Essex Hemphill

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

A look at what it’s like to be gay and black in America.

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

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