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09 Oct 2007, 10:45 am

Can ayone think of anyone who is famous with AS that is openly/closeted gay ?



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09 Oct 2007, 11:31 am

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Alan Turing perhaps

Daniel Tammett



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10 Oct 2007, 11:52 am

I came up with these people:

Keanu Reeves
Andy Warhol
Truman Capote



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12 Oct 2007, 11:03 am

I'm glad to see Alan Turing's name in there. That man was a genius and totally forgotten by most people. And absolutely no one ever talks about the fact that he was gay. Well, the gay community does, but no one in the mainstream media ever reports on it.



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15 Oct 2007, 3:01 am

sonny1471 wrote:
I'm glad to see Alan Turing's name in there. That man was a genius and totally forgotten by most people. And absolutely no one ever talks about the fact that he was gay. Well, the gay community does, but no one in the mainstream media ever reports on it.

That's funny, I just read "The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer" by David Leavitt and was irritated by its over-emphasis on Turing's homosexuality (trying to trace his interest in computers to it, for instance) and the fact that it downplayed his obvious autistic characteristics!