Tongues Untied is a 1989 experimental documentary film directed by Marlon Riggs, and featuring Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Brian Freeman, among others. The film seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference." To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was selected to be shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016 Um ensaio aberto e construtivo sobre raça, gênero e identidade sexua

"To this day, 'Tongues Untied' continues to wield a transcendent power over audiences with a message of self-love, perseverance, righteous anger and pain, and snap divadom!" Billy Porter, star of the FX Networks series "Pose FX," says in a tribute to the groundbreaking Marlon T. Riggs documentary at this year's Peabody Awards Ceremony. The POV film, which explores the experience being of black and gay in America, was released 30 years ago. #Peabody previously honored the filmmaker's "Color Adjus

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"Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act." Marlon T. Riggs' TONGUES UNTIED explores North American Black gay culture, as well as Riggs' own experiences as a gay man and coping with the deaths of many of his friends to AIDS. A staple in the queer film canon, TONGUES UNTIED is available to rent this Friday on digital TIFF Bell Lightbox, as part of this year's QUEER BECOMING programme celebrating #PrideMonth. | TIFF