Silence is an obstctn to be rapped through Marlon Riggs’s tour--force say film Tongu Untied (1989). Inially nceived as a short documentary on gay Black poets, the project spltered when Riggs tted posive for HIV durg productn. It expand to bee a stunng mix of documentary, mic vio, scripted feature, performance, poetry, and art film.
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- TONGU UNTIED - THE BLACK GAY MALE EXPERIENCE
- MARLON RIGGS SHAK THE ESTABLISHMENT: HOW A PERSONAL FILM ON BLACK GAY SEXUALY STIRRED UP NATNAL DEBATE
TONGU UNTIED - THE BLACK GAY MALE EXPERIENCE
Tongu Untied Marlon Riggs’ livers a visnary documentary that sgs the style, culture, and opprsns unique to gay Black men. Prented wh ep... * tongues untied black gay *
Marlon Riggs’ livers a visnary documentary that sgs the style, culture, and opprsns unique to gay Black men. The semal documentary on Black gay life, Emmy Award-wng director Marlon T. Riggs’ 1989 Tongu Untied poetry, personal ttimony, rap, and performance (featurg poet Essex Hemphill and others), to scribe the homophobia and racism that nont Black gay men.
The stori are fierce exampl of homophobia and racism: the man refed entry to a gay bar bee of his lor; the llege stunt left bleedg on the siwalk after a gay-bashg; the lonels and isolatn of the drag queen. Yet they also affirm the Black gay male experience: prott march, smoky bars, “snap diva, ” humoro “milogy, ” and Vogue dancers.
MARLON RIGGS SHAK THE ESTABLISHMENT: HOW A PERSONAL FILM ON BLACK GAY SEXUALY STIRRED UP NATNAL DEBATE
Marlon Riggs, wh assistance om other gay Black men, pecially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrat Black men lovg Black men as a revolutnary act. The film tercuts footage of Hemphill recg his poetry, Riggs tellg the story of his growg up, scen of men social terurse and dance, and var ic riffs, cludg a vis to the "Instute of Snap!thology," where men take lsons how to snap their fgers: the slg snap, the pot snap, the diva snap. * tongues untied black gay *
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Ma, director Marlon Riggs’s own words, to “shatter the natn’s btalizg silence on matters of sexual and racial difference,” this radil blend of documentary and performance fi the stigmas surroundg Black gay sexualy the belief that, as long as shame prevails, liberatn nnot be possible. Through mic and dance, words and poetry by such pathbreakg wrers as Essex Hemphill and Joseph Beam—and by turns ndid, humoro, and heartbreakg terviews wh queer Ain Amerin men—Tongu Untied giv voice to what means to live as an outsir both a Black muny rife wh homophobia and a largely whe gay subculture poisoned by racism. A lightng rod the culture wars of the 1980s that ced a right-wg furor over public fundg for the arts, the film has lost none of s life-affirmg ronance. * tongues untied black gay *
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