BGSQDBureau of General Services—Queer Division
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TELL is a monthly queer storytelling show hosted and curated by Drae Campbell. It is the longest running event at the Bureau! 10 years and going. Each month there is a different theme and a different line up of queer artists who tell true stories from their lives on a theme.
The theme for June is Movie Stars, featuring storytellers Carolyn Connolly, Emilio Garcia, Glenn Marla, and Swetha Regunathan.
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
Suggested donation to benefit the storytellers and the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD
Drae Campbell is the host and curator of TELL, an award winning podcast that can be found anywhere you listen to podcasts.
Theater: The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theater & National Tour, Lortel Nominated), Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Teatro Circulo), My Old Man (Dixon Place), Storm Still (DirectorFest, Drama League), La Cage Aux Folles (Barrington Stage Company).
Film and TV:Senior Escort Service, Blunderpuss, It’s Very Common, TOW.
TV: Bull, New Amsterdam.
BFA, The University Of The Arts
Ig @draebiz and @tellqueerz
Carolyn Connolly is a blue collar jill of all trades. Sex educator, poet, mountain climber and Carpenter. Carolyn came out in 1989 in blue collar Brooklyn. Carolyn has spoken across the US and Canada on queer/trans, anti racist and US foreign policy. She has been quoted in the New York Times, GQ, The Wall Street Journal The Advocate on our backs and the book whipping girl. Carolyn has performed in the HERE theater series New York and radar Productions in the Bay Area.
A born Michigander, Emilio Garcia has spent the last four years pursuing the arts in New York City. With a fresh degree from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a proclivity for poetry and a love for history, Emilio is thrilled to find himself where he is today.
A mostly Hudson Valley and very often Brooklyn based theater artist, puppet maker and art therapist, Glenn Marla‘s performance work focuses on themes of body liberation, gender, queerness, fat, and shifting cycles of trauma. Glenn sun and moon are in aquarius with leo rising.
Swetha Regunathan is a writer and filmmaker based in NYC. Her work has screened at festivals internationally, including Aspen Shortsfest, Nitehawk Shorts Festival, True/False Film Festival, Tribeca, New Orleans Film Festival, and on platforms like NOWNESS, NoBudge, and Short of the Week. She produced the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Between Earth & Sky (2023) and is currently developing her debut feature-length film. She has also had writing published in Huffington Post, n+1, Guernica, and other outlets. Starting Fall 2025 she will be Assistant Professor in the Visual Studies program at Haverford College.