A Manifesto For Us All
Wed, Jul 29
|Bishop Arts Theatre Center
One manifesto became many voices. The 1971 Gay Liberation Front Manifesto opened a new chapter in Queer liberation. This performance traces the arguments, debates, and demands that followed, revealing a movement that was never finished and is still unfolding.
Time & Location
Jul 29, 2026, 7:30 PM CDT
Bishop Arts Theatre Center, 215 S Tyler St, Dallas, TX 75208, USA
Guests
About the event
A Badge Of Pride Project in Partnership with The Writer’s Garret
Supported in part by the City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture
Between 1970 and 1992, LGBTQ+ people wrote their way through a revolution.
They wrote manifestos in London and New York. They wrote demands from the streets. They wrote in the middle of an epidemic that was killing their friends while the government looked away. They wrote to name themselves, to organize one another, and to refuse the silence that had been assigned to them.
A Manifesto For Us All brings eight of those documents into a single performance — five movements, four readers, and decades years of political argument, grief, defiance, and vision.
The texts include the Gay Liberation Front Manifesto (London, 1971), Third World Gay Revolution, the Combahee River Collective Statement, the STAR Manifesto of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, Leslie Feinberg's Transgender Liberation,…