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 March is Luck, featuring storytellers Tanya Marquardt and Kei Williams.
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 Campbellis 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
Tanya Marquardt is a writer and performer in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn. Their book Stray: Memoir of a Runaway was named a Best Queer & History Bio by The Advocate and Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep, Tanya’s play about being a sleep talker, toured internationally and inspired an NPR Invisibila. This year they will publish a piece on The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Feminist Press, and write about recconecting with Magyar queer archives and folkdance in upcoming anthology Do Trans People Dream of Electric Sheep; their play HOUSE, a transfeminist retelling of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is in development.
Born in Upstate NY, Kei Williams (they/them) is a queer transmasculine organizer, artist, and historian. Kei currently serves as NEW Pride Agenda’s Interim Executive Director. In 2021, Kei was selected as a Community Fellow through the Mellon Initiative for Emerging Scholars at The New School, where they co-teach a Media Theory course, and was honored with the Black Voices for Black Justice Award (2022) as a leader in the fight for racial and gender justice.
As a founding member of Black Lives Matter NYC and part of Movement Netlab, Kei has helped to shape powerful campaigns and developed practical tools to scale up movements grounded in abolition, democracy, and love. Kei joined Black Gotham Experience in November 2016, a visual storytelling project elevating the impact of the African Diaspora by remembering together through walks, talks, and artistic commissions. Their work has been featured at The Shed, Lincoln Center, New Museum, and the NYC Landmarks Department.
Outside of work and walking, Kei is a homebody, kept company by their dog Spartacus and their dozen inherited plants. Follow Kei at @blackboikei on Twitter and IG.