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Subject: Re: responsibility, sensitivity, (a
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 23:42:00 EST
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/* Written 12:47 pm  Jan  9, 1986 by tim@unisoft.UUCP in uicsl:net.motss */
/* ---------- "Re: responsibility, sensitivity, (a" ---------- */

> I'd always heard that Turing committed suicide because he was
> a homosexual, and couldn't bear living that way (living, as he
> did, at a time and place when it was considered a crime).

Not quite. Turing was persecuted during the McCarthy era for
his homosexuality (security risk, etc.). The government tried to
``turn him around'' with hormone injections and it was the
depression resulting from these treatments that led to his
suicide.

Recommended: "Alan Turing: the Enigma" by Andrew Hodges

- Gary