This experimental music video by Marlon Riggs politicises the homoeroticism of African-American men. With sensual and provocative images, Anthem reaffirms the “self-evident right” to life and liberty in an era of pervasive anti-gay and anti-Black backlash and hysterical cultural oppression.

“My struggle has allowed me to transcend the sense of shame and stigma I had as a Black gay man. Now that I've come through that fire, they can't touch me anymore,” claims Marlon Riggs.