@RyanNewYork
He sits on the Broad of Directors of The Ali Forney Center, where he is the founding producer of their annual Broadway Beauty Pageant fundraiser. He's also on the Board of Directors of The Deconstructive Theatre Project and the Board of Advisers of the startup TV Dinner.
He's also a director/producer, who lives in Brooklyn, NY and created the musical White Noise. Ryan writes about politics for The Huffington Post & The Hill. He has been a guest editor for Queerty and is the host of the podcast Gay History: Uncut.
Here Ryan blogs about politics, film, TV, history, religion, science, books, theater, digital media, LGBT issues, Bushwick & Williamsburg, New York City, and anything else he's interested in at the moment. Oh, and he'll probably talk a lot about himself.
This is a personal blog. Any opinions expressed here and on my Twitter represent my own and not those of my employer or clients.
You’ve got to listen to this terrific Radiolab podcast on Alan Turing, one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century, who was prosecuted for being gay and eventually took his own life in 1954. He’d turn 100 in June.
Turing is the father of artificial intelligence and the modern computer. He also was responsible for cracking the Nazi Engima code, helping to end World War II.
Turing’s story reaffirms how far we’ve come on gay rights since the movement began. Just over fifty years ago, a war hero’s life was destroyed just for being gay in England. Now gays serve openly in militaries around the world and countries that criminalize homosexuality are theocratic outliers. That’s progress.
Andrew Hodges’s Alan Turing: The Enigma is on my bookshelf to read this summer.
Listen below or click here to listen at Radiolab.
More information on the slate statue of Alan Turing pictured above.
