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
🌐 Drag While Sober Panel at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022
Sunday Oct 9 at 11am-12pm CST at Center On Halsted
Drag While Sober
PANELIST : Angel aka Linda Summers
Ambassador
San Francisco, CA
(she/they)
Angel, AKA Linda Summers is a gay and queer drag performer in San Francisco who embraces beauty, glamour and principles. As a former Disciple of Christ, Linda now uses her platform to spread the message of love, empowerment and resurrection through the art of drag. Being a first generation Guatemalan means showing her family that drag is valid and nothing to be ashamed of.
PANELIST :
Sue Trowtower is a drag Queen from San Francisco. She performs regularly at the Monster Show, and also for The Mascara Show - SF’s sobriety-focused drag show that benefits the Castro Country Club. She is Miss Castro Country Club XII and loves to support organizations like the SF Ducal Court and uses drag to help raise money for local LGBTQ+ non-profits.
PANELIST : Imani is originally from Virginia where her came to be. Her original name was Imani Dominique St. James. It started her in her career of drag performing and having fun. When the alcohol and drugs specifically crystal meth got added into the mix all the fun stopped. When she decided to change her life and accept the gift of recovery she also changed her name to Imani Recoverai which means Faith in Recovery. Now as the reigning Miss Serenity 2021, Imani shares the joy she lives at every opportunity in the sober community because now she really lives life to the fullest. This is her second time in recovery and her recovery date is November 1, 2016. For That She Is Grateful!
https://www.dragandspirituality.com
#drag #sober #dragandspiritualitysummit
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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