noted that he saw Tongues Untied when it was broadcast on PBS, and the film changed his life and gave him his voice at an early age. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was selected to be shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. New York Times critic-at-large Wesley Morris wrote "Tongues Untied is Riggs's unclassifiable scrapbook of black gay male sensibility (a hallucinatory whir of style, memory, psychology).... This is storytelling that arises from joy and pain and pride (Riggs's clearest emotional forebear is James Baldwin)." In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". See also African-American culture and sexual orientation References Bibliography External links Tongues Untied at California Newsreel POV (TV series) films 1989 films 1989 LGBT-related films 1989 independent films American LGBT-related films Documentary films about African Americans Documentary films about HIV/AIDS American independent films African-American LGBT-related films African-American films Films directed by Marlon Riggs 1980s English-language films HIV/AIDS in American films 1980s American films United States National Film Registry films