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
👑 GOD in Drag - an interview with a queer chaplain - Bonnie Violet
For me, I have always had the sense that the transgender soul and the art of drag naturally open us up to the highest levels of Spirituality.
Ram Dass once famously said, "Treat everyone like GOD in drag." This speaks to me as to how we are all living as slight representations of who we truly are.
What could we be if we weren't afraid to be authentic and open to modalities that "polite society" frowns upon.
On today's show Pete interviews Bonnie Violet who runs the "A Queer Chaplain" show here on YouTube. We explore the art of drag, spirituality, and the connection for the transgender with the Divine.
You can connect with Bonnie and support her at the link below:
https://taplink.cc/aqueerchaplain
Audio was pulled from an interview with Thank God. I am Queer
https://youtu.be/V9I1xHMifz4
Photo from Queer Americana photographed by The Third and Only
https://www.instagram.com/the_third_and_only
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.
🌐 https://linktr.ee/aqueerchaplain
a queer chaplain will guide you in tending to spiritual wounds, to transform hurt into healing
🎙 Splintered Grace
A conservative christian woman & a trans genderqueer drag queen have an anti-cancel culture convo.
🎙 At the CCC
There are no outside issues. Our intention is to inspire better space for more people in recovery.
🎙 Drag & Spirituality
45 Drag Artists talk about their drag & spirituality hosted by Bonnie Violet
🎙 cut & uncut
a trans podcasted hosted by Daphne & Bonnie Violet where we discuss everything trans.
🎙 tranSpirit
Bonnie Violet guides each guest through their trans narrative lacing it with a spiritual thread.
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