I think calling Turing's achievements "minor" (versus, say, "overrated") is up for debate. But saying that "it became known that he was gay" underplays and dist

I think calling Turing's achievements "minor" (versus, say, "overrated") is up for debate. But saying that "it became known that he was gay" underplays and distorts even just that part of his life, as if he were just a mediocrity until he played the game of sexual politics and became a media darling. He was convicted and chemically castrated by his own government and had his career (and travel) curtailed at the age of 40. Even with the high recognition that his name gets today, we should still wonder how much more he would have achieved and been recognized had he not become ostracized at the prime of his career.