I WANT A PRESIDENT

I want a president was inspired by the announcement by Leonard's friend, Eileen Myles, a poet and activist who announced that she wa s entering the 1992 race for president of the United States as an openly female candidate. Myles ran as an independent against Georg e H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. Myles's identity stood in contrast to her wealthy male opponents/ she is a gay woman, an d comes from a community directly affected by both poverty and AIDS.