Benedict Cumberbatch, whom I love has recently called for 49,000 men who were charged with acts of Homosexuality to be pardoned. It comes on the head of his role as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game (click for the trailer), a masterful decoder from World War Two and who was charged with gross indecency in 1952. He committed suicide in 1954 and in 2013 the Queen; after Ex Prime-Minister Gordon Brown offered an "Unequivocal apology" for what happened to him, gave him a pardon. But there are still many others that were charged like this and deserve a pardon.
These men were treated awfully, for something they could not and should not be expected to change. Among the 49,000 men who were charged 15,000 of them are still alive. They walk around with a mark on their back and I believe they and the others who have sadly died now deserve a pardon.
There is a petition you can sign to make this happen:
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Peace.
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