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As Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 draws to its conclusion, KDE and @gnome.org want to pay tribute to LGBTQA+ people that have contributed and continue to contribute to making our lives better through their work in the field of digital technology. We start with one of the greatest computer scientists of all time...

Alan Mathison Turing - 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954, English, Gay Man A thread... 🧵" @gnome.org

Turing is considered to be the father of theoretical computer science. Best known for the Turing Machine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_... , the mathmatical model to simulate all possible computer algorithms, ...

Turing made many other contributions to the area of theoretial computer since during the 1930s untiil his death in 1954. While working at Bletchly Park at the height of World War II, Turing lead Hut 8, the section of the Britains codebreaking devision against the Nazis, ...

Turing and his teams work gave the Allied powers the edge to defeat the Nazis and their allies in multiple crucial battles - shortening WW2 by many years, saving millions of lives and preventing the takeover of the world by facist forces.

Despite his loyalty and heroic acts for his country, Turing was prosecuted by the British government for being homosexual, and given an ultimatum - go to prison for years, and thus barred from research, ...

or accept chemical castration in an attempt to "cure" him of his homosexuality. 2 agonizing years later, Turing commited suicide via cyanide posioning, leaving behind a lot of unfinished research.

Nearly 6 decades later, after much public outcry and campaigning, the [British Government issues an official apology then pardon for Turing www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol... , followed by the coining of the "Alan Turing law", a law to blanket-pardon all those convicting of homosexuality in the UK.