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The documentary Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing examines Turing and other gay men convicted under the U.K.’s 1885 anti-homosexuality law. It opens for a one-week run in NYC on Dec. 6.
Agencies linked to the Saudi government have distributed extremist literature to mosques and Islamic centers in Britain, an independent think tank said Tuesday. The Policy Exchange, timing its report to Saudi king Abdullah's state visit, said the material expressed a deep-rooted antipathy toward Western society, calling for violence against enemies of Islam, including women and gays who demand equal rights. ''Saudi Arabia is the ideological source of much of this sectarianism -- and must be held to account for it,'' the study said. ''Islamic institutions in the U.K. must clean up their act.''
A special edition Monopoly board commemorates Alan Turing, the gay mathematician and codebreaker considered "the father of computer science."
Military Times has dubbed this "a workaround" of a law against naming bases for Confederates.
The film, which also features Gabrielle Union, was inspired by writer-director Elegance Bratton's life.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama battled to refocus his campaign on the five-year-old Iraq war and the slumping U.S. economy, ending a week that saw him clobbered over incendiary remarks by his longtime Chicago pastor. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his rival for the Democratic nomination, blasted away on the war and economy as well, while pressing demands to reinstate delegates in Michigan and Florida. Clinton won both contests, but the national Democratic Party said they would not be counted because the state votes were held too early and violated party rules.
