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Clippings on the back of photo reads--"Sep. 7, 1992--Celebrity pick: 'The best scent is in my kitchen when I am cooking gumbo.' Marlon Riggs, independent film maker, gay activist and UC-Berkeley professor." June 15, 1992-"Emmy-winning filmmaker Marlon Riggs." October 22, 1992--"`Maybe they made a mistake. . .Yes, I am a black queen for Clinton. . .but I'm not a lady.'" The photo shows Riggs posing with his award. Excerpt from Oakland Tribune, June 15, 1992, article titled "KQED viewers get thought provoking 'Color Adjustment'": "...Rigg's work has won him the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Lifetime Achievement Award, an Emmy for his 'Ethnic Notions' and some 15 citations for 'Tongues Untied.' He's on the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley and working on a new film on black identity." The photo was used several times in 1992.