The Halls

Luminaries

The people who carried the history.

A gallery of documented LGBTQ+ figures from across our collection, from a poet of the seventh century BCE to an activist of our own decade. This is a beginning, not a census: it grows as our sourced records do. Where we have written a fuller profile, the card opens it. Those shown here have passed; living figures join only with their own public self-identification.

Photographic portrait of Alan Turing in 1951

Featured profile · Born 23 June 1912

Alan Turing

He helped end a world war and imagined the modern computer. His country prosecuted him for being gay, then pardoned him decades too late. On his birthday, his full story.

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