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

Affirmations

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

Anthem

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis.