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The Boys in the Band: What Was Alan's Classified (Is He Gay)?
The biggest mystery in Netflix's The Boys in the Band is what Alan was going to say to Michael (Jim Parsons) after his teary phone dial. The question remains unanswered in the emotionally loaded adaptation of Mart Crowley's pioneering stage play, but there are major hints that Alan's secret comparable to his sexuality.
Netflix's The Boys in the Band follows a group of gay friends brought together by the birthday of Harold (Zachary Quinto) at the apartment of Michael (Jim Parsons) in 1968 New York, which is interrupted by the arrival of Michael's straight college friend Alan (Brian Hutchison) who desperately ask to see him. Terrified by the threat of his sexuality being outed, Michael asks his friends - ranging from the extravagant Emory to "straight-acting" Hank - to temporarily tone down their behavior while he finds out why Alan was so urgent.
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Unfortunately, Alan's presence derails the dynamic of the party as he discovers the sexuality of the other guests and becomes violent against Emory. Michael spirals into an alcoholic fog and becomes increasing
‘A very camp environment’: why Alan Turing fatefully told police he was gay
For decades, it has perplexed historians. Why, in the course of reporting a burglary to the police in 1952, did the maths genius Alan Turing volunteer that he was in an illegal lesbian relationship? The admission enabled the police to prosecute the Bletchley Park codebreaker for “gross indecency”, termination Turing’s groundbreaking work for GCHQ on early computers and artificial intelligence and compelling him to undergo a chemical castration that rendered him impotent. Two years later, he killed himself.
Now, research by a University of Cambridge academic has shed light on the reasons why Turing, a former undergraduate and lecturer at King’s College, Cambridge, did not conceal his homosexuality from the police. “There was a whole community in King’s quite different from stories one knows about from gay history, usually involving casual pickups and a lot of despair, hiding and misery,” said Simon Goldhill, professor of classics at the college.
His explore has uncovered a “rather happy” community in the formerly all-male college at “the centre of the British establishment” while homosexuality was still ille
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Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a mathematician, computer scientist and codebreaker whose work at the British Intelligence Service was instrumental in breaking the German Enigma machine and curtailing WWII. Despite the contributions to his country and the mathematics community, Turing was ultimately criminalised for his sexuality, with homosexuality remaining illegal until 1967, 13 years after his death.
Turing’s sexuality remained a secret for most of his animation. He met his ‘first love’, Christopher Morcom, at school, but he sadly died at the age of 17. During wartime, Turing was engaged to Joan Clarke, a female friend and codebreaker. He shared his true sexuality with Joan before the engagement was reconsidered and called off.
After the war, Turing had an active dating life. During this time, his dwelling was robbed by the peer of a gentleman he’d shared a association with. While reporting the crime to the police, Turing accidentally incriminated himself in what was considered ‘gross indecency’ at the time. Arrested, found responsible, and t
Alan Cumming spoke about his sexuality in a modern interview.
The actor and Traitors host publicly came out as bisexual in 1998. He is married to artist Grant Shaffer, tying the knot with him in 2007. Previously, he dated actor Saffron Burrows and was married to Hilary Lyon for eight years.
As it says on his website, "I assume my sexuality and most people's sexuality is gray. I am married to a man. I possess a healthy sexual liking and a healthy imagination. I also have an attraction to women. I've never lost it, actually. I've always been attracted to both sexes, and whether I act on it or not is not anyone's business."
So, when talking to Alan about his collaboration with Virgin Atlantic to celebrate their new LAX Clubhouse, we asked if he ever gets frustrated to spot his sexuality be mislabeled. "I let that one go," he replied. "I try to, when I have a chance to, define myself as bisexual."
"But if people say queer — I like gender non-conforming, actually, because it's more all-encompassing, and it doesn't necessarily have to undertake with what you undertake with the contents of your underpants. It's more of a sort of sensibility as well. I quite like that," the 60-year-old continued.
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