William Dorsey Swann was known to his friends as “the Queen.” Swann reigned over a secret world of drag balls in Washington, D.C., in the 1880s, and is the first known person to dub himself a “queen of drag” or a drag queen.  He also was the leader of possibly the world’s earliest-known queer liberation … Continue reading William Dorsey Swann was the 1st drag queen in the US