Queerly Beloved

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil Fisher (aka. Sylvia Wil Gather Rainbor) sits down with the legendary John Cameron Mitchell, the actor, writer, director, singer, and cultural icon best known for creating, directing, and starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. John also wrote and directed Shortbus, directed Rabbit Hole, co-wrote and directed How to Talk to Girls at Parties, a...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is an encore/ re-release from the Queerly Beloved archives. Whether you’re hearing it for the first time or returning to it with fresh ears, we hope it meets you in exactly the way you need. 🤗 In this special Pride Month solo episode, Wil Fisher honors Pride by reading his Queer Manifesto essay titled, "Queer Love is the Medicine the World Needs Now," fe...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved , Wil is joined by Tina “Kat” Courtney, a plant medicine pioneer, author, traditionally trained Ayahuasquera, psychedelic integration coach, and CEO and Co-Founder of Plant Medicine People. Kat has spent two decades in deep relationship with plant medicines, and in this conversation, she shares how ayahuasca first came into her life, how she came...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved , Wil is joined by Langston Kahn, a Black, queer teacher and shamanic practitioner whose work focuses on radical human transformation, ancestral healing, and restoring an authentic relationship with our emotions. Langston’s work lives at a powerful crossroads, weaving together somatic practice, contemporary shamanic traditions, initiations into t...

Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode of Queerly Beloved , Wil shares reflections from a recent journey to Costa Rica, where he sat with Grandmother Ayahuasca and received powerful teachings about aliveness. After moving through a season of heaviness, collective grief, personal transition, and emotional numbness, Wil felt called back to the jungle through a series of signs and synchronicities. Wha...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved , Wil is joined by Oneika Mays , a mindfulness teacher, yoga teacher, licensed massage therapist, and author whose work is devoted to making contemplative practice more accessible to communities that have too often been left out of mainstream wellness spaces. Oneika has taught at Rikers Island, Kripalu, the Omega Institute, Lincoln Center, and be...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved , Wil sits down with Maria Martinez, a Cosmic Weaver, Quantum Alchemist, and multidimensional healer who has been aware of the unseen realms since childhood. Coming from a lineage of shamans, Maria describes a life shaped by early encounters with spirits, relationships with guides and higher selves, and a deep connection to divine intelligence ac...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil Fisher sits down with Simon Magnus, a facilitator, teacher, and creator who has spent the last 25 years blending movement, intimacy work, conscious kink, ecstatic dance, somatic practice, and theatre into powerful, playful, and transformational experiences. Simon creates bold yet safe spaces where connection thrives—inviting people to drop performance, meet ho...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil Fisher sits down with Annie Schuessler-Zam, a trauma healer who uses Brainspotting and Parts Work to help people release stuck emotional pain. Annie was a licensed psychotherapist for 20 years and now works outside of the medical model. She also runs workshops for folks who are estranged from a parent and want to create their most beautiful and meaningful live...

Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode, Wil Fisher explores the energetic invitation of the Year of the Fire Horse and what it’s calling forward—especially for the Achiever-Performer archetype in gay culture: the successful, polished man who looks like he’s thriving… but feels a quiet ache underneath. This is a conversation about moving from performance to presence , from being admired to being kno...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil Fisher sits down with Ash Ryzen Witham, a queer, nonbinary trauma-informed Somatic Coach and Connection & Embodiment Facilitator. Ash supports personal and collective transformation by guiding people into deeper connection with themselves, each other, and life itself through somatic wisdom, embodied and authentic relating practices, and movement + expressi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil Fisher sits down with Brian G. Murphy, an activist, educator, and certified relationship coach. Brian is the co-founder of QueerTheology.com (a resource hub, podcast, and online community exploring how queerness and spirituality enrich one another) and the founder of Relationshift, a coaching practice supporting LGBTQ+ and polyamorous folks in building thrivin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil sits down with Mira Funk, LCSW (she/her), a Harvard-educated queer, nonbinary psychotherapist and psychedelic guide specializing in 5-MeO-DMT, N,N-DMT, and salvia divinorum. Mira brings a rare “neuroscience geek meets sacred mystery” approach to psychedelic healing and integration—bridging somatic work, nondual spirituality, and practical trauma-informed care....

Send us Fan Mail In this first solo episode of the season, Wil explores discernment- the skill of knowing what’s inner truth and what’s conditioned noise, so you can choose from your center. Using the metaphor of an “inner committee” (intuition, wisdom, higher guidance… plus anxiety, ego, craving, people-pleasing, and trauma responses), Wil breaks down how different inner voices sound, feel, and m...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil is joined by Beth Weinstein, a Spiritual Business Coach & Soul Liberation Guide, three-time entrepreneur, certified Master Transformational NLP practitioner, and a leading voice in soul-led business and psychedelic-assisted transformation. Beth has guided hundreds of visionary leaders, changemakers, and psychedelic pioneers to step into...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved , Wil kicks off Season 4 and episode 76 with a tarot reading for collective for this new season of the podcast, and for this new season of your life. Wil is joined by Graham Joseph Norton , an integrative psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, author, founder of Celtic Tarot Therapy , and host of the Bears, Tea & Tarot podcast. Graham’s work ble...

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of season three of Queerly Beloved , I drop in with Yaron “Dashboard” Schweizer: a community weaver, theatre maker, and director of Chinkapin Craftstead. From kibbutz days to the Eggplant Faerie Players to a hand-built, off-grid life in rural Tennessee, Dashboard has been practicing the art of community living for decades. We start with a conversation about t...

Send us Fan Mail In this SUPER wu episode of Queerly Beloved , Wil sits down with A’sha Love, a multidimensional guide, speaker, and author who supports healers, empaths, and visionaries in aligning more deeply with their soul’s essence. Her journey began in 2008 after the passing of her father sparked a profound metaphysical awakening, leading her from mediumship and channeling into her current w...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil Fisher sits down with Joel Collier, an energy-intuitive practitioner and multi-media artist (8 years as lead vocals for synth-pop duo DOLL MUSCLE), who’s now studying sustainability with a focus on home construction and permaculture. Together, we explore practical intuition, the chakra map, and how color, sound, and simple rituals can support daily life. Toget...

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when your heart longs for something and it just hasn’t arrived yet? In this episode of Queerly Beloved , I share a personal story about calling in my romantic partner and the long, sometimes painful stretch of waiting it took before he appeared. Along the way, I discovered that the “in-between” is not wasted time, it’s a crucible, a sacred space where we are stretch...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved , Wil sits down with Julian Crosson-Hill, a spiritual life & business coach, human design coach, and speaker whose superpower is helping people get visible and live authentically. Julian works with gay men over 50 to overcome the challenges of aging in a youth-obsessed culture, and with spiritual entrepreneurs navigating visibility in an indu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved , I’m joined by the luminous and liberatory Rev. Karmen Michael Smith- a Black queer theologian, cultural strategist, and author of Holy Queer: The Coming Out of Christ . As the creator of Prophetic Intelligence™ and the founder of the inclusive digital faith community Poor Culture, Karmen’s work lives at the sacred intersection of queerness, spi...

Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode, I'm exploring my realtionship with enoughness and sharing some of the learnings this exploration has brought me so far. We look at it from multiple angles indluing from the material (“Do I have enough?”); the relational (“Are others enough for me?”), to the internal (“Am I enough?”). I also dive into the learnings and insights I had about enoughness duri...

Send us Fan Mail In this soulful episode, Wil Fisher is joined by Bodhi Calagna, a psychedelic guide, hypnotherapist, sound alchemist, and musical artist based in Boulder, Colorado. Known for their ecstatic tribal beats as CALAGNA and ceremonial soundscapes as bodē , Bodhi shares how they’ve woven music, plant medicine, and spiritual presence into a powerful practice of healing and transformation....

Send us Fan Mail In this soulful and thought-provoking episode of Queerly Beloved , Wil Fisher sits down with literary Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West . Gregory Maguire—author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West . Gregory also happens to identify as both gay and Catholic, and brings a deep well of wisdom around faith,...