Turning

"Watching and listening to Turning nearly a decade later, tableaux feels too specific and stationary, as though the work were only a to-scale model of the difficulty and progress of LGBTQ rights that both Antony and Atlas had witnessed in long lives as New Yorkers. Still, despite the film's issues, and despite the relative slow motion of Antony's current output, this concept feels as revelatory and salient now as it did then. Even if Atlas' effects feel dated less than a decade later, this is no period piece. At a time when one court says yes or at least "no comment" to gay marriage only for another to say no, and when women can't criticize a multi-billion dollar industry without receiving death threats, the idea beneath Turning remains one of vital empowerment. And whether he's singing about polar bears or sexual orientation, that's long served as Antony's most implicit message. Now, it spins forever".

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