[ucc] Alan Turing

[Tom Lynch]

* Davyd Madeley <davyd at zdlcomputing.com> [2004-06-09 16:50:37 +0800]:

> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 16:47 +0800, Chris Coman wrote:
> > And he was gay!
> 
> Is this actually canon, or a creation of Neal Stephenson? I've never
> been able to get a /straight/ answer on the matter.

Never been able?  Pah, must never have tried then.

http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/

Committed suicide after being chemically castrated due to 
his homosexuality.

Tom.