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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.
The laws were unconstitutional because they applied only to acts between men, the court ruled.
A genius who helped the Allies defeat the Nazis, Turing was castrated by British officials for being gay. Now he's finally being celebrated.
"It is only right that where offenses have been abolished, convictions for consensual activity between same-sex partners should be disregarded too."
Oscar Wilde's ode to a grande dame is unearthed after 50 years.
It comes too late for Oscar Wilde, but not for thousands convicted under now-repealed laws.
It's the latest pro-LGBT move by the popular prime minister.
