{"id":1811,"date":"2024-07-06T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/jesuisjournaliste-fr-bbc-reel-the-former-slave-who-became-the-worlds-1st-drag-queen-oct-2020\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T06:10:09","slug":"jesuisjournaliste-fr-bbc-reel-the-former-slave-who-became-the-worlds-1st-drag-queen-oct-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/jesuisjournaliste-fr-bbc-reel-the-former-slave-who-became-the-worlds-1st-drag-queen-oct-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"jesuisjournaliste.fr | BBC Reel | The former slave who became the world&#39;s 1st drag queen | Oct 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8rVUar0nJso?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>jesuisjournaliste.fr | BBC Reel | The former slave who became the world&#8217;s 1st drag queen | Oct 2020<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 years before RuPaul was telling us to &#8216;sashay away&#8217;, William Dorsey Swann, who had been born into slavery in 19th Century America, was making a name for themself as the world\u2019s first self-described drag queen. LGBTQ+ historian Channing Joseph, author of House of Swann, explains how he discovered the forgotten history of one of the earliest efforts of queer resistance and liberation in America. <\/p>\n<p>Video by Alva French ( Alva N&#8217;GUESSAN-FRENCH ) #djmas #workforhire #journalism #reportage #BBCNews #BBCGlobal #BBCReel <\/p>\n<p>Animation by Dan John<\/p>\n<p>October 12, 2020<\/p>\n<p>The former slave who became the world&#8217;s first drag queen &#8211; BBC REEL<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I was commissioned to produce this news video by BBC News &#8211; BBC Reel &#8211; BBC Global for British Black History Month, October 2020<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original link back to my reportage on the BBC Global YouTube page : https:\/\/youtu.be\/iT15sCRHKJU<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8rVUar0nJso\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jesuisjournaliste.fr | BBC Reel | The former slave who became the world&#8217;s 1st drag queen | Oct 2020 Over 100 years before RuPaul was telling us to &#8216;sashay away&#8217;, William Dorsey Swann, who had been born into slavery in 19th Century America, was making a name for themself as the world\u2019s first self-described drag queen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150476,"featured_media":1812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}