Marlon Riggs

Marlon Riggs

1957 – 1994

Award-winning film maker whose examinations of Black gay life boldly confronted racism and sexual repression, most notably with 1989's Tongues Untied

⚲ Market Street (planned location)

Marlon Riggs (1957 – 1994) was an award-winning film maker whose examinations of Black gay life boldly confronted racism and sexual repression, most notably with 1989’s Tongues Untied