Description

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 documentary-style 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 do not portray historical figures, but step into a shared continuum of LGBTQ+ experience. This approach reflects the project’s core idea—that Queer history is carried forward collectively, through people willing to give voice to the record that shaped the world they inherited.

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FEATURED PERFORMERS

C.R.U.S.H.

An internationally performed spoken word artist and founder of FluidFridays, Texas’s largest Queer open mic, C.R.U.S.H. merges poetry, community, and healing through powerful storytelling and performance.

DR Mann Hanson

Artist, activist, and entrepreneur whose work centers storytelling, creativity, and Queer visibility across performance and community spaces.

Quintin Jones, Jr.

Actor, singer, and dancer bringing dynamic presence and emotional depth to contemporary performance across North Texas.

Jennifer Pickert

Returning to the stage after a 30-year pause, Jennifer brings lived experience, warmth, and authenticity to stories about love, family, and community lived out loud.

Music by Rachel Gollay

Fort Worth-based singer-songwriter and community organizer whose band’s debut album Built for Love was named Fort Worth Weekly’s Album of the Year.

CREATIVE TEAM

The performance is curated and co-written by Adrian Cardwell, with Aaron Glover serving as co-writer and director, shaping historic texts into a shared theatrical experience.

"We Are Everywhere!" invites audiences to engage these writings directly and consider how moments of personal truth, political clarity, and cultural expression have shaped LGBTQ+ life across time. The performance offers an encounter with the historical record that is immediate, human, and connected to the ongoing work of building a more just future.

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