In Search of Our Black Queer Ancestors

In Search of Our Black Queer Ancestors

A Conversation with Historian-Journalist Channing Gerald Joseph
Stonewall National Museum & Archives

Join us on Tuesday May 4th, 2021 at 6:30 pm for “”In Search of Our Black Queer Ancestors,” a ZOOM conversation with Historian-Journalist Channing Gerald Joseph and SNMA Executive Director Hunter O’Hanian.

The work of Channing Gerard Joseph (lecturer, University of Southern California) is an effort to recover and reclaim the histories and cultural contributions of queer Black Americans, particularly the queer community around William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved Black man who was the first-documented drag queen. Joseph’s research also explores the lives of Mary Jones/Peter Sewally, Frances Thompson, and other Black queer figures of the 19th century.