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Uh, that is exactly what it says. Rosa Parks action, and the support by the community, said "no-one should be subject to segregation".
I don't hear Mr Hawking etc saying "Everyone who was unjustly treated because they where gay should be pardoned". I only hear "We should pardon Alan Turing" with no mention of anyone else. "

I think all of you have a problem with comprehension and logic.

"We should pardon Alan Turing" does NOT equal "we shouldn't pardon anyone else".

Just because you "hear" one positive statement and don't hear another does not imply the negative statement. Not mentioning others does not imply, in any way, mentioning the others in a negative way.

I can't remember the logical fallacy, but this one of yours is a very big one.

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Stephen Hawking and the others may have one particular motive. That doesn't mean other people can't also jump aboard this with their own motives.

Let's say Stephen Hawking et al, by saying "We should pardon Alan Turing" really does mean "we should not pardon anyone else", that does not stop others from supporting the motion in the hopes of opening the doors to a greater effort to pardon more people.

1) Stephen Hawking wants to pardon Alan Turing.
2) Stephen Hawking doesn't want to pardon others.
3) Therefore, we should not pardon Alan Turing.

You and the others are fundamentally engaging in an ad hominem fallacy, it this is what you really believe.

So this is another failure of logic.

But we are not talking about what other people may, or may not, be doing or hoping. We're talking about what Hawking et al are actually saying and what message it is sending to the public and the government.

He wasn't making an ad hominem argument, and I wish people on comment threads and forums were a little less inclined to throw 'logical fallacy' and other 6th Form level technicalities around at the drop of a hat. Demolishing opposing views one itty bitty sentence at a time does not make for reasoned debate.

You also miss the point that they needed something to give the Montgomery Bus Boycott political legitimacy, and the trial of Rosa Parks, someone with good social standing, was that occasion.

Alan Turing is the person for this occasion, no matter the intent of Stephen Hawking (refer to my explanation of your logical fallacy.

Because you don't listen?(not being LGB or T excuses you from actually knowing that) They have their names behind that proposal for quite some time now. But it's stalled.