DC Department of Parks and Recreation installed a new plaque at T Street Park memorializing William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved DC resident who was one of the country’s earliest advocates for LGBTQ+ rights.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-first-self-proclaimed-drag-queen-was-a-formerly-enslaved-man-180982311/
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