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Joan Jett Blakk/Lick Bush in '92 audio and moving image collection : 127 items.
- Title
- Joan Jett Blakk/Lick Bush in '92 audio and moving image collection : 127 items.
- Author
- Jett Blakk, Joan.
- Publication
- [2010]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MIRS Jett-Blakk 2010-06 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Description
- 124 videocassettes
- 3 audiocassettes
- Summary
- The collection consists of 3 audio recordings and 124 moving image recordings documenting Terence Smith's drag persona Joan Jett Blakk as she campaigns in the 1991 Chicago mayoral election and the 1992 presidential election.
- Subjects
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- Female impersonators
- African American gay men
- African American gays
- Gay activists > United States
- Gay men > United States
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Actors > United States
- African American presidential candidates
- African American political activists
- African American gay actors
- African American actors
- Kydd, Elspeth
- Gomez, Gabriel, 1962-
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Biography (note)
- Joan Jett Blakk is the drag performance and political persona of Terence Smith, a gay black, activist, and political candidate. Blakk first garnered a measure of national attention when he ran for president of the United States in 1992. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Smith began performing as a drag queen by the name of Teri Stuart in 1974. After relocating to Chicago, he became heavily involved in the city's gay community, and was a founding member of the Chicago chapter of Queer Nation, a nationwide LGBT organization with the goal of increasing the visibility of the LGBT community and their sociopolitical issues. In 1992, Blakk became the first drag queen to run for president, entering the presidential race on the Queer Nation Party ticket. Blakk's candidacy aimed to bring national attention to LGBT issues through public performance art, and her campaign succeeded in raising the national profile of the LGBT community by obtaining mainstream coverage on television, radio and news publications. Blakk's presidential campaign slogan, "Lick Bush in '92," inspired the title of a second documentary directed by Gomez and kydd, "Lick Bush in '92" (1993), which chronicled Blakk's year-long campaign for president. The documentary was screened at various gay and lesbian film festivals in Chicago and San Francisco.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Joan Jett Blakk/Lick Bush in '92 archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division (Sc MG 897)
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Jett-Blakk 2010-06
- OCLC
- 1176299312
- Author
- Jett Blakk, Joan.
- Title
- Joan Jett Blakk/Lick Bush in '92 audio and moving image collection : 127 items.
- Imprint
- [2010]
- Biography
- Joan Jett Blakk is the drag performance and political persona of Terence Smith, a gay black, activist, and political candidate. Blakk first garnered a measure of national attention when he ran for president of the United States in 1992. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Smith began performing as a drag queen by the name of Teri Stuart in 1974. After relocating to Chicago, he became heavily involved in the city's gay community, and was a founding member of the Chicago chapter of Queer Nation, a nationwide LGBT organization with the goal of increasing the visibility of the LGBT community and their sociopolitical issues. In 1992, Blakk became the first drag queen to run for president, entering the presidential race on the Queer Nation Party ticket. Blakk's candidacy aimed to bring national attention to LGBT issues through public performance art, and her campaign succeeded in raising the national profile of the LGBT community by obtaining mainstream coverage on television, radio and news publications. Blakk's presidential campaign slogan, "Lick Bush in '92," inspired the title of a second documentary directed by Gomez and kydd, "Lick Bush in '92" (1993), which chronicled Blakk's year-long campaign for president. The documentary was screened at various gay and lesbian film festivals in Chicago and San Francisco.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Joan Jett Blakk/Lick Bush in '92 archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division (Sc MG 897)
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Jett-Blakk 2010-06