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.”
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a queer chaplain
🌐 Spiritual Care for Drag Artists Panel at Drag & Spirituality Summit
MODERATOR : John M. Brett He/Hym/Hys AKA Rev Bené Diction
Programs - Spiritual Care, San Francisco, CA
IrReverend. High Priest of Fabulous. Poetry Fool. Connector of People & Organizations for Good. Street Chaplain. Artistic Dilettante. Host of Drag Eucharist in the streets of the Castro through hys role as Minister for San Francisco Night Ministry’s Faithful&Fabulous Program.
Panelist : Revel
"revel dreams of a world where the fullest embodiment of self is inherent. they seek to invite others to meet themselves where ever they are. as a disabled and mad massage therapist, death and grief doula, transition support coordinator, lover, world builder, super model, vulture, storyteller, medium, medicine maker, they are a continuous student of the many ancestral modalities that can bring us closer to ourselves. flux believes that leaning into multiplicity and the shifting nuance that is being is absolutely overwhelming and a deep practice of surrender and liberation. revel identifies as alive and lives from the pronouns we, they, and flux. they are Black, decedent of stolen african bodies, matrilineally italian, and decedent from white colonial settlers."
Panelist : Rev. Diana Wheeler, AKA Rev. Anita Prayer, is the Founding Magistra of the Companions of Dorothy the Worker, dedicated to accompanying & advocating for the LGBTQ+ community outside & inside the church. She’s also a member of the Third Order of the Society of Saint Francis and a deacon in the Episcopal Church, Diocese of California.
Spiritual companioning of folx who long for a connection with God and the Church but haven’t felt wanted or safe is her passion. Her joy is promoting ethical ministry in & witnessing to the church about the sacredness of the queer community.
An early childhood educator, she is the mother of 3 adult children and occasionally gigs as a clown. She’s blessed to be a saint of the motherhouse of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a member of the Ducal and Imperial Councils of San Francisco and to work with many other community groups to promote safety in our neighborhoods and raise money and awareness for small nonprofits that serve the communities she loves.
Panelist : Zoe (she/they)
Zoe is a nonbinary influencer/artist from Michigan. At 22 years old, she has set aside her pentecostal upbringing to explore all corners of life & learning. Zoe is also incredibly passionate about giving back to the community through her artistry; she found that the community is what you get after the gig and who the gig gets after you…so she views any opportunity to pour good energy into the world as a “MAJOR slay”. Zoe looks forward sharing the room with everyone in attendance and encourages everyone to wholeheartedl
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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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