Channing Gerard Joseph

Journalist Channing Gerard Joseph is the author of the biography, House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Queens (Crown/Picador, 2021), which tells the true story of William Dorsey Swann, a former slave who became the world’s first self-described “drag queen” and leader of possibly the world’s earliest gay liberation organization. Joseph is a former staff writer and editor at The New York Times and the Associated Press, and he was the first African-American editor of San Francisco’s SF Weekly. His articles have been published by The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, MTV News, and many others.