A year after the federal crisis line for LGBTQ+ youth went dark, the co-founder of The Trevor Project is betting on another kind of lifeline where queer youth take the mic. Powered by the national nonprofit The Future Perfect Project, the I’m Feeling Queer Today! podcast—hosted and produced by LGBTQ+ young people aged 16-22—returns for its fourth season today, July 30th.
Over 12 episodes, hosts from across North America sit down with the artists shaping queer culture, whose work many of the young podcasters first encountered alone, in a library or on a screen, wondering if anyone else felt the way they did, leading their questions to go places adult interviewers don’t think to go.
Season 4 unfolds in four chapters, with new episodes rolling out every other week beginning July 30th, 2026:
Queer Lit (July 30 – Aug 27): Conversations with writers Armistead Maupin, Tessa Barcelo and Gio Navas of The Bookish Songs Collective, and more, at a time when books by and about LGBTQ+ people remain the most banned titles in American schools and libraries.
Drag (Sept 10 – Sept 24): Pattiegonia, Junior Mintt, drag archivist Sarah Calise, The Lexapro, Klondyke, & Paradox, and more on craft, history, and joy in an art form that keeps making headlines for every reason except the art.
Queer Fantasticals (Oct 8 – Nov 19): The scifi/fantasy creators and writers who are building worlds where queer kids get to be the heroes, featuring actor and comedian Oscar Montoya, and the queer fanbase that’s come to define the genre.
Journalism & Radio (Dec 3 – Dec 31): Archivist and historian Donna Albino on telling queer stories for a living, interviewed by the young people who plan to do it next.
Meet the hosts:
Alex K. Masse (they/them) is a storyteller from what is colonially known as British Columbia. They’re also a neurodivergent nonbinary lesbian, which greatly affects their creative process. On IFQT, they had the privilege of meddling in music, hosting, writing, research, and editing. When not creating, they’re cozied up with their cat and a good book.
Eric Eubank (they/them) is non-binary writer, speaker, and storyteller. As a student and creative, they try to blend these worlds into a mix of curiosity, activism, and exploration of themself and the world around them. They are originally from Glendale, California, and currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Lily Ariel Mueller (they/she/he) has been telling stories and hugging trees for as long as they can remember. They’re a New England-based writer, artist, and theatre and film maker working at the intersections of queerness, disability, memory, healing, and above all, love.
Parker Mackenzie (she/they) is a queer storyteller with a hunger to understand life and absolutely no idea how to satisfy it. As an extreme introvert, she enjoys horror games, cats, and reading in her free-time. Parker lives in Utah.
Samuel Smalls Jr. (he/him) is a 20 year old performance artist from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They currently attend SUNY Purchase College in New York where they are gaining their BFA in Acting. They love all things Black, Queer, Artsy and Nerdy and they’ve been a member of the IFQT cohort since 2023. They can be found on instagram at @ssmallsjr or at home watching Dimension 20 on Dropout.
Zorian Edwards (he/him) is a transmasc student journalist from Amherst, NY. He studies professional writing and rhetoric at Daemen University, and has a passion for journalism, uplifting LGBTQIA+ youth, and telling the stories of those around them. He has enjoyed writing, interviewing, and recording for IFQT!
Previously on I’m Feeling Queer Today!
Season One (Feb–Oct 2024): The show’s first year, built around the questions queer teenagers actually ask each other. What do labels do for you? What does it cost to be visible? How do you cope? Hosts talked through coming out, Blackness and faith, the thinness of queer representation in mainstream media, and their own mental health. Guests included Jazz Jennings and youth advocate Desmond Napoles. The season closed with a tribute to executive producer and mentor Julie Novak, who died that August.
Season Two (Dec 2024–Mar 2025): Queerness where it meets disability, neurodivergence, and gender. Highlights: a transmasculine roundtable among the producers themselves, disability justice scholar Dr. Joy Ellison on the long history of queer disabled people, and neon artist matteline devries-dilling on running a shop by what they call a “non-binary business model”.
Season Three (June–Dec 2025): A road trip. Hosts traveled to five places to ask what it’s actually like to be queer where you live: an LGBTQ+ youth center behind a Baptist church in Spartanburg, South Carolina; Encircle’s drop-in house in Provo, Utah; the arts high school CAPA in Philadelphia; Kaleidoscope Youth Center in Columbus, Ohio; and Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod. Bonus episodes went to Albert Einstein Academy outside Cleveland — Northeast Ohio’s first LGBTQ+ affirming public high school — and, with the Radio Workshop podcast, to South Africa.
About The Future Perfect Project: The Future Perfect Project is a national nonprofit arts organization that provides free programming in songwriting, storytelling, and podcasting to LGBTQ+ youth ages 13–22, culminating in professional public performances and productions. Co-founded by Celeste Lecesne (co-founder of The Trevor Project and Academy Award–winning writer of Trevor) and songwriter and ASCAP Award-winner Ryan Amador, FPP’s programs include Future Perfect Records, the Original Voice programs, and I’m Feeling Queer Today! Learn more at TheFuturePerfectProject.org.
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