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Sam CrystalHeart

@crystalheartsam

Hello! I am Sam! I am 22, Demigirl, She/They/Fae Profile Pic by @yoliethenotsoalive
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Age- 22

Pronouns- She/They/Fae

Do Not Interact: Nazis, Racists, Trump Supporters, Terf/Swerf/Radfems, Proshipper, Fatphobic, Zoophiles, MAPs/Pedos, Anti-LBGTQIA+, Anti-MOGAI, Anti Neopronouns, Misogynists, Ableists

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#intro post#latest update on June 19 2026
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Pride Posting: William Dorsey Swann, the first drag queen

William Dorsey Swann was the first drag queen. Swann was born into slavery in Maryland just before the Civil War. In the 1880s, as a young adult, he moved to Washington, DC to find work to help support his parents and siblings. In Washington, he found the Emancipation Day parade, an enormous annual celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the US capitol. The highlights of the parade were called queens: Beautiful, crowned Black women who personified African-Americans’ newfound freedom. The queens of Emancipation Day so inspired Swann, that he adopted the title “queen” for himself at the secret dance that he and his friends called “a drag.” The word “drag” possibly comes from a contraction of “grand rag,” which is an early term for a masquerade ball.
Stated by the National Museums Liverpool, “Swann consistently resisted the censorship of their drag balls and continued to organise and hold events in Washington D.C. for several years. Swann was sentenced, in 1896, to 10 months in prison for the false charge of ‘keeping a disorderly house,’ also known as a brothe.l” That made Swann the earliest documented American activist to take steps to defend the queer community. But of course, the authorities couldn’t stop Swann and it especially didn’t stop Balls from continuing to expand to other cities. Today, queer drag is mainstream. From “Pose” to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and the houses of 21st century ballroom culture, with queens who preside over beauty and dance contests, have maintained the same basic structure as Swann’s 19th-century community. (from GLAAD)
Black Queer History is American History | GLAAD
As we round out October with LGBTQ History, it’s important to note the amount of BIPOC Queer History that has been an integral part of Ameri
GLAAD | GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance.|Tymia Ballard, Communities of Color Junior Associate
William Dorsey Swann: The first "Queen of Drag" | American Masters | PBS
Born into slavery, Swann was the first known person to identify as a “Queen of Drag” and the first known American activist to lead a queer r
American Masters|David Polk
William Dorsey Swann - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
The First Self-Proclaimed Drag Queen Was a Formerly Enslaved Man
In the late 19th century, William Dorsey Swann's private parties attracted unwelcome attention from authorities and the press
Smithsonian Magazine|Cari Shane
From slavery to voguing: the House of Swann
What is Drag? Where did the concept of Drag Queens start? There are multiple answers to those two simple questions.  Drag has been variously
National Museums Liverpool
The First Drag Queen - American Academy in Berlin
by Channing Joseph Striking a pose for emancipation
American Academy in Berlin|Juliane Schallau
William Dorsey Swann (1858-1954)
Queenie Swann, as he was honored by his peers, is one of the first known Black cross-dressers and LGBTQIA activists. He was born William Dor
BlackPast.org|Otis Alexander
William Dorsey Swann, the Queen of Drag
Today’s post was written by Netisha Currie, archives specialist at the National Archives in College Park, MD. The wonderful thing about the
Rediscovering Black History
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An informational comic I drew last year for my Comics 2 class, reposting it to my new account (had to jump ship from the old one unfortunately) with some minor grammar changes and learned my lesson in adding watermarks! Happy early pride :)

#pride
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i do find the rules around clothes fascinating because of how made up it all is. we invented the idea of covering our bodies from the elements because we lack fur like other mammals and then made up all these rules around it and now people will unironically tell you "men cant wear skirts its unnatural" girl none of this is natural. we are born naked and made up the rest as we went along. hope this helps.

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Right.

Because the military, an establishment that has historically been run for men, by men, while miles away from women for sometimes years at a time, has never allowed drag.

What the fuck

Do you think our forefathers

Would think of us

If they could see us now

Emasculating ourselves with makeup

Dressing like pansies

Making fools of ourselves

Absolutely mocking the very concept of masculinity

While they were giving their lives fighting the Nazis.

Yes, I know the last three photos are British, and you can kindly fuck off.

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Wow look at how sparkly it is! Yes, keep paying attention to the sparkles. The contents? You don’t need to know that. Just look at those sparkles!