Inside the Opera About Alan Turing, Codebreaker and LGBT Hero
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If the movie The Imitation Game desexualized codebreaking hero Alan Turing, The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing seeks to make his sexuality central to who he was.
Alan Turing, the gay mathematical genius who broke the Nazi Enigma Code in World War II and who was chemically castrated after being convicted of “gross indecency” in 1952, is the subject of a new opera which will have its first NYC concert performance this Thursday, Jan.
