Summary
Organization name
Badge Of Pride
Causes
LGBTQIA
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant
Address
300 S. Montreal AveDallas, TX 75208
About
Our Work
Preserve Queer History. Fuel Cultural Power. Make Change Real.
Badge Of Pride advances LGBTQ+ history as public knowledge, public culture and public power. In just three years, we’ve grown from a grassroots idea into an impactful nonprofit in the cultural fabric of North Texas and beyond—activating a nationally significant archive of 10,000+ artifacts and welcoming thousands into spaces where Queer history is visible, accessible and alive in the present.
In 2025, our landmark exhibition Badge Of Pride: From Silence…To Celebration!—the largest artifact-centered LGBTQ+ history exhibition ever presented in Texas—earned a 2025 Silver Anthem Award and brought more than 3,000 visitors into the galleries at the Irving Archives & Museum. Free admission. Gender-inclusive Spanish translation. Public programs. Partnerships with local, national and global organizations. People came for the history, but stayed for the connection, the context and the sense of belonging.
Why It Matters
Across Texas, communities are confronting growing efforts to erase LGBTQ+ stories from classrooms, libraries, and public life. This is a decisive moment: either history contracts—or it expands.
Your support ensures it expands.
When you give to Badge Of Pride, you help protect irreplaceable artifacts, capture voices that have never been recorded, and bring Queer history into the spaces where it’s urgently needed. You are fueling visibility, education, and cultural understanding at a moment when all three are under threat.
Amplify LGBTQ+ Voices
Our programs turn memory into momentum. From statewide oral-history work in Deep in the Heart to our new performance series CORRESPONDENCE: Letters of Queer Resistance, Love & Revolution, we partner with artists, writers, historians, elders, and young people to animate the past and speak to the present.
We design projects at the intersection of art, activism, and historical truth—projects that move people, provoke dialogue, and expand cultural understanding.
Promote Inclusion & Intersectionality
Badge Of Pride’s work centers the full breadth of LGBTQ+ experience—across race, gender identity, disability, class, age, and geography. We prioritize the stories of Black, Brown, Indigenous, trans, nonbinary, disabled, immigrant, and rural Queer Texans whose histories have been underserved or erased.
Equity is not an add-on; it’s the framework for everything we protect, present, and imagine.
Join Us — Be Part of History in Motion
Your investment carries LGBTQ+ history into the future. Your support moves stories from the margins to the center. Your partnership ensures that future generations inherit a record that reflects truth, courage, creativity, and community.
| $50 | Preservation materials for artifacts |
| $100 | Digitizes 5 artifacts for global access |
| $250 | Records and transcribes one oral history |
| $500 | Bilingual translation for exhibit/program content |
| $750 | Supports a community program or workshop |
| $1,000 | Funds a rural oral-history field visit |
| $2,500 | Helps transport the traveling exhibit to a Texas community |
| $5,000 | Underwrites a season of CORRESPONDENCE or Say It Loud |
| $10,000 | Major support for traveling exhibit fabrication + access |
Mission
Badge Of Pride collects and activates artifacts from LGBTQ+ history to inform, enrich and engage the power of the contemporary Queer experience.
Needs
At Badge Of Pride, we are building one of the most ambitious LGBTQ+ public-history efforts in Texas. Your partnership keeps Queer stories visible, protected, and part of the cultural life of our communities.
Your support powers the next phase of Badge Of Pride’s work: taking "From Silence…To Celebration!" on the road to communities across Texas and the South where Queer history is often inaccessible; expanding community programs like Say It Loud, CORRESPONDENCE, and our art-activism workshops; and advancing "Deep in the Heart," our statewide rural oral-history project documenting LGBTQ+ lives at risk of disappearing without action now.
You also help safeguard our growing archive of 10,000+ artifacts through digitization, preservation, research, and public access—ensuring these stories remain protected, interpreted, and woven into the cultural life of our communities. Your investment carries LGBTQ+ history forward and makes it reachable where it’s needed most.
Equity Statement
Badge Of Pride is built on the understanding that the Queer community has never been one story. It is many histories, many identities, many lived realities—shaped by race, gender identity, sexuality, disability, class, age, immigration, geography, and experience. These intersections are not peripheral to our work; they are the foundation of it.
We acknowledge that the historical record has been shaped by systems that decide who is seen and who is pushed to the margins. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, xenophobia, and class inequity have influenced what is preserved, what is dismissed, and whose lives are treated as worthy of memory. These forces have harmed not only society at large but the LGBTQ+ community itself.
Our commitment is to confront those inequities directly. We ground our work in accountability, transparency, and a practice of community-centered decision-making. We prioritize the voices and leadership of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color; trans and nonbinary communities; disabled Queer people; immigrants; and those whose histories have been systematically denied space.
Through exhibitions, oral histories, public programs, and partnerships, we aim to reshape who carries authority in historical storytelling. We work to expand access, bridge generational and cultural divides, and ensure that the historical record reflects the full breadth of LGBTQ+ life.
Equity is not a statement for us—it is the process, the practice, and the path. And it guides every artifact we preserve, every story we uplift, and every community we serve.
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Dallas, TX 75208