How Black queer culture shaped history | Channing Gerard Joseph

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Names like Bayard Rustin, Frances Thompson and William Dorsey Swann have been largely erased from US history, but they and other Black queer leaders played central roles in monumental movements like emancipation, civil rights and LGBTQ+ pride, among others. In this tribute to forgotten icons, queer culture historian and TED Fellow Channing Gerard Joseph shares their little-known stories, connecting the origins of drag in the 1880s to the present day and exploring the awesome power to choose how we define ourselves.

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0:13.7	Here's something I've never learned in school.
0:16.0	In the US, black emancipation and drag culture have tremendous overlap.
0:21.7	And this is left out of our history classes.
0:24.2	In his talk from Ted 2022, queer culture historian Channing Gerard Joseph makes the case for
0:29.5	why learning black queer history is key to understanding our shared history.
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