The first drag queen was a former slave from the 1880’s according to a queer historian and journalist. Channing Gerard Joseph uncovered the story of William Dorsey Swann – or as his friends knew him – ‘The Queen’.
Swann was born in Maryland around 1858, and described himself as a “queen of drag”, essentially a drag […] The post First self-proclaimed drag queen was a former slave leading a queer resistance group appeared first on GCN.