There has been new headway with the petition to pardon the 49,000 gay men inspired by "The Imitation Game."
From a new release:
The British government has responded in an amazing way backing the pardon and committing to push the pardons through Parliament. Two British political leaders are pushing the government to pardon the estimated 49,000 gay men who were prosecuted by the same unjust law that criminalized Alan Turing for being gay. Members of Turing’s family recently delivered the petition to 10 Downing Street. The petition has over 590,000 signatures from supporters.
The Labour party's leader Ed Miliband and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg both spoke out this week saying they would work to overturn and pardon those convicted gay men.
QUOTE FROM MP ED MILIBAND, LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY:
“What was right for Alan Turing’s family should be right for other families as well. The next Labour government will extend the right individuals already have to overturn convictions that society now see as grossly unfair to the relatives of those convicted who have passed away.”
QUOTE FROM MP NICK CLEGG, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND LEADER OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS PARTY:
“Alan Turing and the thousands of other men should never have been prosecuted. It is utterly wrong that so many people were convicted simply for being who they are. The Liberal Democrats and I will work to make sure those with convictions for consensual homosexual activity between adults are pardoned. It should never have been a crime in the first place.”
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