Honoring their legacy and telling their story
I am certain that Alan Turing would be insistent on the importance of trans youth and adults being fully supported in every way. This is not merely because Alan himself experienced body dysphoria through forced hormonal treatment which pained him deeply but because he held a strong belief in the necessaries of human authenticity--the freedom …
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Both Alan Turing and Harvey Milk were music lovers. Alan enjoyed singing out-of-season hymns, loved British Pantomines, which are full of silly songs, and even took up the violin. Even as he had the police over at his residence, he entertained them with an Irish Classic, "Cockles and Mussels." There is a statue in Dublin …
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Today, November 27, 2016 is the 38th anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Bernard Milk on November 27, 1978. If he were alive today he would be 86 years old. To think of all that could have happened had he and Alan Turing lived out a full lifespan, providing hope and technology to make our world a …
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Both Harvey Milk and Alan Turing have deep roots with the Navy.