OP here. This is part 4 of a 5 part series I stumbled across exploring Queer figures in the history of computer science. Parts 3, 4 and 5 are particularly interesting because they explore Queer history within CS beyond just Turing and Wittgenstein (discussed in parts 1 & 2).
Landin is a particularly interesting figure to study - he's one of the fathers of functional programming and the author of the much beloved paper "The next 700 programming languages" [1] where he coined the term "syntactic sugar"