Benedict Cumberbatch is in a good place. He is in demand, working almost non-stop and repeatedly names his job “an embarrassment of riches”. Which it is when you’re friends with Harvey Weinstein and put in front line of next year’s Academy Awards with Alan Turing drama “The Imitation Game” (UK cinecast Oct. 8th, UK release […]

Written by freewomenxgrape on 7 October 2014. No comments »
Category: Education, Film & TV, Social & Political
Tags: Alan Turing, discrimination, Hollywood, homophobia, LFF, LGBT study, sexuality, The Imitation Game, TIFF 2014

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