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dipsydoodle

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6. Was illegal here in those days

Reply to Cherchez la Femme (Reply #5)

Wed Feb 22, 2012, 05:32 PM

Feb 2012

Castration by treatment with female hormones was offered to him as an alternative to prison. Would've been reversible anyway not that that justifies it

Aside from the film Enigma which didn't portray him in that way we've also had two tv documentaries. Breaking the Code 2008 was written with Derek Jacobi in mind. There some clips of that on youtube. The second was on CH4 last November - maybe the US will buy that one.

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Alan Turing's 1950s tiger stripe theory proved [View all] n2doc Feb 2012 OP

very cool. congrats mr turing. nt xchrom Feb 2012 #1

He's the guy who broke the Enigma code in WW2 dipsydoodle Feb 2012 #2

Also outed & prosecuted as a homosexual Cherchez la Femme Feb 2012 #5

Was illegal here in those days dipsydoodle Feb 2012 #6

Saw "Breaking the Code" as both a play and a film in the US. n/t whathehell Feb 2012 #10

No wonder he was working on tiger stripes and leopard prints! grahamhgreen Feb 2012 #12

Sent the article to my biology teacher daughter rurallib Feb 2012 #3

That's a mild way of putting it. Geoff R. Casavant Feb 2012 #4

It was a prison sentence which was mandatory dipsydoodle Feb 2012 #7

by the same token we never had any Jim Crow laws. AlbertCat Feb 2012 #11

Turing was AWESOME Skittles Feb 2012 #8

K&R Solly Mack Feb 2012 #9