{"id":783,"date":"2023-03-26T23:57:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T23:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-former-slave-who-became-the-worlds-first-drag-queen-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-03-26T23:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T23:57:38","slug":"the-former-slave-who-became-the-worlds-first-drag-queen-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-former-slave-who-became-the-worlds-first-drag-queen-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The former slave who became the world&#39;s first drag queen &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iT15sCRHKJU?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>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.<\/p>\n<p>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<br \/>\nAnimation by Dan John<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iT15sCRHKJU\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secret-worlds","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}