We Are Everywhere!
Wed, Mar 18
|Bishop Arts Theatre Center
The voices that shaped Queer history—brought together in one explosive performance. From early declarations to street-level upheaval, experience the words that sparked a movement and still charge the air today.
Time & Location
Mar 18, 2026, 7:30 PM
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
We Are Everywhere! is a staged reading performance built entirely from publicly available primary sources—letters, speeches, political testimony, published essays, and declarations from LGBTQ+ writers, activists, organizers, and artists across multiple generations. Every excerpt is presented verbatim and brought into conversation through a collective ensemble of contemporary readers from Dallas’s Queer community.
Structured around six interconnected arcs, the performance moves through early identity formation, community organizing, public protest, expressions of love and kinship, the devastation and mobilization of the AIDS years, and global struggles for dignity and safety. Together, these texts trace how LGBTQ+ people have articulated their lives, demands, and visions for decades — in their own words, on their own terms.
Presented at the Bishop Arts Theatre Center, the performance uses non-literal casting: readers…