Terence Alan Smith
- Actor
Terence Alan Smith, also known as Joan Jett Blakk, is a globally recognized activist, political candidate, and drag queen from Detroit, Michigan. A short documentary featuring Smith premiered at SXSW in March 202. In August 2021 director Whitney Skauge and Smith received the Outfest: Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival Special Programming Award: Freedom "for their collaboration on the short documentary The Beauty President, a reflection on the legacy of a young, Black, drag queen who, at the height of the AIDS crisis, brazenly ran against George H. W Bush for president on the Queer Nation Party Ticket in 1992." In October 2021 the film premiered online with LA Times Studios.