Rediscovered Writings Shed New Light on How Alan Turing Felt About Being Gay

Resurfaced Alan Turing short story sheds light on how he felt about being gay

A newly transcribed short story written by Alan Turing challenges the long-standing image of the genius as isolated and ashamed of his sexuality, revealing instead a man who was “playful, funny, cheeky” and “really liked sex”. The semi-autobiographical story, Pryce’s Buoy, was written shortly after Turing’s arrest in 1952 and offers a fictionalised account of […] The post Resurfaced Alan Turing short story sheds light on how he felt about being …

Rediscovered writings shed new light on how Alan Turing felt about being gay

Andrew M Potts A new transcription of an account that the late math genius and WWII Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing wrote about his […] The post Rediscovered writings shed new light on how Alan Turing felt about being gay appeared first on QNews.