A look at what it's like to be gay and black in America.
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Marlon Riggs had no interest in asking permission to be both Black and gay, and Affirmations feels like a direct extension of that refusal. The documentary short film combines testimony, humour, poetry and protest into a compact statement about love, racism and homophobia. It feels like a companion to Tongues Untied, but its brevity gives the declarations an almost conversational immediacy.
Marlon Riggs had no interest in asking permission to be both Black and gay, and Affirmations feels like a direct extension of that refusal. The documentary short film combines testimony, humour, poetry and protest into a compact statement about love, racism and homophobia. It feels like a companion to Tongues Untied, but its brevity gives the declarations an almost conversational immediacy.
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