TELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014.

Space is the theme of the 83rd TELL, on Saturday, December 17, 2022, 7 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Renair Amin, Gabriella Belfiglio, & MJ Moneymaker.

The event will also be live-streamed at youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers.

We will pass a bag at the start of the event. Donations by card can be made at the register or via Venmo @bgsqd with TELL 83 in the message. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL!

All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.

We ask that all attendees bring proof of vaccination and wear masks. Thank you!

Drae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet, movies and tv.  She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires, Ricochet Collective, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts, La Mama, My Old Man, Dixon Place, Oph3lia at HERE, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like  queer stories, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com

RENAIR AMIN is an award-winning educator, international speaker, coach, pageant queen, and four-time published author specializing in the areas of relationship wellness, empowerment, and LGBTQ faith-based trauma. Renair has a Master of Arts in Religious Education and Doctor of Ministry degree from New York Theological Seminary. Dr. Amin utilizes her academic journey, extensive training, and experiential wisdom to change the lives of people she encounters regionally and globally. She is also a relationship wellness expert who centers her work on helping individuals develop and reinforce self-esteem while enhancing personal and professional relationships in their lives. She began this work in 2014 through her custom Holokeria Coaching practice which has evolved into Pink Love Wellness, LLC, through which Renair provides an array of services that holistically address her client’s needs. Dr. Amin is also the founder of LGBTQ Faith Matters, a platform dedicated to healing spiritual trauma in communities of color, and the host of the “It’s All About Pink Love” Podcast. Renair believes her purpose is to heal hearts to heal the world.

Gabriella M. Belfiglio lives in Brooklyn, NY with her wife, five-year-old, and five cats. She teaches self-defense, conflict resolution, and karate. She is the winner of the W.B. Yeats Poetry Award.  She received a fellowship with Saltonstall Arts Foundation.  Her work has been published in many anthologies and journals including The Centrifugal Eye, Paterson Review, Avanti Popolo, Poetic Voices without Borders, The Potomac Review, and Lambda Literary Review.  She is part of the activist/poetry trio, The Ferlinghetti Girls. For more info visit: www.gabriellabelfiglio.info

Not a gimmick, jus’a name. MJ Moneymaker is a  Chinese-Puerto Rican American, veteran, activist, artist, writer. Storytelling through any medium, shares experience, adds to life..