Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!tj From: tj@sun.uucp (Cal Thixton) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Alan Turing biography Message-ID: <1203@sun.uucp> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 12:40:53 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.1203 Posted: Mon Jun 4 12:40:53 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 05:24:37 EDT References: <7862@watmath.UUCP> <7864@watmath.UUCP> <275@masscomp.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 16 > "why wasn't I told that Alan Turing was gay in class?" > > Same reason I wasn't told that John von Neumann was straight in > class. But if John von Neumann were black, this would be mentioned. At least now anyway, maybe not 10 years ago. In many of our classrooms today, if John Doe is mentioned, he is assumed to be a white, heterosexual anglo-saxon, handicap-less, christian male. Not to mention that John Doe was a woman, not a man, is just as important as mentioning that Alan Turing was gay. Cal Thixton decwrl!sun!tj