Queerly Beloved

Wil Fisher
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Join your host, Wil Fisher (AKA "I Am Sylvia Wil Gather Rainbow"), for playful and profound interviews with amazing LGBTQIA+ peeps working in the field of spirituality and personal growth. Wil is a life coach, spiritual healer, and drag queen who loves getting super wu and chatting with fascinating folx about all things spiritually queer and queerly spiritual. You'll love hearing guests' spiritual path stories and gain knowledge as they share discoveries, insights and wisdom. Plus, these interviews tend to be a lot of fun- so expect to have some of that as well...! 

  1. 5 days ago

    Who’s Holding the Phone: You or Your Parts?

    Send us Fan Mail What if the things that hook you on your phone could actually teach you something about yourself? In this solo episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil shares insights from a recent intentional MDMA journey that led him into a deeper exploration of his relationship with technology, emotions, and different “parts” of himself. Through Internal Family Systems (IFS)–inspired parts work, Wil meets Ping Pong, a busy-body, stimulation-seeking part that wants him to experience everything life has to offer while also protecting him from difficult emotions. As well as Shy, a part that fears what might happen if Wil becomes too visible, successful, connected, or happy. As these parts begin to soften, a bigger realization emerges: the algorithms on our phones may be especially good at identifying—and hooking—the vulnerable parts of ourselves. What if the reels that trigger our envy, FOMO, desire, insecurity, outrage, or need for validation aren't just distractions? What if they can also become trailheads—opportunities to get curious about what is happening inside us? In this episode, Wil explores: How parts work can help us relate to ourselves with more curiosity and compassionThe connection between busyness, stimulation, and avoiding difficult emotionsWhy reaching for our phones can sometimes be an emotional protection strategyHow social media algorithms can hook and feed different parts of ourselvesCreating greater sovereignty and intentionality in our relationship with technologyAllowing sadness, anger, and fear to actually move through the bodyThe unexpected freedom that can come from realizing we don't have to fill every momentFour messages Wil has been carrying since the journey:It is safe to be here. It is safe to feel. It is safe to shine. It is safe to connect. This episode also offers a personal prelude to Wil's upcoming conversation with Shannon Algeo, author of The Power in Your Hands, exploring our individual and collective relationship with smartphones and technology. The next time you find yourself compulsively reaching for your phone or getting hooked by something in your feed, consider pausing before judging yourself. What part of you is getting hooked? What is it looking for? What might it be protecting you from? And what does it actually need? A note about this episode: Wil shares personal experiences with psychedelic medicines and altered states of consciousness. This conversation is offered for educational and personal-reflection purposes only and is not medical, psychological, or legal advice, nor is it intended to encourage anyone to engage in illegal activity. Learn more about Wil and his work here- https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/ Support the show

  2. 22 Jul

    Letting Things Be Exactly as They Are with Rev. Yolanda

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil is joined by Rev. Yolanda Mapes, a trans femme genderqueer actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, and interfaith minister. Yolanda is currently working on her tenth studio album and recently released the singles “Did Ya Know” and “Sparkle.” She also guest-starred in episode six of Ryan Murphy’s television series The Beauty. Yolanda shares her journey of gender expression, spirituality, and artistic self-discovery from growing up as a feminine child in Alabama to finding freedom and affirmation within the Radical Faerie community. She reflects on the limitations of binary gender and the importance of creating enough safety for each person’s unique expression to emerge. The conversation moves into Yolanda’s longtime practice of A Course in Miracles and its teachings about forgiveness, ego, nonattachment, and remembering who we truly are. Yolanda also speaks movingly about her relationship with her late husband and soulmate, Rev. Glen Ganaway. His unconditional love helped her feel at home in herself, and their shared spiritual practice became a foundation of their life together. After Glen’s sudden death, Yolanda experienced a profound shattering that eventually opened into what she describes as a second awakening. She shares how grief, spiritual community, and experiences of Glen’s continued presence have deepened her trust in the eternal nature of love—including an extraordinary experience while filming her role in The Beauty around the first anniversary of his passing. Together, they explore:  Growing up gender-nonconforming in Alabama before language for trans and nonbinary identities was widely available  Finding affirmation, freedom, and possibility through the Radical Faeries  How unconditional love can create safety for our authentic identity to emerge  Moving beyond binary gender and releasing judgments that block connection  Building bridges of compassion through music, performance, drag, and ministry  Using A Course in Miracles to recognize ego-based thoughts and return to love  What it means to be sustained by the love of God  Grief as a second spiritual awakening  Trusting the ongoing connection between souls beyond physical death  Letting things be exactly as they are instead of resisting life’s natural changes This soulful conversation invites us to welcome every moment—whether it contains grief, fear, anger, joy, or infinite love—as part of our healing and spiritual unfolding. Connect with Rev. Yolanda Website, music, and upcoming offeringsYolanda’s Louise Hay-inspired affirmationsLearn more about A Course in MiraclesConnect with Wil WebsiteInstagramYouTubeSupport the show

    Letting Things Be Exactly as They Are with Rev. Yolanda

  3. 1 Jul

    Hedwig, Wholeness & Queer Magic with John Cameron Mitchell

    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, and created the podcast series Anthem: Homunculus and Cancellation Island. In this rich, funny, provocative, and deeply human conversation, John shares reflections on the 25th anniversary of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the ways this beloved story continues to offer queer people a sense of complexity, liberation, and hope. He and Wil explore Hedwig not simply as a story about trauma, patriarchy, identity, survival, and the longing to become whole. John also speaks about his relationship with Catholicism, ritual, queer spirituality, and the way queer people often learn early how to live inside nuance and contradiction. Together, explore humor as a queer survival tool, the limits of labels, the Radical Faerie community, psychedelics, dancing as medicine, AI, punk, and the sacred importance of staying human in a time of fear and disconnection. They also discuss: John’s first remembered role as the Virgin Mary at a boys’ boarding school in ScotlandCatholicism, ritual, theater, and queer complexityThe danger of reducing people to labels or stereotypesRadical Faeries, Harry Hay, queer magic, and non-corporate expressions of queernessThe difference between substances that expand connection and substances that deepen isolationAI, creativity, heartbreak, and why human art still mattersPunk as kindness, courage, DIY action, and real-life connectionThe importance of feeling fully instead of letting fear shut us downThis conversation is a beautiful reminder that queer wisdom is often found in the in-between places, in humor, contradiction, grief, glitter, resistance, ritual, and the courage to keep becoming. John Cameron Mitchell on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/johncameronmitchell/?hl=en Learn more about Hedwig 25 here: https://www.hedwig25.com/ Learn more about Wil Fisher and his work here: https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/ Please subscribe to Queerly Beloved and leave a review if this episode moved you! 🙏 Support the show

    Hedwig, Wholeness & Queer Magic with John Cameron Mitchell

  4. 17 Jun

    Queer Love is the Medicine the World Needs Now (Encore Episode)

    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," featured in the upcoming queer anthology Spirits Queer, Spirits True. Wil explores queer love as a sacred, rebellious, and deeply healing force. Through poetic reflection and bold truth-telling, he invites listeners into a space of radical inclusion, where love transcends binaries, borders, and outdated beliefs. This episode dives into: - What makes queer love so powerfully unique.  - The societal barriers that get in the way of fully embodying it.  - How rituals, community, and self-acceptance help us access queer love’s full magic.  - Why this kind of love might just be the medicine our world is craving right now. Enjoy this episode as a celebration of Pride Month in the form of a living prayer.  Mentioned in this episode: 📖 Spirits Queer, Spirits True – Coming soon! Stay tuned for release info. Connect with Wil: 🌐 www.wil-fullyliving.com 📸 Instagram: @wilfish99 Support the show

  5. 28 May

    Queering Plant Medicine with Tina Kat Courtney

    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 to understand this work as a calling, and why creating safer, more affirming medicine spaces for queer and trans people matters so much. Together, we explore plant spirits, queer healing, authenticity, ego death, actual death, integration, and the power of learning to trust the ride. Kat also offers beautiful reflections on nature as a teacher of fluidity and diversity, and why the medicine often invites us to become more fully, audaciously ourselves. In this episode, we explore: How ayahuasca first came into Kat’s life more than 20 years agoWhat it means to be called into relationship with plant spiritsWhy queer and trans people need safer, more affirming medicine spacesNature as a reflection of queerness, fluidity, and authenticityThe healing power of being loved exactly as we areEgo death, death, rebirth, and unity consciousnessWhy bigger doses are not always betterSovereignty, sensitivity, and self-trust in medicine spacesIntegration as embodimentHow to let ceremony, grief, breakups, and life experiences actually change the way we liveLearn more about Kat and her work: Plant Medicine People: www.plantmedicinepeople.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plantmedicinepeople/ Connect with Wil: Learn about the retreat in Costa Rica- https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/awakened-hearts-nye Website: https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wilfish99/ Support the show

    Queering Plant Medicine with Tina Kat Courtney

  6. 13 May

    Helping Spirits, Ancestors, and Queer Medicine with Langston Kahn

    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 traditions of the African diaspora, and deep relationship with helping spirits and ancestors. In our conversation, we explore Langston’s origin story and the early spiritual experiences that helped shape his path. We talk about helping spirits, ancestral healing, and what it means to remember that support from the unseen world may already be reaching toward us. We also dive into shamanism, what that word means, and how to approach this kind of spiritual work with integrity and discernment. Langston shares beautifully about the impact of colonialism on our relationship with ritual, ancestors, magic, community, and the sacred, and how healing may involve reclaiming ways of being that have been severed or forgotten. This is a rich, mystical, grounded, and deeply nourishing conversation about spirit, lineage, queerness, healing, and what it means to become resilient, creative, and courageous enough to bring healing into a fractured culture. Connect with Langston Kahn:  https://langstonkahn.com/ Learn more about Wil here: https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/ Support the show

    Helping Spirits, Ancestors, and Queer Medicine with Langston Kahn

  7. 30 Apr

    ALIVENESS with Aya in Costa Rica (Solo Episode)

    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. What unfolded was a deep remembering: that aliveness is not just joy or happiness, but the willingness to feel the full range of human emotion like grief, gratitude, desire, tenderness, fear, sensuality, wonder, and everything in between. Wil explores how the jungle itself became part of the medicine: the river, the organic meals, the nourishing conversations, the singing, the dancing, the screen-free spaciousness, and the daily ritual of swimming naked in the cold flowing water of the Tulärí River. This episode is an invitation to examine where we may be numbing out, where we may have turned down the volume on our own lives, and what it means to return to the body, the heart, and the sacred experience of being fully here. This episode is for anyone who has been feeling numb, disconnected, overwhelmed, or like they are watching their life instead of fully living it. May it serve as a reminder that your aliveness is already within you, waiting to be remembered. You are not here just to just get through your life.  You are here to live it. Wil will be returning to the same retreat center in Costa Rica mentioned here to host an Awakened Hearts New Year’s Eve Retreat: A Jungle Journey into Connection, Authenticity and Aliveness. This 7-day retreat will be an intimate gathering for GBTQ men to reconnect with their hearts, release old stories and patterns, and step into more authentic and alive ways of being, while being surrounded by the beauty of the Costa Rican jungle. To learn more, visit: https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/awakened-hearts-nye Support the show

  8. 16 Apr

    Sitting With What’s Real with Oneika Mays

    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 beyond. She is also faculty at Embodied Philosophy/Yoga International, has been featured on SiriusXM and numerous podcasts, and is the author of the debut book Sit With Me: A No-BS Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation. Her work brings mindfulness down to earth, offering a practice that is honest, compassionate, embodied, and rooted in real life. In our conversation, we explore a wide range of rich and meaningful topics, ranging from working with inmates to the social dynamics in The Traitors. We also explore dream work as spiritual practice, loving-kindness, creating safety inside ourselves, the art of compassionate nonattachment and other juicy topics! This is a grounded, soulful, and very human conversation about what it means to stay present, care deeply, and keep coming back to ourselves. Connect with Oneika Mays: https://www.oneikamays.com/about-5 Get her book: Sit With Me: A No-BS Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation Learn more about Wil here- https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/ Check out the Awakened Hearts retreat here- https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/singles Support the show

    Sitting With What’s Real with Oneika Mays
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Join your host, Wil Fisher (AKA "I Am Sylvia Wil Gather Rainbow"), for playful and profound interviews with amazing LGBTQIA+ peeps working in the field of spirituality and personal growth. Wil is a life coach, spiritual healer, and drag queen who loves getting super wu and chatting with fascinating folx about all things spiritually queer and queerly spiritual. You'll love hearing guests' spiritual path stories and gain knowledge as they share discoveries, insights and wisdom. Plus, these interviews tend to be a lot of fun- so expect to have some of that as well...! 

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  • Creator
    Wil Fisher
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    93
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Queerly Beloved
  • Show Website
    Queerly Beloved

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