Talk:William Dorsey Swann/Archive 1

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 31 August 2021 and 16 December 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Autumn B03. Peer reviewers: Hynd333.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 18:41, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Biography section and sub-sections within it
I feel like this article could be structured much more like a biography. This may need some editing or additions, but I think it should be formatted something like this: 1 Biography 1.1	Early life 1.2	Performance work and identity 1.3	Other activism 1.4	Later life 1.5	Death 2	Postmortem developments/legacy 3	Tributes I know we may not be able to add some of this information due to the lack of info, but I feel like it would make this article much more structured and professional. Corawinkelman (talk) 18:42, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

More information and sources need to be added
After reading this article and then doing more supplemental research I feel like this article is way too short to properly summarize the life and work of William Dorsey Swann. This article's main section titled "Life and activism" focuses mostly on Swann's arrest on April 12th 1888 and only briefly mentions his activism and his life's work. I also think the fact that the article doesn't mention more about Swann's history as a slave is an issue. Many people do not know that the first drag queen in America was an African American, so I feel like that should be emphasized more especially since drag ball culture has had such an influential effect on African American men in the past and present.

Sydneyoscott (talk) 20:25, 7 March 2022 (UTC)Sydneyoscott


 * Okay after doing a little more research, we could add in the article that he was nicknamed “The Queen.” Also that arrests that were made at his parties were published in the local newspaper, so townsfolk risked their reputation by attending. Swann became very known in his town due to his many arrests. Thus, it became more and more difficult for him to throw these parties Corawinkelman (talk) 19:11, 23 March 2022 (UTC)