{"id":13473,"date":"2015-01-24T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/uk-government-urged-to-pardon-the-49000-men-and-women-who-were-persecuted-under-anti-gay-laws\/"},"modified":"2015-01-24T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T21:00:08","slug":"uk-government-urged-to-pardon-the-49000-men-and-women-who-were-persecuted-under-anti-gay-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/uk-government-urged-to-pardon-the-49000-men-and-women-who-were-persecuted-under-anti-gay-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government Urged to Pardon the 49,000 Men and Women Who Were Persecuted Under Anti-gay Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>UK Government Urged to Pardon the 49,000 Men and Women Who Were Persecuted Under Anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Laws<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01bb07e1cece970d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ad\" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01bb07e1cece970d-500wi\" title=\"Ad\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spurred to action in response to the public&#8217;s newfound awareness of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, actors and activists are now calling on the British government to pardon the tens of thousands of other British citizens who were persecuted under draconian anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> laws of the past.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2013\/12\/uk-codebreaker-alan-turing-receives-royal-pardon.html\" target=\"_blank\">pardoned <\/a>Turing, who committed suicide after being convicted of &#8220;gross indecency&#8221; for being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following a screening of&nbsp;<em>The Imitation Game<\/em> in London Wednesday, actor Stephen Fry said the pardon was only the start of what should be done to honor Turing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/race\/benedict-cumberbatch-stephen-fry-call-766279\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01b8d0c79343970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fry\" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01b8d0c79343970c-200wi\" title=\"Fry\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Should Alan Turing have been pardoned just because he was a genius,&#8221; Fry asked, &#8220;when somewhere between 50 to 70 thousand other <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> were imprisoned, chemically castrated, had their lives ruined or indeed committed suicide because of the laws under which Turing suffered? There is a general feeling that perhaps if he should be pardoned, then perhaps so should all of those <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, whose names were ruined in their lifetime, but who still have families.&#8221; He continued, &#8220;It was a nasty, malicious and horrific law and one that allowed so much blackmail and so much misery and so much distress. Turing stands as a figure symbolic to his own age in the way that&nbsp;Oscar Wilde&nbsp;was, who suffered under a more but similar one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Benedict] Cumberbatch, meanwhile, emailed&nbsp;<em>THR<\/em>&nbsp;from the set of the next&nbsp;<em>Sherlock<\/em>&nbsp;series to offer his full and enthusiastic agreement with Fry&#8217;s idea. &#8220;Alan Turing was not only prosecuted, but quite arguably persuaded to end his own life early, by a society who called him a criminal for simply seeking out the love he deserved, as all human beings do. 60 years later, that same government claimed to &lsquo;forgive&rsquo; him by pardoning him. I find this deplorable, because Turing&rsquo;s actions did not warrant forgiveness &mdash; theirs did &mdash; and the 49,000 other prosecuted <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> deserve the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HRC president Chad Griffin ran an ad in Friday&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>on the campaign to pardon the other 49,000 persecuted <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>. You can check out the full ad, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2015\/01\/cumberbatchhrc.html%20\" target=\"_blank\">AFTER THE JUMP<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/Change.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">Change.org<\/a> petition underway for the campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/british-government-pardon-all-49-000-men-who-like-alan-turing-were-persecuted-and-criminalized-under-british-law-for-gross-indecency-section-11-of-the-criminal-law-amendment-act-1885-which-was-overturned-in-1967-which-prosecuted-them-for-being-gay\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01bb07e1cf9a970d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ad1\" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01bb07e1cf9a970d-500wi\" title=\"Ad1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=Yl2vktdKk_8:l2CH_WKTrOw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=Yl2vktdKk_8:l2CH_WKTrOw:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=Yl2vktdKk_8:l2CH_WKTrOw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=Yl2vktdKk_8:l2CH_WKTrOw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=Yl2vktdKk_8:l2CH_WKTrOw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=Yl2vktdKk_8:l2CH_WKTrOw:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=Yl2vktdKk_8:l2CH_WKTrOw:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/Yl2vktdKk_8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nKyler Geoffroy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2015\/01\/cumberbatchhrc.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.towleroad.com\/2015\/01\/cumberbatchhrc.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Government Urged to Pardon the 49,000 Men and Women Who Were Persecuted Under Anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Laws Spurred to action in response to the public&#8217;s newfound awareness of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, actors and activists are now calling on the British government to pardon the tens of thousands of other British citizens who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/uk-government-urged-to-pardon-the-49000-men-and-women-who-were-persecuted-under-anti-gay-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK Government Urged to Pardon the 49,000 Men and Women Who Were Persecuted Under Anti-gay Laws<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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