Had the British Establishment injected the female hormone oestrogen into London-born mathematician Alan Turing during World War II, the brilliant man wouldn't have broke the German military's secret codes, the British Navy wouldn't have won the Battle of the Atlantic and Hitler might have kept the upper hand. Instead, Turing was chemically castrated for being a homosexual in March 1952, and the man who laid the foundation of modern computers, and was named one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century by Time magazine, killed himself to escape the horror.

In conjunction with the HIDE/SEEK exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum, UWT's Queer Student Union and Diversity Resource Center present a film screening of Decoding Alan Turing, the story of this great mathematician who was found dead at age 41 with a poisoned apple next to his bed.

[University of Washington Tacoma, Diversity Resource Center, WCG104, Monday, April 9, 12:30-1:30 p.m., free, 1900 Commerce St., Tacoma, 253.692.4000]