Marlon Riggs
Film director
1957 – 1994
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Who was Marlon Riggs?
Marlon Troy Riggs was a gay African-American filmmaker, educator, poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black is... Black Ain't. Riggs' aesthetically innovative and socially provocative films examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in America. The Marlon Riggs Collection is now housed at Stanford University Libraries.
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- Born
- Feb 3, 1957
Fort Worth - Also known as
- Marlon T. Riggs
- Marlon Troy Riggs
- Parents
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Died
- Apr 5, 1994
Oakland
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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