The downtown Dallas skyline at dusk under a deep blue sky, its tallest tower outlined in bright green light and the streets below lit amber. — Downtown The skyline at dusk, its tallest tower traced in green.

One city, read by the places that make it.

Dallas In Common is a guide to Dallas that starts with where things happen: a clinic in Oak Lawn, a Juneteenth gathering in South Dallas, a mural in Oak Cliff, and works outward from there. We carry no advertising and no paid placements, and we are not affiliated with anyone we cover.

Oak Lawn & Cedar Springs

Health & LGBTQ+

A core part of this guide: plain-language help for LGBTQ+ life and sexual health in Dallas, written for someone who needs an answer today and is being sold nothing.

A vintage red pickup truck rolling down Cedar Springs Road during a Dallas Pride parade, a rider waving a Texas flag from the truck bed as onlookers line the sidewalk. — Cedar Springs Road The Pride parade through the heart of Oak Lawn.

Dallas LGBTQ+ ResourcesCommunity centers, affirming clinics, and support lines, gathered in one plain list.
Free HIV Testing in DallasWhere testing is offered at no cost, and what a visit is actually like.
PrEP & HIV PreventionHow prevention works and how to start it with a Dallas provider.

This section is rooted in Oak Lawn, the historic center of LGBTQ+ Dallas.

Fair Park & South Dallas

History

Black and LGBTQ+ Dallas, kept as a documented record in our own words: a permanent home for the city's own history rather than a passing tag.

Dallas Black LGBTQ+ HistoryA standing, sourced archive of the community's record: the people, places, and organizations that shaped it, cited and told plainly.
Black History & Juneteenth in DallasJuneteenth began in Texas; this is how Dallas has marked it, and the wider Black history the city is built on.

Written as history, not heritage marketing. Where an organization is named, it is treated as a documented part of the record, never as something this publication continues.

A large painted mural on the gable wall of a building in the Bishop Arts District, showing a wrought-iron gate arch reading "Bishop's Gate" over a street scene of walkers, a cyclist, and storefronts under a swirling blue sky. — Bishop Arts, Oak Cliff A neighborhood mural of the street it stands on.

Across the city

Things to Do

Ways to spend a day here, with an eye on what's free: parks, murals, museums, and the small neighborhood happenings that reward wandering.

White Rock to Oak Cliff

Neighborhoods

How the city fits together, block by block: beginning with the places this guide keeps returning to.

An aerial view of White Rock Lake at golden hour, with the low white Art Deco Bath House Cultural Center on the near shore and the distant downtown Dallas skyline on the horizon. — White Rock Lake The Bath House Cultural Center on the East Dallas shore.

Downtown & citywide

Community Resources

Where to turn and where to give back: a curated, independent directory of local organizations and civic services.