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SUMMARY:TELL: A Queer Storytelling Show (MESSINESS)
DESCRIPTION:Join TELL\, The Bureau’s longest-running recurring show\, for a night of queer storytelling! \nRSVP HERE \nThis month’s Pride show’s theme is MESSINESS\, with stories from: \nHeather Glynis\n\nYifan\n\nTallie Medel\n\nDennis Yueh-Yeh Li\n\nand\nHosted and curated by Drae Campbell\n\n$10 suggested donation\n\n—\nHeather Glynis is a performer\, poet\, psychotic whore\, and tranny-about-town. She is the program assistant at the Poetry Project and hosts Queeraoke at Metropolitan Bar\, along with Bottom Behavior with Josh Bondi at Oberon. She is from Jersey\, and resides in Bushwick\n\nYifan (they/them) is a creative community builder who believes in the power of storytelling\, shared experiences\, and chosen family to bring people together. Passionate about uplifting BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices\, they create welcoming spaces where connection\, care\, and collective joy can thrive. Guided by curiosity\, empathy\, and a love of gathering people across communities\, Yifan approaches life with an open heart and a deep belief that meaningful relationships are at the center of belonging.\n\n\nTallie Medel (they/them) is an educator\, clown\, director\, and award-winning actor featured in IndieWire\, the LA Times and the Boston Globe. Screen credits include EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (A24) and BROAD CITY (Comedy Central). They founded the ever-popular clown program at Brooklyn Comedy Collective and have taught at NYU\, Harvard University\, Emerson College\, the School of Visual Arts\, and at theaters and schools across the country. Stage time includes Upright Citizens Brigade NY & LA\, Second City NY\, Caroline’s on Broadway\, MoMA PS 1\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, and London’s SoHo Theatre. They have big\, juicy eyeballs.\n\n\nOriginally from Taiwan\, Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li is a playwright-director whose work explores themes of diaspora and sexuality. Besides creating theatre works\, he also serves as Director of Performance\, Storytelling and Community at the Museum of Chinese in America where he develops programs that uplift Asian American performing artists while amplifying Asian American histories\, storytelling and visibility.\n\n\nDrae Campbell (she/they) is an actor\, comedian and storyteller who has performed in every medium. Drae was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for their work in The Nosebleed at Lincoln Center Theater. Drae’s first performance was at age 5 in a nightclub as the opening act for a punk band. Their career in theater and in gender joy started when she was cast as John Henry in The Member Of The Wedding in a local San Francisco production at age 9. Drae has a BFA in Theater from The University of the Arts and has performed in almost every medium. Drae has been hosting and curating TELL for 13 plus years\, TELL has also been made into a SILVER Signal Award winning podcast on all the platforms. @draebiz
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SUMMARY:Reading & Signing: Gareth Carter
DESCRIPTION:Join the Queer Librarian as he discusses his “over-the-top gay…sendup of the secret-agent genre” \nRSVP HERE \n\n\n\n\nGareth Carter discusses (and signs copies of) The Misadventures of Don Kee Dong & Phillip Mihol\, the first in his International Men of Mystery series at a special top secret after hours event at The Bureau. \nIn addition to signing and reading from his book\, he will discuss his journey from being called a Pornographer\, simply for stocking LGBT+ themed children’s books at his library\, to becoming novelist Gareth Carter.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/reading-signing-gareth-carter/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:IN CONVERSATION: Terrell J. A. Winder & Theo Greene
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on the value of Black Queer Placemaking in shaping belonging and community in an era of shifting gay geographies. \nRSVP HERE \n\n\n\n\nJoin Terrell J. A. Winder (Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA) and Theo Greene (Not in My Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen) for a conversation on Blackness\, Queerness\, visibility\, and their intersections. \n— \nTerrell J. A. Winder received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2017. An urban ethnographer\, Dr. Winder’s research areas include race & ethnicity\, sexuality & sexual health\, qualitative & quantitative research methods\, and education. His current research examines stigma response processes among stigmatized populations negotiating more than one stigma simultaneously. His research has been published in Qualitative Sociology\, AIDS Patient Care & STDs\, the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities\, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. His work on mobile applications as a health intervention has also been covered in the Los Angeles Times. His book\, Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA\, is a multi-method examination of anti-gay stigma response among young Black gay men in Los Angeles. \nTheo Greene is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at Bowdoin College. His research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of sexuality\, urbanism\, and culture. Greene’s research broadly explores how sexual communities help us understand how urban redevelopment shapes and redefines how individuals think about\, identify with\, and participate in local communities. His book\, Not in MY Gayborhood! Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen recently received the 2026 Outstanding Book Award in Community and Urban Sociology from the American Sociological Association. In addition to his ongoing work on gay neighborhoods and queer placemaking in Maine\, Theo is currently Chair-Elect of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and serves on several boards that support LGBTQ communities in Portland\, Maine\, including the Frannie Peabody Center and the Equality Community Center.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/in-conversation-terrell-j-a-winder-theo-greene/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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