# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-dorsey-swann
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:00:42.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-dorsey-swann"
name: "William Dorsey Swann"
slug: "william-dorsey-swann"
description: "William Dorsey Swann was an American activist. An African-American born into slavery, Swann was the first person in the United States to lead a gay resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a \"queen of drag\"."
tagline: "Drag queen"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1858"
deathDate: "1925"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.5
  momentum:             3.920009494422027
  historical:           5.422244
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dorsey_Swann"
    title: "William Dorsey Swann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dorsey_Swann"
    title: "William Dorsey Swann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dorsey_Swann"
    title: "William Dorsey Swann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dorsey_Swann"
    title: "William Dorsey Swann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dorsey_Swann"
    title: "William Dorsey Swann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84177883"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump