there are a lot of people who got their reputations and lives ruined because of their sexual orientation which was abhorent in not just the eyes of the people but the eyes of law... unfortuntately there are those in this world still who will see this as a sin, and will not appreciate him being pardon, who will not see the genious but the orientation.
Mostly however people won't care and won't know who he is.... i mean people know Einstien, far fewer people know Robert Oppenheimer, how many people Know David Bohm...
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how many people know James Baldwin (not the modern Actor), Jane Adams, Karen Boye, Roger Quitler, Richard Halliburton, Anton Walbrook... just to name a few moderately famous dead Gay/bi/lesbian people.... i didn't until i looked them up.