TELL is a monthly queer storytelling show hosted and curated by Drae Campbell. It is the longest running event at BGSQD. 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.

RACHEL LEVITSKY came out as a Lesbian in 1984 and as a poet in 1994. She-they is the author of The Story of My Accident Is Ours, Under the Sun (Futurepoem, 2013 & 2003) NEIGHBOR (UDP, 2009, reissue 2020), Against Travel : Anti Voyage (Pamenar, with Pascal Poyet, 2020) and several other small press editions. In 1999, she-they founded the feminist avant-garde network Belladonna Series, and is a member of Belladonna* Collaborative, a non-hierarchical and variously organized collective making objects, thoughts, actions, events. Levitsky is a professor at Pratt Institute and lives in Woodstock, NY. She’s currently at work on a memoir without memory called Rachel Levitsky Has No Problems. 

Jonté Jaurel Culpepper is a graduate from the University of New Mexico with his BA in Contemporary Dance and Minor in Vocal Performance. Some of his theatre credits include: (AC Slater) “Bayside the Musical” Off-Broadway, (Vulture/Garret Understudy) “Sirens Den” Off-Broadway, (Muscle) “Naked Boys Singing” National Tour, (Luke) “Altar Boyz”, “In The Heights” (Domingo),(Male Singer 2) “Epic Rock/Divas” Carnival Cruise Line, “Kinky Boots” (Angel/Dance Captain), “Rock Of Ages” (Joey Primo/Stacee Jaxx & Drew Understudy), “Dreamgirls” (Curtis Taylor Junior Understudy), “La Cage Aux Folles” (Bitelle). Film & TV: “Eleanor The Great” (Dante), (Final Contestant) “American Idol” Season 15, Target Pride Campaign & National Commercial. Instagram: @jontejaurel

Carly Ciarrocchi (she/her) is an Emmy-nominated host, writer, musician, and producer. She has spent most of her career in children’s media, making and hosting TV shows and podcasts with collaborators like Universal Kids, Disney+, Nick Jr, Tinkercast, Sesame Workshop and the LEGO Foundation. She’s a Moth Story Slam winner and has told tales with Generation Women, the Artichoke, The Tell, Soup and Stories and more. She teaches clown-theatre classes at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective.

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:

youtube.com/@bgsqd

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