| − | Turing's reputation has been inflated by those who wish to glorify his as a "gay martyr". In 1952, when working as a mathematics don at [[Oxford University]] he went to the police and complained that a young man who had spent the night at his house had stolen a sum of money from him. The police questioned the young man, who told them that Turing had picked him up in a pub and taken him home for homosexual purposes, then illegal. This meant that the police had no choice but to prosecute Turing, who was not given a custodial sentence, but ordered by the court to undergo therapy for his homosexuality. A year later, he was found dead, which has been considered suicide. | + | Turing's reputation has been inflated by those who wish to glorify his as a "gay genius" and "gay martyr". In 1952, when working as a mathematics don at [[Oxford University]] he went to the police and complained that a young man who had spent the night at his house had stolen a sum of money from him. The police questioned the young man, who told them that Turing had picked him up in a pub and taken him home for homosexual purposes, then illegal. This meant that the police had no choice but to prosecute Turing, who was not given a custodial sentence, but ordered by the court to undergo therapy for his homosexuality. A year later, he was found dead, which has been considered suicide. |