Letters reveal Alan Turing’s battle with his sexuality

Previously unpublished correspondence shows how wartime codebreaker longed for permanent relationship

More than 60 years after codebreaker Alan Turing’s death in an apparent suicide, his battle with his sexuality and longing for a permanent relationship have emerged in three previously unpublished letters.

The correspondence dates from the 1950s when, after being found guilty of gross indecency with a 19-year-old man, he had been sentenced to chemical castration.

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