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I'm redirecting my artist interest from one Catherine Opie to Marlon Riggs.

I plan to add information about who inspired Marlon since he had no one who truly understood him in his early years as a teen and young adult. I'd also like to explore his family dynamics such as what religious beliefs did his family hold? And does he believe in any particular form of reglion now.

List of Articles http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/riggsbib.html http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/marlon-riggs http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08989575.2000.10815246Standards (e-journal)issue dedicated to Marlon Riggs

List of Movies https://current.org/1991/08/tongues-re-tied-filmmaker-marlon-riggs-speaks-for-a-group-mainstream-america-would-prefer-to-erase/ - November 23, 2017. My article is on the SF Chinatown bubonic plague of the 1900-1904. I would like to contribute some relevant information about the people of Chinatown as I feel that this article is lacking significant information relating to the people of Chinatown pre and or post the bubonic plague epidemic of the early 1900s. Perhaps adding a new title heading will initiate more relevant inquiries on the people of Chinatown pre and post the plague...__ angel

==My Draft==The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown. It was the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.[1] The epidemic was recognized by medical authorities in March 1900, but its existence was denied for more than two years by Henry Gage, the Governor of California. His denial was based on business reasons: the wish to keep the reputations of San Francisco and California clean and to prevent the loss of revenue from trade stopped by quarantine. The failure to act quickly may have allowed the disease to establish itself among local animal populations.[2] Federal authorities worked to build a case to prove that there was a major medical health problem, and they isolated the affected area. Proof that an epidemic was occurring served to undermine the credibility of Gage, and he lost the governorship in the 1902 elections. The new governor, George Pardee, quietly implemented a medical solution and the epidemic was stopped in 1904. There were 121 cases identified, including 119 deaths.[3][4]

- After the Chinatown bubonic plague of the early 1900s the social climate affecting the Chinese community was violate and gave way for the Chinese Exclusion Acts of 1905 in the case of the United Sates vs Ju Toy by then governor Chester Arthur. http://www.history.com/topics/chinese-exclusion-act

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After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, much of urban San Francisco was destroyed by fire, including all of the Chinatown district. The process of rebuilding began immediately but took several years. While reconstruction was in full swing, a second plague epidemic hit San Francisco in May and August 1907 but it was not centered in Chinatown. Rather, cases occurred randomly throughout the city; a few more cases were identified across the bay in Oakland. San Francisco's politicians and press reacted very differently this time: they wanted the problem solved speedily.[5] Health authorities worked quickly to assess and eradicate the disease.[6] To control one of the disease's vectors, some $2 million was spent between 1907 and 1911 to kill as many rats as possible in the city.[7] By the end of the second plague outbreak in June 1908, 160 more cases had been identified, including 78 deaths, a much lower mortality rate than 1900–1904.[8] This time, all of the infected people were Caucasian.[7] Shortly thereafter, the California ground squirrel was identified as another vector of the disease.[6] The initial denial and obstructionist response to the 1900 infection may have allowed the pathogen to gain its first toehold in North America, from which it spread sporadically to other states in the form of sylvatic plague (rural plague), though it is possible the squirrel population infection predated 1900.[2][9][10][11][12]

Chinese American named Chick Gin, Wing Chung Ging or Wong Chut King became the first official plague victim in California. The 41-year-old man, born in China but a resident of San Francisco for 16 years, was a bachelor living in the basement of the Globe Hotel in Chinatown at the intersection of the streets now called Grant and Jackson.. == Even more, before migrating to the United States, Wong Chut King lived in a little village in China called Bei Keng,aka Bak Hang in a sector of China. Years later the village was renamed for political reasons.==Angel  The Globe Hotel was built in 1857 as one of the better San Francisco hotels, with the appearance of an Italian palazzo, but by the mid-1870s it was a squalid tenement crowded with Chinese residents. Just outside, Jackson Street was the Chinese red-light district, where unmarried men could visit "hundred-men's-wives". On February 7, 1900, Wong Chut King, the owner of a lumber yard, fell sick with what the Chinese doctors thought was typhus or gonorrhea, the latter a sexually transmitted disease common to Chinatown's residents at that time. The medicine they prescribed did not give any relief and he