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‘A hero’s origins’: the true story of the first drag queen presidential candidate

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The Guardian‘A hero’s origins’: the true story of the first drag queen presidential candidate
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In off-Broadway show Ms Blakk for President, Oscar-winning Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney explores a slice of under-appreciated queer history At the height of the Aids crisis, Chicago activist Terence Alan Smith put on his drag persona, Joan Jett…

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