• VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Turing aside, the world simply treated gay people horribly altogether.

    Gay men were victims of the holocaust much like many other groups but Germany wouldn’t recognize this until 4 decades later in the 1980s. We know what the British did to Turing but the U.S. acted similarly due to the Lavender Scare which compared gay people to communists and enacted its own witch hunts for them.