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Fight Begins To Secure Turing Papers For Bletchley Park Museum
Blacklaw writes "Auction house Christie's is planning to sell offprints of Alan Turing's early work for an estimated £500,000 — and the fight has begun to raise the money so UK codebreaking museum and charity Bletchley Park can house the documents in the building where Turing performed his war-winning work and birthed the concept of a modern 'universal computer.' If the money isn't raised, the papers could disappear into a private archive, never to be seen again."
Oh please, everyone has and/or is aware of the gay at some stage if they went through Public school, and no-one cared or cares. He would normally have been left alone, so he must have been picked on because it was in some way politically expedient. In the worst case, it was mirroring the homosexuality scapegoat of US intelligence; more likely he had a combination of opinions and information that the government didn't want him to have any more. Who knows?
All that's clear is that it wasn't just "because he was gay", because he was neither being made an example of for his homosexuality (e.g. as Wilde), nor was he too low down the pecking order to get away with being gay.
He was found poisoned by an apple full of cyanide. The UK government had him killed in case he gave away any secrets to soviet Russia. You don't have to be a genius to put two and two together.