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Sapito VerdeJul 16, 2020

🌈🦋✊🏿 From slave to Queen: The extraordinary life of William Dorsey Swann who was born into slavery in the 1800s and became the 'first drag queen to fight for queer freedom'

By Valerie Edwards For Dailymail.com / 03 Feb 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7961491/William-Dorsey-Swann-born-slavery-1800s-drag-queen.html

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William Dorsey Swann was a slave who became 'first drag queen'

The life of William Dorsey Swann, the first drag queen who was born into slavery, is being told for the first time in a new book titled, The House of Swann. The images are file photos from 1903.