Essex Hemphill Movies

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

Portraits of some of the gay community's most renowned artists and spiritual leaders, with commentary by noted author and photographer Mark Thompson.

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

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

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

Between 2014 and 2017, McClodden revived the work of deceased Black queer artists who were active during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, including the poet...

Video performance of poetry by Essex Hemphill in performance with Larry Duckette, Brenda Files & Cordell Credle