Oak Lawn — The Gayborhood

The largest LGBTQ+-affirming church in the world — founded in Dallas in 1970, with a Philip Johnson-designed sanctuary that stands as one of the most significant pieces of LGBTQ+ architecture in the United States.

The annual Halloween street party — one of the largest in Texas, and a tradition that began as a small community gathering and became a citywide event.

The commercial heart of Dallas's Gayborhood — the stretch of Cedar Springs between Oak Lawn Avenue and Throckmorton Street that became one of the most vibrant LGBTQ+ corridors in the American South.

The former site of Crossroads Market — the gay bookstore and community hub that operated on Cedar Springs for decades, and what its loss meant.

Founded in 1984, the Dallas Voice is the LGBTQ+ newspaper of record for North Texas — the publication that documented this community's history in real time through its most difficult decades.

One of the longest-running gay bars on Cedar Springs — an anchor of the strip through the AIDS crisis and four decades of neighborhood change.

An AIDS Healthcare Foundation thrift store on the Strip — with a free HIV-testing clinic inside, where every purchase funds the fight.

Crisis lines, HIV testing & PrEP, youth and family support — where to find help, all in one place. Free to everyone.

Dallas's legendary LGBTQ+ country western bar — where two-stepping and line dancing have been the weekly ritual of the community since the 1980s.

A cornerstone dance club of Cedar Springs — a fixture of Dallas LGBTQ+ nightlife through multiple eras.

One of the few remaining lesbian bars in Dallas — a community institution in a country where lesbian bars have been closing at an alarming rate.

The Cedar Springs community was built in the shadow of regular police harassment — the history of how Dallas's LGBTQ+ community fought for the right to gather publicly.

The green corridor along Turtle Creek marking the Katy Trail boundary of the Gayborhood — a gathering space for the LGBTQ+ community for decades.