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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 civil rights activist was a close confidante to Martin Luther King, Jr. before he was forced to register as a sex offender for being gay.
It's the latest pro-LGBT move by the popular prime minister.
Gov. Gavin Newsom set out to pardon people convicted under anti-LGBTQ+ laws, but so far he's issued only two pardons under the program, one to a living man and the other posthumously.
The civil rights icon was sullied by a homophobic "morals charge" at the height of his career.
"It is only right that where offenses have been abolished, convictions for consensual activity between same-sex partners should be disregarded too."
Those convicted under now-defunct antisodomy laws can apply for pardons and have their criminal records cleared.
President Obama met with the prime minister of Canada, and expressed pride that both countries have embraced marriage equality.
The catharsis that comes from world leaders making amends for past abuses travels beyond borders.
Is the camera-friendly Canadian P.M. all talk and no action?
A genius who helped the Allies defeat the Nazis, Turing was castrated by British officials for being gay. Now he's finally being celebrated.
A hate group demonstrated and handed out flyers at Parade, about the lynching of a Jewish man in Georgia.
