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Jul 14, 2022

Update: Dupont’s Swann Street Dedicated To William Dorsey Swann, The First Self-Described ‘Queen Of Drag’

After the Civil War, Dorsey Swann led groups of formerly enslaved Black men in the first documented drag balls.

 
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