Jaimie Kelton – Queer Parenting & LGBTQ Families'.
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The show all about family; but with gay! A hilarious and heartfelt dive into LGBTQ family life, parenting, and the challenges queer families face. Hosted by queer mom Jaimie Kelton, The Queer Family Podcast brings you weekly interviews with LGBTQIA+ guests exploring how they made their families and how they navigate a world that wasn’t necessarily built for them. The mission? To normalize, elevate, and celebrate queer family life—while proving we’re just like other parents... trying (and often failing) not to lose it when our kid still isn’t wearing shoes and we’re 25 minutes late. Through laughter...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Queer family stories become both practical guidance and a close view of how identity and policy shape life at home.
Jaimie Kelton keeps queer family life grounded in decisions people make at home, from setting screen limits to navigating fertility treatment, donor conception and a parent's transition.
Spoons survive a parent's transition; you get to hear why that was a child's urgent question.
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A queer family's move to Spain becomes a story about coming out, co-parenting, and searching for safety.
Leaving the United States becomes a family story here, not an escape fantasy. Jamie's conversation with TJ follows the life TJ had built, the marriage that ended, coming out, co-parenting with his ex, and raising a transgender daughter while rethinking what safety could mean.
A grounded conversation about queer family secrecy, honest communication, and compassion across generations.
Ann Russo's conversation draws its force from a family life organized around secrecy. She describes growing up while her family presented itself as straight and referred to her dad's partner as a roommate, a silence rooted in fear and sustained through her childhood.
A hard-won twin story that keeps the emotional cost of queer family building in clear view.
A two-year IVF journey is handled as a candid queer family-building story, one shaped by repeated disappointment before the arrival of fraternal twin boys.
A warm behind-the-scenes announcement about choosing momentum over perfection.
A long-planned announcement turns into a small, engaging portrait of two people figuring out how to build a show together. The host brings in Jose Rallon, also known as NYC Gay Dad, for a conversation about sharpening intros, shaping outros, and rerecording when an early version…
A grounded queer family conversation about parentage, co-parenting, and blended family life after a breakup.
The episode finds its shape in the shift from having a child together to learning how to co-parent after the relationship ends. The guest talks through having a son, separating within a year, and later joining a blended family with a girlfriend who also has children.
A clear, humane look at surrogacy, ethics, and the cost of building a family.
This episode follows Daniel Berezowski and his husband through the costly, emotional work of becoming dads via surrogacy, without sanding off how messy it is.
A clear, urgent look at how anti-trans politics reaches into family life.
The episode frames trans rights as part of family life, not just a policy debate, and that is where it is most effective. Marie Newman says laws and politics show up in housing, education, employment, and other everyday settings, and she brings the steadiness of someone who has…
A practical take on queer parenting, medical advice, and what safety means.
Queer family parenting is handled as a question of judgment, trust, and safety rather than slogan. The discussion stays grounded as it moves through pregnancy research, hospital advice, and the pressure to challenge default medical narratives.
Public lives, private fatherhood lessons.
Less perfection, more workable home routines.
Christian leadership for a pressured culture.
Gay parenting gets very literal here.
Ranae von Meding says she and her wife had to go from Dublin to Barcelona and then Portugal for reciprocal IVF because Ireland did not license the treatment when they started.
We had to borrow from pension fund for IVF that insurance didn't cover
Jamie interviews attorney Alexander Paikin of Paikin Law about surrogacy, parentage orders, and the legal steps queer intended parents face before a baby is born.
Surrogacy gets messy fast here.
Ann Russo starts with a family that had to stay half-hidden.
Kirstie Lohr opens with a hard truth.
SC Neely describes growing up in an evangelical cult, being homeschooled, and being told as a child that she “was going to be a lesbian,” then later building a family with a close friend.
Rachel Minkin of Pew Research Center explains a nationally representative survey of just under 4,000 LGBTQ adults and 30 interviews with same-sex parents.
Jesse Callans, a trans masculine father of four and author of the middle-grade novel Ollie in Between, talks about transitioning after his children were born and why he describes the book as “a modern Are You There God?
Mark and Owen, two Irish dads raising Aria and Nala through surrogacy, describe how a delayed wedding and the COVID period pushed them to use their savings for an independent family-building process.
Sarah, a queer mom in London, tells Jamie how she and her wife Beth built their family after getting married in 2010 and starting fertility treatment in their 30s.
Marie Newman says she was the first member of Congress to have a trans child and the first to speak about transgender issues on the House floor, linking her public work to her daughter Evie’s transition.
Jamie opens on the work of queer family-making.
Emily and Sarah, listeners from Atlantic Canada, describe conceiving while living in Nunavut by shipping fresh sperm from Sarah’s brother Justin, one of her quadruplet siblings.
Jamie introduces Casey O’Roarty, host of Joyful Courage, as a positive discipline trainer and adolescent coach who works with families from zero through 18.
Ash, a midwife, nurse, Palestinian, and trans non-binary parent, links queer birth work to a larger question about suffering, separation, and liberation.
TJ Schimmel describes moving from a wife-and-kid "American dream" to life in Spain with his husband, transgender daughter Opal, and a new sense of safety.
The Queer Family Podcast’s ARCHIVAL episode "What Does Pride Mean to You?" compiles answers from guests across the Pride Extravaganza and centers Jamie’s own response about showing up as an authentic self.
Jamie speaks with Nia, founder of Be Parent Surrogacy, about international surrogacy options for LGBTQIA+ families and the agency’s role in supporting intended parents, surrogates, egg donors, and sperm donors.
Hildy Festerling shares her journey coming out as lesbian after years of identifying as bisexual, marrying a man, and having two children.
On the Queer Family Podcast, host Jamie Kellwood interviews Maya Gonzalez, a genderqueer Chicanx artist and creator of the Gender Wheel framework.
Queer Family Podcast Season 15 features host Jamie setting up for Pride extravaganza (8 episodes in June, two per week) with celebrity guests Rosie O'Donnell and Colton Underwood.
Intimate conversation between podcast host Jamie and married couple Kevin and Aleem about their 22-year journey building a family through surrogacy.
Host Jaimie Kelton interviews José Rolón and Luce Remy about LGBTQ family building, legal challenges, and advocacy.
Host Jaimie Kelton interviews Lex Beach, a lesbian mother of seven, about her unique family-building journey starting with sperm as a graduation gift.
The guests talk through surrogacy as one way to build a family.