The early 90s was an exciting but difficult time to be a queer person in the U.S.

The AIDS crisis was still claiming so many lives, and after eight years of President Reagan,

not even mentioning the word AIDS, and four years of President Bush's inaction,

LGBT folks felt invisible invisible and our visibility

was a matter of life and death.

In the spirit of making a political statement and shocking the squares, Joan Jet Black,

backed by Queer Nation, launched her bid to become President of the United States with the

catchy slogan,

lick Bush in 92.

This bold political performance art would have been just a delightful footnote in the

history of queer activism until this year when Broadway director Tina Landau and

Moonlight Oscar winner Terrell Alvin McCraney presented their new play, Ms. Black for President, now playing at the Steppenwolf Theater.

Today, Terence Allen Smith, the artist behind the drag personage of Joan Jett Black, joins us to talk about that amazing time when a black drag queen ran for president of the United States of America.

And how 27 years later, Black is back and she's ready to make a big splash.

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