article_snippet: Miliband has vowed to adopt a ‘Turing’s law’ to allow the pardoning of tens of thousands of men convicted of gay sex when it was illegal.
article_snippet: Since then Miliband relatives have campaigned for the 49,000 men convicted under gross indecency laws to be similarly pardoned.
article_snippet: Miliband has vowed to introduce a new 'Turing's Law' pardoning men convicted of historic gay sex 'offences' like the World War Two hero Alan Turing .
article_snippet: Miliband has said Miliband will extend this to the families and friends of gay men who received convictions in the families and friends of gay men who received convictions in their lifetime but died before they could apply to have the records changed lifetime but died before the families and friends of gay men who received convictions in their lifetime but died before they could apply to have the records changed could apply to have their records changed.
article_snippet: Miliband told Gay Times that, if elected Prime Minister in May, Miliband would make the matter a priority.
article_snippet: But in 1952 he was convicted for homosexual activity, which was illegal at the time, after having an affair with a 19-year-old man in Manchester.
highlights_snippet: Some 49,000 men were convicted of 'gross indecency' under anti-gay laws .
  
highlights_snippet: Miliband vowed to introduce a 'Turing's Law' pardoning gay prosecutions .