The group, who are working in partnership with Manchester Digital Laboratory (or MadLab), want to celebrate the achievements of Turing from both a LGBT and geek perspective, encouraging people from any background or sexuality to get involved.
During the Second World War, Turing worked at Bletchley Park code breaking centre where he invented the machine which solved the problem of the German Enigma naval code. In 1952, Turing was convicted for having a sexual relationship with a man and was forced to take oestrogen therapy or go to prison as punishment. On 8 June 1954, Turing committed suicide, aged 41.
Source: sosogay.co.uk
