Film
Tongues Untied: 30th Anniversary Screening
- 7:30PM
Made to “shatter this nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference,” this bold and beautiful essay film combines poetry, performance, music, and montage into an at once personal and universal statement on the experiences of black gay men and the persecution they face. Met with a firestorm of controversy that reached all the way to Congress, Tongues Untied remains a radical act of representation.
Special thanks to Frameline Distribution
Post-screening Discussion
Longtime Riggs collaborator Vivian Kleiman and filmmakers Yance Ford and Thomas Allen Harris, moderated by historian Tavia Nyong’o
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