UK Prime Minister Theresa May is planing a law that will pardon 49,000 gay men who were convicted of "gross indecency" after World War II, ie only for being homosexual.
The proposed law is titled the “Alan Turing law,” the brilliant mathematician who was posthumously pardoned in 2013 for a conviction of "gross indecency" in 1952, for which he took his life two years later.
"This government is committed to introducing posthumous pardons for people with certain historical sexual offence convictions who would be innocent of any crime now", a government spokesperson declared.
Homosexuality was decriminalized in England in 1967, but many individuals still have guilty convictions for now-legal actions.
Late but absolutely essential.
Last week, the family of Alan Turing delivered the
change.org petition to Downing Street, signed by
more than half a million people asking the pardon
of gay men convicted of "gross indecency" after WWII
change.org petition to Downing Street, signed by
more than half a million people asking the pardon
of gay men convicted of "gross indecency" after WWII
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