In Affirmations, a film made from the outtakes of " Tongues Untied ", Riggs included a coming-out story of black gay writer Reginald T. Jackson and footage of black gay men marching in a Harlem African American Freedom Day Parade.

Besides making documentaries and teaching at Berkeley, Riggs also wrote poetry from time to time, as evidenced in Tongues Untied, which contains several of his poems about his life experiences as a black gay man.

television series on PBS, which Tongues Untied was a part of, also received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in the amount of $ 250, 000.

In the 1992 Republican presidential primaries, presidential candidate Pat Buchanan cited Tongues Untied as an example of how President George H. W. Bush was investing “ our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art .” Buchanan released an anti-Bush television advertisement for his campaign using re-edited clips from Tongues United.

Riggs defended Tongues Untied for its ability to “ shatter this nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference .” He explained that the widespread attack on PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts by moral critics in response to the film was predictable, since “ any public institution caught deviating from their puritanical morality is inexorably blasted as contributing to the nation's social decay .” In his defense, Riggs claimed that “ implicit in the much overworked rhetoric about ' community standards ' is the assumption of only one central community ( patriarchal, heterosexual and usually white ) and only one overarching cultural standard ( ditto ) to which television programming must necessarily appeal .” Riggs stated that ironically, the censorship campaign against Tongues Untied actually brought more publicity to the film than it would have otherwise received and thus allowed it to achieve its initial aim of challenging societal standards regarding depictions of race and sexuality.

Nihon Goraku Bussan, Ltd. used the brand name SEGA ( the name originates from SErvice GAmes Japan ) for their jukeboxes and slot machines which were located on Untied States Military bases for amusement purposes.

Noteworthy KQED television productions include the first installment of Armistead Maupin's miniseries Tales of the City, Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs, and a series of programs focusing on the historic neighborhoods in San Francisco, such as The Castro and The Fillmore District.

The Untied Métis Tribe claims to be " a sovereign Nation as defined by the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Rights.

The same year, Sykes appeared in an hour-long Comedy Central special, Tongue Untied.

Her memoir, titled Untied, was published in 2011.

He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black Is.

The 1989 film Tongues Untied, a highly personalized and moving documentary about the life experiences of gay African-American men, was aired as part of the PBS television series P. O. V.

The three principle voices of Tongues Untied are those of Riggs as well as gay rights activists and men infected with HIV Essex Hemphill and Joseph Beam.

Riggs explained that Tongues Untied was a catharsis for him: " It was a release of a lot of decades-old, pent-up emotion, rage, guilt, feelings of impotence in the face of some of my experiences as a youth.

In 1988, while working on Tongues Untied, Riggs was diagnosed with HIV after undergoing treatment for near-fatal kidney failure at a hospital in Germany.

In the short 1990 piece Affirmations, Riggs further developed his critique of homophobia that he originally expressed in Tongues Untied.

In his poem “ Tongues Untied ,” Riggs discusses the racism he encountered as a child while living in Georgia as well as coming out about his homosexuality.

According to Nichols, Marlon Riggs used the Performative Mode for films such as Anthem and Tongues Untied.

Tongues Untied is another highly personal, emotional, and artistic form of the Performative Mode that Marlon's films evoke.

Tongues Untied was awarded Best Documentary at the Berlin Film Festival.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Riggs's production Tongues Untied triggered a national controversy surrounding the airing of the video on American public television stations.

Reverend Donald E. Wildmon, the president of the American Family Association, opposed PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts for airing Tongues Untied but hoped that the film would be widely released, because he believed most Americans would find it offensive.

After his death these appeared again in Gen. Albert Pike ’ s Poems ( 1900 ) and Lyrics and Love Songs ( 1916 ).

* Anthology of Poems: The Love Section ( 1793 – 1794 )

Rhyming Love Poems

The Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, W. S. Merwin and J. Moussaieff Masson, eds.

* War and Love: Poems 1915 – 1918 ( 1919 )

His latest effort is titled A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life ( 2002 ).

* I Shout Love and Other Poems ( 1987 )

These recordings were released as Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz in Canada ( 1959 ), Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen ( 1960 ), Kenneth Patchen Reads His Love Poems ( 1961 ), and The Journal of Albion Moonlight ( 1972 ).

* The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen, 1960

* Awash with Roses: Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen, 1999

* Kenneth Patchen Reads His Love Poems, 1961, Folkways Records, FW09719

* Philoctetes is mentioned in Poem VIII of " 21 Love Poems " by Adrienne Rich:

* Dave Malone in his poem, " A Long Weekend " in Poems to Love and the Body ( Bliss Station, 1998 ; Smashwords, 2010 ), weaves a modern-day love poem with references to Nefertiti, King Akhenaten, and the city, Akhetaten ( Amarna ).

* Scottish Love Poems ( 1975 )

* The Iron Breadboard: Studies in New Zealand Writing, 1950000 * The Night Shift: Poems on Aspects of Love, 1957 ( with Charles Doyle, Louis Johnson and Kendrick Smithyman )

* Lords of Winter and of Love: A Book of Canadian Love Poems in English and French-1993

His daughter, Millicent Wedmore ( b. 1879 ), herself the author of two volumes of verse, helped him to edit during World War I Poems of the Love and Pride of England.

This was followed in quick succession by Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Poems of Humor & Protest by Kenneth Patchen, but it was the impact of the fourth volume, Howl and Other Poems ( 1956 ) by Allen Ginsberg that brought national attention to the author and publisher.

* The Love Poems of Irving Layton.

* The Love Poems of Irving Layton: With Reverence & Delight.