Marlon Riggs short films screening (Fired Up! film series)

Join Queer Coalition, Illinois State’s sponsored LGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, and graduate student affinity group, for a FREE screening of three short films directed by pioneering HIV-positive filmmaker Marlon Riggs. With Affirmations (1990) and Anthem (1991), Riggs presents a defiant celebration of desire and resistance. His penultimate work, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret) (1993) profiles five HIV-positive Black men discussing their individual confrontations with AIDS. Dr. Byron Craig will provide a short scholarly introduction prior to the films.

This event is part of Queer Coalition’s spring film series, “Fired Up! The American AIDS Crisis on Film,” which also includes the following screenings:

• Wednesday, February 11, 7 p.m.: Buddies (1985)
• Wednesday, February 18, 7 p.m.: United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012)
• Wednesday, March 4, 7 p.m.: Poison (1991)

“Fired Up: The American AIDS Crisis on Film” is presented by the Illinois State University Queer Coalition; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; School of Theatre, Dance, and Film; Wonsook Kim School of Art; Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Department of History; Department of Health Sciences; and Department of Psychology.

If you need an accommodation to fully participate in this program/event, please contact Queer Coalition at LGBTQ@IllinoisState.edu. Please allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.