The Homosexual

We have just seen the story of Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game," and I am still seething with rage.  At the very end the story of Turing's life is tied up in a series of on-screen statements about what happened to all the principals.  In the course of the film we are treated to the investigation of Turing as a practicing homosexual and his accepting "chemical castration," as they called it in England, instead of a two year prison sentence, when he is found out as having been involved with a male.  However, we learn in the final statements that he committed suicide one year into this treatment, and also the information that 49,000 men were convicted of sodomy under the law of gross indecency from the mid-nineteenth century until the law was changed in the twentieth, and that Queen Elizabeth II a few years ago publicly pardoned Turing.  My rage was that she did not publicly and officially repudiate the beastly legal attacks on these other 48,999 homosexuals (what about Oscar Wilde, for starters?).  It's as if one person spared from Auschwitz makes it alright--  grotesque!  The English hatred of homosexuals fueled by those hideous strictures in the monotheistic Abrahamic religions is tragic, bad enough with the Christians but now they have the Muslims, too.  On another level, the film was especially amusing and ironic, since the man was obviously a total nutter, misfit, and weirdo, not to mention narcissist par excellence, but what was entirely mundane about him, seen from the perspective of the twenty first century, was taking some guy's cock into the mouth or up the bum, acts so routine and commonplace that the idea of his being hunted and destroyed for it was amusing in a wry, ironic tragic way, when all along he was in fact seriously hated by almost everyone who came into contact with him, despised, really by everyone because he was a totally hateful person, arrogant, self-involved, anti-social, out of contact, incapable of human relationships. I guess we could murmur Asberger's nowadays and let him off the hook.  Amusing, I thought, and altogether a beautiful story.  Great filming, too.