Gay castrated
The hidden homophobic shame of the NHS
February is LGBT History Month in the UK:
The posthumous royal pardon granted to war-time code breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing was a long overdue attempt to position right a grave injustice. Turing had been convicted of homosexuality in , under the similar nineteenth century ‘gross indecency’ law that sent Oscar Wilde to prison in
Given the option of jail or chemical castration, he chose the latter. The hormonal treatment &#; similar to the ‘cure’ devised by the Nazi doctor, SS Carl Vaernet &#; caused Turing horrendous physical and mental distress; including impotency, breast development and depression. He committed suicide two years later, at the age of
Turing was not alone. An estimated 50, men were convicted under the same law during the twentieth century, and a further 50, were convicted under other anti-gay laws &#; making a total of , convictions. Many were jailed.
Some were also subjected to chemical castration or to so-called ‘aversion therapy’ &#; the infliction of electric shocks or drug-induced nausea while they were sh
Alan Turing, the mathematician famous for breaking Nazi Germany's classified codes during World War II, who was later chemically castrated for being gay, will now be featured on Britain's £50 mention. The Bank of England made the announcement Monday after considering many pivotal scientists to adorn the new bills.
The bank's governor, Verb Carney, said Turing's work had an "enormous impact on how we exist today."
"As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as a war hero, Alan Turing's contributions were far ranging and path breaking," Carney said. "Turing is a enormous on whose shoulders so many now stand."
The note is expected to come in circulation by the end of Among the features, the new notes add a photo of Turing, his birthdate listed in binary code, and technical drawings for the British Bombe -- one of the machines Turin helped invent to shatter the Nazis' Enigma-coded messages.
The bank received , nominations for different scientists during a six-week nomination period. Among the other notable nominees was theoretical physic
Utopia and Castration: How to Read the History of Homosexuality
[1] For more than twenty years now, as I’m sure you know, scholars, theorists, and historians of sexuality contain been engaged in a heated debate over the relationship between homosexuality, history, and society. Commonly referred to as the essentialist/constructionist debate, the controversy has centered around whether modern conceptions of homosexual “identity” are, among other things, universal or historical, natural or cultural, innate or invented. Those in the first camp are the essentialists; those in the second, the social constructionists: whereas the former see such identities as the intrinsic properties of individuals, the latter notice in them all the hallmarks of historical and cultural relativity (see Stein, ).
[2] I take this rather weary debate to your attention yet again, not to hold sides in it, nor to present some new synthesis, but to grill it at a more fundamental level. I want to ask, in particular, what it is that motivates and sustains this debate. Most critics today, if asked this question,
Gay referee requested to be castrated
Aqra bil- Malti
A rugby international referee revealed that he visited a doctor and requested the removal of his testicles after realizing that he was gay.
He said that the pressure he encountered to control the rugby world cup closing in was nothing compared to when he came to accept the proof that he was a homosexual person.
Welsh referee Nigel Owens suffered from bulimia and tried to commit suicide as he considered being gay as something &#;totally strange&#;. Owens, the first gay referee who controlled a high level rugby match, revealed his sexuality in
Interviewed by a BBC radio station, he said: &#;Refereeing the World Cup final between Australia and New Zealand in front of 85, spectators and millions of other viewers, closely following every decision you make under excellent pressure, was nothing in comparison with the challenge that I accept myself&#;.
year old Owens added that he was prepared to perform everything to manifest as a &#;normal&#; person in the eyes of people.
He recounted that when he visited a doctor, he told him: &#;I don&#