Why is CIncinnati known as the Queen City?

From the Cincinnati Historical Society Library's Web site:

How did Cincinnati come to be known as the Queen City?

During the first forty years after its founding, Cincinnati experienced spectacular growth. By 1820, citizens, extremely proud of their city, were referring to it as The Queen City or The Queen of the West. On May 4, 1819, B. Cooke wrote in the Inquisitor and Cincinnati Advertiser, "The City is, indeed, justly styled the fair Queen of the West: distinquished for order, enterprise, public spirit, and liberality, she stands the wonder of an admiring world." In 1854, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his poem, Catawba Wine, to memorialize the city's vineyards, especially those of Nicholas Longworth. The last stanza of the poem reads:

"And this Song of the Vine,

This greeting of mine,

The winds and the birds shall deliver,

To the Queen of the West,

In her garlands dressed,

On the banks of the Beautiful River."

Because Cincinnati has the largest LGBT population in the state of Ohio. Back in the 1980 s and 1990 s there were a lot of gay nightclubs that featured drag shows. This led many in the state to label Cinci the Queen City.

First of all Cincinnati is a dump. So is Charlotte. That any of these cities think they are anywhere near the level of New York City is laughable.

To make it sound good. Every city in the west needed a nice nickname.

"Called the "Queen of the West" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (although this nickname was first used by a local newspaper in 1819)"

Cincinnati has many nicknames, that is just one.

I thought it had to do with riverboating