Well in the case of Turing, they did stop doing those same things to the living. In the USA, it took until 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

Well in the case of Turing, they did stop doing those same things to the living. In the USA, it took until 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas Gay people are now mostly treated very well, except for that dumb restriction against nationally recognized same sex marriage. Give it 15 years though and one of the last bastions of state-sanctioned inequality will vanish.