Landmark Lecture & Film Screening at Tudor Place: Swann Queen: Remembering DC’s First Drag Queen

Join film producer, L Cedeño Miller (they/them pronouns) and Drag Artist Pussy Noir for a film screening of “Swann Queen”. William Dorsey Swann is the first recorded person in the United States who self-identified as a drag queen. Born enslaved in Maryland in 1860, Swann went on to organize clandestine drag balls in the District of Columbia.  L Cedeño Miller and Pussy Noir will discuss this short historical fiction film, starring local drag artists Molasses and Pussy Noir, the archival research that inspired this story and how Swann’s legacy is reverberating through the activism of contemporary local drag artists. This event is free to attend. Learn more here. 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.