a queer chaplain
✨ Holding space. Sharing stories. Sparkling the sacred. ✨
Hosted by Bonnie Violet Quintana — a trans femme genderqueer spiritual drag artist and digital chaplain — A Queer Chaplain podcast is where healing meets glitter, spirituality meets skepticism, and the sacred is reclaimed, one story at a time.
This podcast is a soft landing for the tender, the curious, the ex-religious, the spiritual-ish, the seekers, the creators, the joyful, the recovering, and the beautifully complicated. Each episode weaves together interviews, reflections, and spiritual drag — pulling threads from across Bonnie Violet’s work as a community organizer, podcaster, and chaplain.
Whether we’re talking about gender blessings, queer grief, trans joy, drag as ministry, or the awkward holiness of just being human — this is a space for honest conversation, healing possibilities, and connection that doesn’t require belief — just curiosity.
Expect episodes that dip into:
- ✨ Stories from LGBTQ2SIA+ folks healing from and reimagining spiritual life
- 🎭 Sacred drag performances and reflections
- 🧘♀️ Queer recovery, rituals, and rites of passage
- 🎤 Highlights from Bonnie’s many projects like Trans Joy Boise, Drag & Spirituality, Cut & Uncut, and more
- 💒 Spiritual services — from weddings to memorials to drag blessings — and the radical ways we honor each other
This is your digital sanctuary — with rhinestones
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“She’s not here to fix or convert — just to accompany, witness, and help people feel more connected and more themselves.”
🎧 Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.
👀 Watch on YouTube at @aqueerchaplain on all socials.
💌 Join the sparkle at aqueerchaplain.org
a queer chaplain
💠 Flamy Grant: Bible Belt Baby - Keynote at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022
Friday Oct 7 at 3pm CST - Center On Halsted
Flamy Grant - Bible Belt Baby
Flamy Grant (she/her or they/them) is a shame-slaying, hip-swaying heathen with Appalachian roots who now calls San Diego home. This singing/songwriting drag queen time traveled from a 90s Lilith Fair tour to the present day, bringing with her a roots-rock sound influenced by gospel and Americana. Flamy’s debut album Bible Belt Baby just dropped on September 23, and it features collaborations with Semler, Jennifer Knapp, Derek Webb, and more. Her music shines a spotlight on the queer spiritual journey, telling stories of resilience and recovery from religious trauma. With a bold lip and a big lash, Flamy is here to rewrite the rules when it comes to religious music, as her songs demand a reckoning for an industry that has for too long silenced and shut out its LGBTQ+ artists and fans. Flamy is also the founder and co-host of Heathen Podcast, a show about breaking up with bad religion.
💠 https://www.flamygrant.com
https://www.dragandspirituality.com
BIG Thank you to my Patreon members who contribute on a monthly basis to support the work of this podcast and the overall work of a queer chaplain.
To learn more about how to contribute go to patreon.com/bonnieviolet and start you monthly donation today.
For One Time contribution you can contribute via Splintered Grace
Bonnie Violet & Tina Frank
Tina, is a conservative christian woman and Bonnie Violet, a trans gender queer drag queen. While many family members are choosing to no longer speak, we have chosen to sit at the table and engage in difficult conversation to find peace and restoration.
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