*Bells Tolling*
Hi, I'm Shelly. Welcome back to my channel. and Day 4, of the 12 Gays of Christmas.
In which we celebrate lovely, important, LGBTQIA, people.
I am celebrating all things gay, LGBTQIA and the plus!
Telling you about 12 influential, beautiful, wonderful, history-making people.
Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys & Girls, Non-binary, & for those of you, who have yet decide....
1 of the most famous I think, in this series, is going to be Alan Turing....
Who the heck was Alan Turing? Why do we love him??
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician and World War 2 code breaker.
Founder of computer science, philosopher, and a theoretical biologist.
I don't even know what that is??? But apparently, he was one.
He was brilliant, he invented the computer, can we just like, bow to him already.
I've written stuff down about him, and I'm gonna have quite a hard time pronouncing it.
So I would suggest reading the subtitles (hello)
I didn't think..... how am I gonna say these words out loud?
Theoretical....programmable bluh bluh bluh. This is gonna be fun.
I'm literally going to say this, as I read it. Because there is no way,
I am gonna be able to keep this in my head, and pronounce it at the sametime. So apologies.
His pre-war work, laid down the theoretical plan, for a programmable computer ....
try saying that 10 times fast.
After the war, he was closely involved with the design of the world's earliest computer machines.
He designed the automatic computer engine, and founded the discipline of artificial intelligence.
Do we get that he's a genius yet?
For many, many years. His true brilliance was locked up,
and kept away, inside World War 2 documents. That were sealed.
But as of, I don't know when? A while ago now.
They were unlocked and we found out that he was part of the team. in fact he ran the team.
That cracked Enigma.
Enigma being the machine, that the Germans were using to pass messages to each other.
From different countries, different places. All the classified documents,
to say where they were going to attack. and where all their troops were, and where they were kind of staying safe.
Was all said through Enigma. Alan Turing and his team, cracked that.
By building a computer, a massive machine.
They worked out a way of cracking the Enigma Code, and so winning us the war.
Sadly he was prosecuted in 1952, for homosexual acts.
Then called 'Gross Indecency' .....don't get me started.
Which back then was illegal.
He was sentenced to a chemical castration. Which consisted of the drug cryptonine.....I think that's how it's pronounced.
Of which the side effects were numerous. Such as, low sex drive.
Which was what they were trying to accomplish. By giving the drug to homosexuals.
Breast development, and cardiovascular complications.
Due to the stress and the side effects of this drug, Turing died in 1954.
Just 16 days before his 42nd birthday.
He was later, of course, brought to the attention of the wider world, through the film.
The Imitation Games, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
He was granted a posthumous, which means after death. A posthumous pardon in 2013,
by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
He saved thousands upon millions lives, and yet was prosecuted for the smallest acts of love.
Having prejudice against homosexuality, not only hurts the person that you are prosecuting.
But it also hurts the greater world. Society in a much bigger way.
Because you are stifling genius, you are stifling creative, you are stifling humans.
That's just not on!
Chemical castration is just, it's diabolical!
It absolutely is. It plays with your mind, it plays with your body.
Yeah, but Alan Turing, Alan Turing was a brilliant guy.
If you haven't seen The Imitation Games I suggest you go and watch it, because it is a wonderful film.
I would imagine you have by now, as we all know it's bloody fabulous
Anyway, that was day...what?? where am I??? Who am I??
4 maybe, I don't know. It's one of those days. I have no idea what's going on.
I hope you guys are good, I will see you tomorrow for day 5.... I think.
I need a nap.....Byeeee
He designed the automatic computer fit ...he designed the....... he designed the automatic
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