Meet the fierce Black drag queen who ran for US president in 1992 • GCN
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 15, 2024
Page 5, issue 40 of GCN magazine (May 1992) contained an article titled ‘Camp Pain’. It began: “Americans who thought Nancy Reagan went overboard on the designer frocks ain’t seen nothin’ yet! (The) Latest entry in the US presidential race is Chicago drag queen Joan Jett Blakk, official candidate of the newly-formed Queer Nation Party.” Blakk, also known as Terence Alan Smith, hailed from Detroit, Michigan. On her 35th birthday, January 17, wearing high heels and lipstick, the veteran drag queen and fervent activist formally announced that she would be running for president under the slogan “Lick . . .
