NEWS.- 49.000 is the number that is known regarding the number of people who they entered prison because of their condition as homosexuals In England. And it is that until the year 1969 a man could go to prison for the mere fact of being homosexual, it was enough with the suspicion of a neighbor and that he denounced the police for the arrest, trial and subsequent imprisonment of someone by the mere fact of his sexual orientation.
For a few months the British legislation allows marriage between people of the same sex. The new generations will enjoy rights and a situation that thousands of their countrymen were denied and to date no one has asked for forgiveness for the ignominy that the treatment received by these 49.000 people represents.
One of those convicts was Alan Turing, the mathematician who helped decode the machine Enigma used by the Nazis in World War II. He is considered the father of modern computing and a national hero because his collaboration contributed to the defeat of Nazism and the end of the war, but this fact did not prevent him from being tried and imprisoned for his homosexuality. Alan Turing committed suicide in 1954, two years after being convicted of "gross indecency." Queen Elizabeth II granted forgiveness to Turing in the 2013 year, four years after the prime minister Gordon Brown apologize for the way he had been treated. But what about the rest of the condemned?
Precisely Benedict Cumberbatch, main character of the movie "The imitation game" that narrates the life of Turing, along with actor Stephen Fryhave sent an open letter to the government of Cameron where they demand a public apology, in most cases posthumously, from those 49.000 unjustly imprisoned people. The letter can read “It depends on today's young leaders, including the dukes of Cambridge, recognize that stain in our history and not allow it to remain. The apology and apology to Alan Turing is welcome, but he ignores the 49.000 men who were convicted under the same law, many of whom committed suicide. "
It is estimated that some 15.000 of them are still alive. It is time to restore their honor and dignity.
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