🎉 Bonus Episode Drop! 🎉 While we gear up for Season 20 of The Queer Family Podcast , we're sharing this powerful conversation Jaimie had as a guest on the No Guilt Mom podcast! We talked all things queer family building, parenting with purpose, standing up (loudly) for what’s right—and yes, even voiceover work and musical theater. Enjoy this bonus episode while you wait for what's coming next! Upstanders vs. Bystanders: Embracing Allyship for LGBTQ Families Everywhere with Jaimie Kelton What d...
Jul 21, 2025•39 min•Season 19Ep. 11
🎉 Bonus Episode Drop! 🎉 While Jaimie gears up for Season 20 of The Queer Family Podcast—launching this August!—she's sharing this bonus episode from her recent guest appearance on the No One Told Us podcast. It’s a beautiful conversation about queer parenting, representation, and the honest, hilarious chaos of raising kids while gay. Enjoy this sneak peek into what’s to come next season! Episode 92: Celebrating Queer Families & Normalizing Representation with Jaimie from the Queer Family P...
Jul 14, 2025•39 min•Season 19Ep. 10
Haven and Koy's journey to parenthood included IVF, IUIs, anonymous and known donors, multiple moves, and ultimately foster care—where they met and adopted their 6-year-old son, River. In this final episode of our Pride Extravaganza, they open up to our host, Jaimie Kelton, about what it’s really like navigating foster-to-adopt as queer parents, how loss and resilience shaped their parenting journey, and how all of it inspired a new film. Oh—and did we mention River is the star of that film? Thi...
Jun 30, 2025•49 min•Season 19Ep. 9
Can cis men be lactation consultants? Can trans folks chestfeed ? Can someone who had top surgery still make milk? YES, YES, and YES. In this eye-opening Pride Extravaganza episode, Jaimie sits down with Jacob Engelsman , a cisgender queer man, lactation consultant, and author of Lactation for the Rest of Us , a groundbreaking guide designed specifically for queer and trans families. Together, they dive into all the whos, whys, and hows of induced lactation—debunking myths and expanding the conv...
Jun 26, 2025•48 min•Season 19Ep. 8
Jaimie and her wife Anne share a heartfelt update on Anne's breast cancer journey, including the challenges of chemotherapy, unexpected back surgery, and the support from their community. They discuss upcoming medical procedures and the emotional toll of their experiences. Photographer Suzanne Fiore joins the conversation to offer discounted sessions for queer families, highlighting the importance of capturing family moments. Listeners are encouraged to celebrate and document their families, emp...
Jun 23, 2025•27 min•Season 18Ep. 7
Peggy Gillespie returns to The Queer Family Podcast with even more stories, accolades, and queer advocacy badassery. Peggy Gillespie, co-founder of Family Diversity Projects and creator of Love Makes a Family and Authentic Selves , is back for our Pride Extravaganza—and she has not slowed down. Since her first appearance on the show, Peggy has been honored by Family Equality, hugged by Katie Couric, and danced her way into queer history. In this episode, host Jaimie Kelton sits down with Peggy t...
Jun 19, 2025•54 min•Season 19Ep. 6
Darra Gordon, the new CEO of Family Equality, joins host Jaimie to share her wild, beautiful, and intentional journey to queer parenthood—while simultaneously leading in LGBTQ+ advocacy. In a conversation filled with laughs, wisdom, and the occasional tween meltdown tangent, Dara opens up about trying to conceive at the same time as her wife, choosing donors (yes, plural), navigating unexpected challenges, and raising three incredible kids—including a nonbinary teen—in a world that’s not always ...
Jun 16, 2025•49 min•Season 19Ep. 5
Kyle Casey Chu (@pandadulce) is a drag performer, author, filmmaker, and one of the founding queens of Drag Story Hour—and in this powerful Pride Extravaganza episode, Kyle joins host Jaimie Kelton to talk about the art and activism that’s helping queer youth thrive. Kyle opens up about growing up in San Francisco with his autistic twin brother, coming out in middle school, and how queer joy, drag, and storytelling became his path to healing. He shares the terrifying moment when Proud Boys storm...
Jun 12, 2025•41 min•Season 19Ep. 4
Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig are husbands, dads, filmmakers—and now the creators of a new dark comedy based on their real journey to queer parenthood. In this powerful and delightfully funny Pride Extravaganza episode, they sit down with host Jaimie Kelton to share how their long, complicated path to adoption—complete with a scam, soul-searching, and spreadsheets—turned into “I Don’t Understand You,” a heartfelt horror-comedy now hitting theaters. The couple opens up about the grief, the g...
Jun 09, 2025•58 min•Season 19Ep. 3
Darren Graham (@therealdarrengraham), a single gay dad by choice and content creator, shares his beautiful and powerful journey to fatherhood. Originally from St. Vincent, Darren opens up to host Jaimie Kelton about his path through trauma, coming into his queerness, and eventually adopting his son as a solo parent. He also shares how parenting has become a space of healing and intention, and why he never "came out"—he simply confirmed who he was all along. This episode is a celebration of resil...
Jun 05, 2025•56 min•Season 19Ep. 2
It’s Pride Extravaganza, y’all! 🌈 To kick off this month-long celebration of queer family goodness, Jaimie sits down with Brian Rosenberg, longtime advocate, dad of three, and founder of Gays With Kids and GWK Academy. From navigating HIV and homophobia in the '80s to building a beautiful family through adoption and surrogacy, Brian shares his powerful story with honesty, humor, and heart. He opens up about the challenges of coming out as HIV-positive before coming out as gay, what it was like ...
Jun 02, 2025•59 min•Season 19Ep. 1
This joyful, visibility-filled throwback deserves another listen. Originally aired during our 2023 Pride Extravaganza, this episode features Brian and Alec Mazelin, a gay couple raising their daughter and showing up online as their fabulous, authentic selves. Their story of love, intentional family building, and unapologetic visibility is exactly what we need right now. 🎙️ “The more we show up, the more space we take up—and that matters.” – Brian Mazelin In a time when LGBTQIA+ families are bei...
May 26, 2025•56 min•Season 18Ep. 19
This Pride Month warm-up replay is a must-listen. Peggy Gillespie—author, queer parent, and co-director of Family Diversity Projects —has been celebrating LGBTQIA+ families and underrepresented voices for decades. In this episode (originally part of our Pride Extravaganza ), she shares how her work has helped shift hearts and minds across the country—including the very communities where our identities are under attack today. 🎙️ “A child should wear what they feel comfortable in.” – Peggy Gilles...
May 19, 2025•44 min•Season 18Ep. 18
Casey and Sarah share their beautiful, uniquely queer family-building journey—featuring a known donor (Sarah’s brother!), a nonbinary pregnancy, chestfeeding after top surgery, and building a milk-sharing network. Plus, we dive into Sarah’s breast cancer diagnosis and how their love and resilience are carrying them through. Full of heart, humor, and radical queer joy. 🌈 Through all the twists and turns, Casey and Sarah’s story is a powerful reminder: queer families show up for each other, throu...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 15Ep. 15
Kim and Katie walk us through their ultra-intentional path to queer family building: from meeting online and moving in together lesbian-fast, to getting certified as foster parents just in case, to navigating a heartbreaking late miscarriage after IUI in a clinic, to finding success through home insemination—and thawing donor sperm under a boob. As we dive deeper, the episode unpacks the layered complexities of queer family building. The couple reflects on the fear and beauty of non-biological p...
Apr 21, 2025•54 min•Season 16Ep. 14
What happens when your best friend offers to help you make a baby? Jaimie sits down with Kait and Sophie—two queer folks trying to build their family—and their longtime friend (and now known donor!) Oliver. Together, they open up about the winding road that led them to one another, how a heartfelt email changed everything, and the love, planning, and community it takes to make a family—queer style. This is not your average family-building journey. From navigating fibroids and reciprocal IVF to c...
Apr 14, 2025•53 min•Season 15Ep. 13
Two mamas. Two wombs. One donor. In this episode, Ana and Becky share their epic journey of building a family through simultaneous reciprocal IVF —yes, they were both pregnant at the same time. From pandemic sperm shortages to second-parent adoption logistics, this is a deeply lesbian, wildly honest, and beautifully queer tale of love, planning, and two babies born just five weeks apart. This is a story of planning, spreadsheets, love, and so much queer resilience. Also, sperm selfies. And silk ...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 18Ep. 12
Jaimie sits down with Jacob and Riley, a T4T (trans-for-trans) couple redefining what it means to be a modern family. From co-parenting with Jacob’s platonic best friend to conceiving their son using nothing but love, timing, and a little queer magic (yes, really!), this episode is a beautiful, affirming deep-dive into queer love, chosen family, and intentional parenthood. They open up about stopping hormones to conceive, the emotional journey of pregnancy as a trans man, and how gender identity...
Mar 31, 2025•55 min•Season 15Ep. 8
Jaimie sits down with Liam—a Scottish-born, England-based gay dad—who shares the winding road he and his husband took to adopt their daughter through the UK’s foster-to-adopt system. From intense evaluations to surprise newborn pick-up calls, this story is filled with love, bureaucracy, and a whole lot of intention. You’ll hear how growing up under Section 28 shaped Liam’s identity, how he and his husband made the decision to adopt, and why they ultimately said yes to early permanence—despite th...
Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 18Ep. 10
Caitlyn , one half of @ 2ladiesand2babies on social media joins Jaimie to talk all things queer parenting, social media, and the ongoing fight for LGBTQIA+ visibility. From hilarious parenting fails to the not-so-funny rise of online hate, they dive into how social media has shifted for queer creators in today's political climate. They also discuss second-parent adoption, why legal protection is a must for LGBTQ+ families, and how to handle the trolls that come with being openly queer online. Th...
Mar 17, 2025•53 min•Season 18Ep. 9
Marie Newman isn’t just an advocate—she’s a fighter. As a former Congresswoman from Illinois, she took on big fights for LGBTQ+ rights, healthcare equity, gun reform, and more . But her mission became personal when her daughter came out as transgender, propelling her even deeper into the fight for equality. In this episode, Marie shares her unexpected path to Congress , the struggles of passing meaningful legislation, and why she refuses to back down—even as anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric ramps up across ...
Mar 10, 2025•54 min•Season 18Ep. 8
Heather grew up in the Bible Belt as the daughter of a gay man and a pastor’s granddaughter, suppressing her truth for years. She married a man, started a family, and did everything ‘right’—until, at 38, she realized she was a lesbian… while on a literal therapy call in the closet. Now, she’s untangling decades of religious trauma, reclaiming her identity, and proving that it’s never too late to live your truth. 🏳️🌈 Thanks to our sponsor California Cryobank ! Thinking of growing your queer fa...
Mar 03, 2025•53 min•Season 18Ep. 7
Jaimie sits down with gender diversity expert Rachel Hulstein-Lowe to talk about raising transgender and non-binary kids in today’s political climate. Rachel, a parent of a non-binary child, shares insights on the impact of anti-trans legislation, generational shifts in understanding gender, and how parents can advocate for their kids. She also opens up about her own family’s history—her father came out in the Midwest during the AIDS crisis—and how the stigma against gay people then mirrors toda...
Feb 24, 2025•53 min•Season 18Ep. 6
As the U.S. ramps up its attacks on LGBTQIA+ rights, it’s hard not to see the parallels with Italy and other conservative countries tightening their grip on queer families. The Queer Family Podcast dives into this reality with Giuseppe, a single gay dad who built his family through surrogacy in the U.S.—something he could never have done in his home country of Italy, where surrogacy and adoption for queer parents are outright banned. Despite these barriers, Giuseppe persevered, proving once agai...
Feb 17, 2025•53 min•Season 18Ep. 5
Jaimie shares a heartwarming conversation with Sophie and Agnese from London, showcasing the resilience and adaptability of queer families. They detail navigating the NHS fertility system, selecting a sperm donor, and the emotional challenges faced during the process, including a sperm shipment fiasco, a miscarriage, and a couple of womb switches along the way. Through perseverance and adaptability, their journey ultimately leads to a successful pregnancy. Tune in for an inspiring testament to l...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 18Ep. 4
Jaimie sits down with Caitlin, a lesbian mom who, alongside her wife Ashley, spent six years navigating the path to parenthood with a known donor. They dive into the complexities of donor relationships, legal agreements, and the unexpected yet beautiful involvement of the donor’s parents as paternal grandparents. Caitlin shares her experiences with different insemination methods, medical challenges, and the profound joy of growing their family. This episode offers an honest and insightful look a...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 18Ep. 3
Jaimie welcomes Sarah and Tamara to discuss their journey as queer moms and grandmothers, exploring the complexities of known donor conception, non-biological parenting, and how gender norms influence body image. Sarah shares her personal experience with the BRCA gene and the emotional journey of breast removal, offering diverse perspectives on body identity and self-expression. Together, they emphasize the importance of open conversations about gender and representation. The episode also highli...
Jan 27, 2025•53 min•Season 18Ep. 2
Jaimie interviews Elle Moxley, founder of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, to discuss the ongoing fight for gender-affirming care and trans rights amidst political regressions. With a new administration coming into the White House, this timely conversation underscores the urgent need for community support, visibility, and action in combating hate and protecting transgender individuals. Elle shares insights on fostering collaborative solidarity and provides valuable resources for building stronge...
Jan 20, 2025•59 min•Season 18Ep. 1
Replay Alert: Originally Aired 2023 Jaimie and guest co-host Tom dive into the complexities of known donor dynamics in queer parenting, featuring insights from guests Marea and Ray, midwives sharing their personal journeys. Explore the intricacies of donor selection, legal agreements, and family integration. Marea and Ray discuss their unique conception stories and how supportive community structures like midwifery can enhance the childbirth and postpartum experience. Discover how their shared e...
Jan 06, 2025•56 min•Season 17Ep. 23
Replay Alert: Originally Aired 2020 This episode first aired in 2020, back when the show was called If These Ovaries Could Talk, co-hosted with Jaimie’s co-founder, Robin Hopkins . With the new changes coming to government, Gena Jaffe’s work with Connecting Rainbows is more important than ever. In this episode, Gena shares her journey using reciprocal IVF to create her family and how that experience inspired her to found Connecting Rainbows. Her organization helps LGBTQ folks navigate starting, ...
Dec 30, 2024•52 min•Season 17Ep. 22
