# An Evening from the Queer Songbook: A Conversation with Taylor Mac and Matt Ray

An Evening from the Queer Songbook: A Conversation with Taylor Mac and Matt Ray at The Adam Space, Tuesday 10 November 2026.

- Price: $35
- Venue: The Adam Space
- With: Taylor Mac, Matt Ray
- Get tickets: https://commerce.bam.org/booking/production/bestavailable/57934#promocode-popup
- Go to page: https://www.bam.org/talks/2026/bark-of-millions

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An Evening from the Queer Songbook is a conversation at BAM in which Taylor Mac and Matt Ray discuss their new book, Bark of Millions: Queer Songs for the Living Library of the Deviant Theme. The two artists, a MacArthur Fellow and an Obie Award winner, wrote the four-hour rock opera Bark of Millions to expand the repertoire of songs documenting and celebrating queer lives. Their book brings together a volume of lyrics and essays and a volume of music with lead sheets for 50 of the show's songs, creating a canon of queer music for a joyful world. The evening celebrates the transcendence of joy over tragedy as seen through the personal histories of queers.

## Dates

- Tuesday 10 November — The Adam Space

Written by a model, sources: [bam.org](https://www.bam.org/talks/2026/bark-of-millions)

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