Lords bill may pardon Alan Turing

Gay Star News today reported that, frustrated by the lack of progress in giving Turing a posthumous pardon, Lord Sharkey, a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, has drafted his own bill to get his record wiped clean. However, it may take a while to get it debated.

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/lords-bill-may-pardon-gay-computer-hero-alan-turing250712

Previous LGBT HIstory Project blog posts about Alan Turing:

23 June 2012: http://lgbthistoryproject.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/turings-centenary.html

6 February 2012: http://lgbthistoryproject.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/government-rejects-pardon-request-for.html - reported a previous refusal by the Government to grant a pardon

23 January 2012: http://lgbthistoryproject.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/to-all-philatelists.html

2 January 2012: http://lgbthistoryproject.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/alan-turing-to-be-recognised-by-royal.html

15 November 2011: http://lgbthistoryproject.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/alan-turing-drama-documentary-on.html