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UK government issues pardons to gay men in historic cases

news, reformBy Karen Wickham 04/02/2017

Thousands of gay and bisexual men found guilty of decades-old sexual offences in England and Wales have been pardoned, in some cases posthumously. A new law was enacted by the UK government on Tuesday, allowing men previously convicted of homosexual activity to be pardoned. One of the most famous and high profile of these cases…

States considering posthumous pardons for gay people

Inform, newsBy Karen Wickham 27/10/2016

It was recently announced in the UK that the government would be issuing pardons, some posthumously, to gay people who had been previously convicted of being gay. Alan Turing (pictured), was an English computer scientist and mathematician, who was prosecuted in 1952 for engaging in homosexual acts, which was a crime at that time. He…