Marlon Riggs

11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — share their stories. Alternately irreverent, candid and soulful, this...

Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act....

A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses...

Incorporating archival material, revelatory verite footage, and clips from his own work, a documentary which chronicles the life and works of the...

Positive Men begins as a docudrama which illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men in the early 1980s. Memories of New York and San...