When did gays ever have it hard in America?

[LockedHDD__Pot]

as for UK there's Alan Turing who helped shorten WW2, saddens me:

Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre that produced Ultra intelligence. For a time he led Hut 8, the section that was responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. Here, he devised a number of techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bomba method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Turing played a crucial role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Axis powers in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic.

Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts. He accepted hormone treatment with DES, a procedure commonly referred to as chemical castration, as an alternative to prison. Turing died on 7 June 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as a suicide, but it has been noted that the known evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning

 

[johnnynoname]

people answering in this thread because they're gay

 

[Monk]

He was tied to a truck and dragged through backroads. On a true crime doc i watched they said they suspect it was something to do w him being involved w the gangs who were slingin meth down there.

You're thinking of James Byrd Jr. but the two are linked because both of their names are on the Shepard/Byrd Hate Crime Preventions Act.

Murder of James Byrd Jr. - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Matthew Shepard - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Maybe even kiss you]

as for UK there's Alan Turing who helped shorten WW2, saddens me:

Alan Turing is also in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Buy it and read it.

 

[PatsDeadLizard]

You're thinking of James Byrd Jr. but the two are linked because both of their names are on the Shepard/Byrd Hate Crime Preventions Act.

Murder of James Byrd Jr. - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Matthew Shepard - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Very possible. It seems I’ve mixed the two stories in my head. This ABC article refers to Matthew being involved w meth/drugs

 

[JoeBrotheChildSpitGuzzler]

He was tied to a truck and dragged through backroads. On a true crime doc i watched they said they suspect it was something to do w him being involved w the gangs who were slingin meth down there.

He was definitely involved in a drug deal. Also that faggot had AIDs so the deputies responding to the scene needed to be tested