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
What if.... (Transgender Awareness Week)
TW: SA, Suicide, Addiction, Transphobia, Homophobia, Spiritual Trauma
What if
What if my father painted my fingernails when I was 4 ...
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When you protect trans youth you embrace the full image of God
When you protect trans youth you talk about a black trans woman, trans person from Ethiopia or a little boy who loved to wear “a princess dress” both of which were powerful messengers of God, for God.
When you protect trans youth - you have queer and trans people light a candle, say a prayer, lead a bible study or preach from the pulpit.
When you protect trans youth you vote for access to gender affirming care in all it forms
When you protect trans youth you read children's book and sing songs that mention us
When you protect trans youth, you talk about our existence so we know we are not alone and that we too are children of God
- written by Bonnie Violet Quintana, a queer chaplain in May 2022 for a drag eucharist
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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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