The UK has passed a law that will allow homosexuals and bisexuals to have a posthumous pardon, deleting old condemnations issued by the court to those who had same-sex relationships: the Turing Act, which changes the story - and the lives - of the condemned for homosexual offenses, when
homosexuality was a crime. In England and Wales, it was so until 1967.
WHY LAW TURING. Alan Turing (1912-1954), English, extraordinary mathematician, considered one of the fathers of computer science and inspirational Turing Test - which allows to investigate the possibility of artificial intelligence self-awareness, in 1952 he was tried for homosexuality and sentenced to castration chemical (as an alternative to imprisonment).
Beyond the Law and public morals, all this was done despite Turing had played a decisive role in the outcome of the Second World War, decrypting what the Germans and their allies cifravano the Enigma machine. Turing died in 1954, probably suicidal.
In 2009, the British Government has apologized for the first time in an official capacity for the treatment of Turing, and in 2013 Queen Elizabeth granted him posthumous pardon. Turing the law will allow many families to rehabilitate their loved ones, but also - for those who are still alive - to obtain the pardon and regain a clean record.
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