Marlon Riggs, with help from different homosexual Black males, particularly poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black males loving Black males as a revolutionary act. The movie intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his rising up, scenes of males in social intercourse and dance, and numerous comedian riffs, together with a go to to the "Institute of Snap!thology," the place males take classes in the best way to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the purpose snap, the diva snap.
