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Tongues Untied is a blogging project of the CLGS African American Roundtable for LGBTQQI people of African descent. The blog's name derives from Marlon Riggs' 1989 semi-documentary film by the same name. The film blended documentary footage with personal account and fiction in an attempt to depict the specificity of black gay identity. Riggs was an outspoken African American gay rights activist, poet, educator, and filmmaker. In 2006 Riggs was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association Hall of Fame. In 1994 he died from AIDS-related illness. In his memory the objective of this blog is to lift up our voices on issues of importance to us as a community.

Click on one of the blog entries below and join the conversation! (Committed to advancing the well-being of LGBT people, CLGS reserves the right to edit or remove blog postings that are not compatible with the Center's mission.) 

Blog Entries

"Remembering Two-Spirits this Thanksgiving," by Rev. Irene Monroe (November 2009)

"Will Bernice King's Bully Pulpit Bash Gays?" by Rev. Irene Monroe (November 2009) 

"Out of My Black Church, Into the Streets," by Rev. Irene Monroe (October 2009)

"Living While Black in Cambridge," by Rev. Irene Monroe (August 2009) 

"Let the Episcopal Church Say Amen," by Rev. Irene Monroe

"The Queerness of Michael Jackson," by Rev. Irene Monroe (July 2009) 

"Obama Not Marching with Black Pride," by Rev. Irene Monroe (June 2009) 

"Proposition Hate Redux," by Rev. Irene Monroe (May 2009)

"When Queer Communities of Color are Not Needed to Win Marriage Rights," by Rev. Irene Monroe (April 2009)