Terence Alan Smith as himself and as Joan Jett Blakk

Friends of former drag activist Joan Jett Blakk have added a new enticement to the ongoing appeal support; boldly designed T-shirts.

As previously reported in the Bay Area Reporter, Blakk, the drag persona of Terence Alan Smith, 67, lives in San Francisco, and suffered a stroke in 2024. Smith had been hospitalized and is now in residential care.

Kokoe Johnson, president of Comfort and Joy, the queer community and arts collective, told the B.A.R. that Smith had been hospitalized since he “passed out at a bus stop in Alameda County” on April 25, 2024. Johnson said that Smith has been since hospitalized in Oakland.

Now, as previously reported, Johnson is coordinating Smith’s ongoing rehabilitation care. The two met in Chicago, where Smi

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