Resurfaced Alan Turing short story sheds light on how he felt about being gay

A newly transcribed short story written by Alan Turing challenges the long-standing image of the genius as isolated and ashamed of his sexuality, revealing instead a man who was “playful, funny, cheeky” and “really liked sex”. The semi-autobiographical story, Pryce’s Buoy, was written shortly after Turing’s arrest in 1952 and offers a fictionalised account of…