGBT+ people in Poland to the way Jewish people were “dehumanised” before World War Two. Robert Biedron is a gay politician and LGBT+...
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Stolen artefacts belonging to gay World War Two hero Alan Turing to finally...
Stolen items belonging to gay computing genius and codebreaking hero Alan Turing are to be returned to the UK after decades. The haul of 17 items include five rare photographs of the Bletchley Park...
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History made as £50 note featuring gay war hero Alan Turing enters circulation
The Bank of England’s newly-designed £50 note featuring the portrait of Alan Turing, the gay computing pioneer and World War Two code-breaker, has entered circulation. In dropping Wednesday (23 June),...
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Giant rainbow tribute to pioneering gay war hero Alan Turing unveiled at GCHQ
A giant artwork of Alan Turing has been revealed at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), as he becomes the face of the new £50 note on his birthday (23 June). The 10 by 10 metre rainbow...
View ArticlePot, stock (& two smoking barrels)
One of the (let’s be honest, rather many) obstacles to me becoming a vegetarian – as opposed to a passionate lover of all kinds of veg – would be what do to about stock. I often toy, more than idly,...
View ArticleA Woman of Style, Substance & Hedgehog Slice
I have just heard tonight that Mrs Spain, one of my mother’s dearest friends, died this week. My mum died 15 years ago, and I haven’t kept properly in touch with her friends … so it came as a great...
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