Sometimes I think Alan Turing’s sexual orientation shouldn’t be as much of a mention as it often is. He shouldn’t be known as a homosexual in the first place but instead as the extraordinary code-breaking, brilliant individual he was, thinking ahead of the time he lived in. Then again, Turing’s sexuality shaped his life and […]
Written by freewomenxgrape on 4 September 2014. No comments »
Category: Education, History, Social & Political
Tags: Alan Turing, anti-gay, homophobia, homosexuality, The Imitation Game
How do you eat a banana? Did you make eye contact with the man who queued at the shops earlier? Did you catch yourself looking at that girl’s nicely shaped arse on the bus this morning? There’s no shame to admit it, it happens to all of us. We decide within moments whether another human […]
Written by freewomenxgrape on 7 July 2014. No comments »
Category: Education, Film & TV, History, Social & Political
Tags: Alan Turing, gay, homosexuality, The Imitation Game
“Alan Turing is not outwardly very sympathetic. He’s brilliant, but the way that Benedict Cumberbatch played him showed us these guys found the right level of vulnerability, genius and the arrogance of the character, too.” – Harvey Weinstein. Although Cumberbatch is known for playing intelligent characters and cheekily says himself that he’s a crowd pleaser, […]
Written by freewomenxgrape on 21 June 2014. No comments »
Category: Film & TV, History, Social & Political
Tags: Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, The Enigma machine, The Imitation Game, Weinstein