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Caraberry. Crazy enough I'm the host and my name is Caraberry. There's no bad bitch quote for the week.

Actually I'm going to suspend them for the month because as most of you know it's the most wonderful time of the year and by

that I mean it's February and it's Black History Month.

So what I was going to do this month is to highlight some black people who have given a lot of contributions to the culture.

This is going to be a little bit of a long one but I think it's really

going to be worth it. I thought this was great. This is a story of a man named William

Dorsey Swan, but to his friends he was known as the Queen.

Born in Maryland in around 1858, Swan endured slavery, the sliver war, racism, police surveillance, torture behind bars, and many other injustices.

But beginning in the 1880s, he not only became the first American activist to lead a queer resistance group.

He also became in the same decade the first person known to dub himself a quote,

Queen of Drag or a drag queen. So in 1896 William had been convicted and sentenced to 10

months in jail on the false charge of what they would call keeping a disorderly house,

which means it's a euphemism for running a brothel.

Swan demanded and did not, and was denied a pardon from President Grover, Cleveland

for holding a drag ball. So this was a historic act is the first recorded American

to take specific legal and political steps to defend the queer communities right together without the threat of criminalization, suppression, or police violence.

So he also had an article written about him in the late 80s of 1880s.

So this article is from the Washington Post of from April 13th 1888. The

headline is Negro Dive rated 13 black men dresses women, surprise, at supper, and arrested.

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