Its call to action: a plea to the British government to grant pardons to the estimated 49,000 men who were convicted under the UK’s anti-gay laws, just as Alan Turingthe computer scientist and World War II codebreakerwas in the 1950s.
Truth be told, most apologies given would be posthumous like the one Turing received from Gordon Brown and Queen Elizabeth II a few years back. But to ignore the injustice they all suffered just because they’re not there to hear us is to ignore history, do further injustice to their families, and that’s something we quite simply cannot do.
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“The Imitation Game” and efforts inspired by it, like Matt’s petition, guarantee that Turing and men like him won’t ever be forgotten.
