We Are Still Becoming

Join Court Theatre for the next installment of the Agora Series, We Are Still Becoming: Stories of Family, Change, and Queer Lives, a two-part conversation series presented in partnership with the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project.

Both events in the Agora Series are free and open to the public.

Part I: Stories of Family, Change, and Queer Lives

Saturday, April 25, 2026 I Doors at 4:00pm I Discussion at 4:30pm I Court Theatre (5535 S Ellis Ave)

The first installment of We Are Still Becoming is a post-show panel discussion following a performance of Out Here, in which LGBTQ+ Dialogue Project Alumni Casey Wheeler and Georgia Lacy share lived experiences in response to the production.

• MODERATOR: Phyllis Johnson
• SPEAKER: Georgia Lacy
• SPEAKER: Casey Wheeler

Reservations for the panel discussion are not required. Attendance at Out Here is encouraged, but not required.

Part II: Diana Solís and Patric McCoy in Conversation  

Sunday, May 3, 2026 I Doors at 11:30am I Conversation at 12:00pm I Blanc Gallery (4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago)

The second installment of the Agora Series, presented in partnership with the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project, features photographers Diana Solís and Patric McCoy discussing their decades-long work documenting Chicago’s queer history. Solís is celebrated for her extensive archive of Latinx, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements in the Pilsen neighborhood, while McCoy is known for his poignant portraits of Black gay life captured during his 1980s bicycle commutes across the city. Both artists are currently featured in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago, an intergenerational exhibition highlighting the city’s essential, yet often underacknowledged, role in queer art and social justice.

• MODERATOR: KORINA HERNANDEZ
• SPEAKER: PATRICK MCCOY
• SPEAKER: DIANA SOLÍS

Reservations strongly encouraged.

About the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project

The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project connects two populations, LGBTQ+ youth and LGBTQ+ elders, who rarely have the chance to interact. A partnership between The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Center on Addison at Center on Halsted, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, they bring together racially, socioeconomically, and gender-diverse cohorts of LGBTQ+ college students and older adults (60+) for year-long series of bi-weekly themed dialogues, creative work, and shared dinners. 

The project began with a simple question: What might we learn about our own experiences through deep conversations with those younger or older than us? Specifically, what might we learn about what it means to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community in the past, present, and future?

Header image credit: zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal, to render the infinite, 2021. 11 minutes, 23 seconds; one channel video; 16:9 ratio. Courtesy of the artist, Chicago Film Archives, and Terra Foundation for American Art.