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Queer Money Podcast, New York, NY (2026)

06/03/2026

Born to travel? Us, too. Continue👇

Some were born to turn those vacations into an early retirement plan.

If your love language is passports, pretty streets, long lunches, ocean views, and pretending every balcony is your future home… same.

But here’s the grown-up gay math:

If you want to turn your love of travel into early retirement abroad, you need more than a cute Airbnb and a fantasy involving wine at 2 p.m.

You need a recipe.

Start by picking 3 to 5 places you could actually see yourself living, not just visiting.

Then compare the real-life stuff:
→ Cost of living
→ Healthcare access
→ Visa and residency rules
→ LGBTQ+ safety and community
→ Rent, groceries, transportation, taxes, and “oops, we forgot that” expenses

Then test-drive the lifestyle. Spend enough time there to see what Tuesday feels like, not just vacation Saturday.

Because retiring abroad is about designing one that costs less, feels better, and gives you more freedom while you’re still young enough to enjoy it.

That’s how someday becomes real.

And what’s the first step to start this journey abroad?

👉 The Q***r Money Retire Abroad Checklist.

Want a copy?

🏳️‍🌈 Comment or DM ABROAD for a copy, then check your inbox.

06/03/2026

Ten years ago today, on June 3, 2016, we hit publish on the very first episode of the Q***r Money Podcast.

The topic?

Coming out at work.

That first day, we had 11 downloads.

Not 11,000.
Not 1,100.
Eleven.

And somehow, that was enough proof that this conversation needed to exist.

When we launched Q***r Money®, it was the first personal finance podcast created specifically for the LGBTQ+ community.

A decade later, Q***r Money® is now a Top 1% podcast globally across all podcasts, not just LGBTQ+ podcasts, not just money podcasts, and not just niche shows.

Today, Q***r Money® has grown into a multi-channel media platform with:

⭐1 million+ podcast downloads
⭐110,000+ followers across social media
⭐Hundreds of thousands of YouTube views every year
⭐Sponsorships from brands including MassMutual, Prudential, Capital One, Optimize Investment Partners and others
⭐A growing library of tools, resources, and city data helping LGBTQ+ people make smarter money and life decisions

Over the years, we’ve used this platform to talk about money in ways that were not being discussed elsewhere.

We’ve explored cascading homophobia, the LGBTQ+ wealth gap, the real costs of transitioning, why LGBTQ+ money is different, the importance of a circular LGBTQ+ economy, and how our community can find affordable, gay-friendly cities to live, retire, and thrive around the world.

We’ve also learned one of the most important lessons in business:

More is not always better. Better is better.

In 2025, we shifted Q***r Money® from publishing two episodes a week to one episode a week.

And now we’re getting more downloads with one weekly episode than we did with two.

That shift reminded us that brand growth is not just about output. It’s about clarity, focus, positioning, and serving the right audience with the right message.

From 11 downloads on day one to a Top 1% global podcast and multi-channel platform reaching hundreds of thousands of people each year, Q***r Money® has become one of the clearest examples in our lives of what happens when mission, market, message, and consistency align.

To every listener, guest, sponsor, collaborator, and person who shared an episode, followed along, bought a resource, or told us, “I needed this,” thank you.

Happy 10th birthday, Q***r Money Podcast

John and I are deeply proud of what this brand has become, and even more excited about where it’s going next.

06/03/2026

Retire abroad, but make it English?
This week on the

Q***r Money Podcast we dive into 5 cities that are great for gay retirees, especially for those who’d prefer to not learn a second language.

Learn about all 5 with the first comment below. 👇🏾

06/02/2026

Retirement anxiety? Maybe this is why👇

Maybe your zip code sucks.

You don’t have a math problem. You have a geography problem.

For many gay men over 50, retirement anxiety sounds like:
⇢ Will I outlive my money and end up a bag lady?
⇢ Can I afford healthcare?
⇢ Where can I live that’s affordable AND gay-friendly?

So, let’s shift from “Do I have enough?” to “Where could my money give me the best life?”

Because retiring abroad may lower your costs, expand your options, and help you build a life that feels less like survival… and more like freedom.

But before you choose a country, price the fantasy:
⇢ Monthly costs.
⇢ Healthcare.
⇢ Visa rules.
⇢ LGBTQ+ safety.
⇢ First-year move costs.
⇢ Emergency savings.

That’s when your plan gets hot.

But there’s a whole world out there. So, if you’re not sure where to start, we’ve got you.

🏳️‍🌈 Download the Q***r Money Retire Abroad Checklist via the first comment below 👇🏾

06/01/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Why wealth is today’s “brick”👇

Corporate Pride was cute until it got inconvenient.

So, what now?

We become financially self-sufficient. Personally. Collectively. Strategically.

Because while too much of the LGBTQ+ community has been told to be grateful for visibility, the anti-LGBTQ+ Industrial Complex has been building power for decades.

They’re organizing. They’re training financial advisors. They’re funding lawsuits. They’re backing politicians. They’re using donor-advised funds, tax advantages, recurring contributions, appreciated assets, and investment growth to build a giant purse to fund their agenda.

That money supports groups and efforts tied to Alliance Defending Freedom, the National Christian Foundation, The Signatry, The Barnabas Foundation, The Timothy Plan, Kingdom Advisors, and more.

They’re not just passing money through.
They ‘e building pools of wealth that can generate more money, more influence, more lawsuits, more policy fights, and more attacks on our rights.

Meanwhile, we’re not funded this way.
Not at scale.
Not consistently.
Not strategically enough.
And that is to our detriment.

We cannot keep relying on corporations to save us, politicians to remember us, or allies to show up only when it looks good on LinkedIn.

That starts with getting out of high-interest debt, building emergency savings, improving credit, investing consistently, creating multiple income streams, supporting LGBTQ+ financial professionals, funding queer-owned businesses, and eventually giving to pro-LGBTQ+ organizations in ways that do not sacrifice our own financial security.

Broke and burned out is not a liberation strategy.
Financial security is Pride.
Wealth-building is Pride.
Q***r money is protest.

Want to dive deeper?

We expose the anti-LGBTQ+ Industrial Complex even more in the Q***r Money Kickstarters. Want more on this and how to start building financial security for yourself?

🏳️‍🌈 Comment or DM KICKSTARTER (then check your DMs).

05/31/2026

Can’t retire fabulously in the US? Try these👇

You don’t need a Silicon Valley paycheck or a Fire Island inheritance to retire fabulously.

Some of the gayest, prettiest, most “wait, I can live THERE?” cities are more affordable than you think.

And no, affordable does not mean cheap.

For this list, affordable means meaningfully less expensive than Chicago, using Numbeo’s cost of living including rent, while still offering LGBTQ+ safety, healthcare access, livability, and real retirement potential.

We also factored in Equaldex, ILGA-Europe where applicable, Williams Institute Global Acceptance Index, and our Q***r Money Retirement Rating.

The updated winners?

10. Montpellier, France
~30% cheaper than Chicago
Equaldex: 74 | ILGA: 60% | Williams G*I: 7.73
QMRR: 7/10

9. Leipzig, Germany
~25–35% cheaper
Equaldex: 80 | ILGA: 70% | Williams G*I: 7.73
QMRR: 8/10

8. Ljubljana, Slovenia
~34% cheaper
Equaldex: 65 | ILGA: 54% | Williams G*I: 6.21
QMRR: 8/10

7. Valletta/Sliema, Malta
~20–25% cheaper
Equaldex: 80 | ILGA: 88% | Williams G*I: 8.01
QMRR: 8/10

6. Ghent, Belgium
~20–25% cheaper
Equaldex: 78 | ILGA: 85% | Williams G*I: 7.95
QMRR: 8.5/10

5. Santiago, Chile
~50–55% cheaper
Equaldex: 80 | Williams G*I: 6.83
QMRR: 8.5/10

4. Montréal, Canada
~32% cheaper
Equaldex: 92 | Williams G*I: 9.02
QMRR: 8.5/10

3. Mérida, Mexico
~55% cheaper
Equaldex: 48 | Williams G*I: 6.50
QMRR: 9/10

2. Valencia, Spain
~37% cheaper
Equaldex: 100 | ILGA: 89% | Williams G*I: 8.77
QMRR: 9/10

1. Cascais, Portugal
~20–30% cheaper
Equaldex: 77 | ILGA: 67% | Williams G*I: 6.87
QMRR: 10/10

Retiring abroad isn’t just about finding the cheapest place on the map. It’s about finding the place where your money, safety, healthcare, rights, community, and joy can all show up at the same party.

Not sure where to start to retire abroad? What your next steps should be or what it’ll cost?

We got you!

🏳️‍🌈 Comment or DM ABROAD for the Q***r Money Retire Abroad Checklist.

05/31/2026

What scares you most about retirement: running out of money, healthcare costs, being bored, choosing the wrong place, or realizing work was your entire personality?

05/30/2026

Wanna retire abroad? Don’t skip this👇

More gay retirees and almost-retirees are looking at the U.S. and thinking, “Is this really where I want to spend the next 30 years?”

Between political chaos, rising costs, healthcare anxiety, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, and the very reasonable desire to live somewhere more affordable, more peaceful, and more gay-friendly, retiring abroad is starting to look less like a fantasy and more like a plan.

But here’s the truth. A vacation isn't a life plan.

That cute café, cheap wine, dreamy balcony, and “we could totally live here” moment hits different when you’re dealing with groceries, doctors, banks, laundry, loneliness, taxes, visas, medication refills, and Tuesday.

Retiring abroad can absolutely help you lower your cost of living, improve your quality of life, and create more freedom. But only if you know what you’re doing before you go. Because the first year abroad can get spicy... fast.

Flights, deposits, visas, apostilles, translations, shipping, storage, healthcare setup, temporary housing, pet relocation, and those fabulous little “oops, we forgot that” expenses can turn “cheap abroad” into “cha-ching abroad” real quick.

Then comes the paperwork.

Residency rules, income requirements, background checks, health insurance proof, renewals, deadlines, and document checklists can derail the dream if you start too late or assume it’ll all magically work itself out.

Spoiler: paperwork doesn't do itself, like us on a lonely Friday night.

And then there’s healthcare.

Medicare won’t pack its bags, and your dream destination still needs doctors, prescriptions, specialists, insurance, emergency care, and LGBTQ+ competent healthcare that works before there’s a crisis.

Lastly, freedom needs a Plan B to your Plan B.

Visas change. Exchange rates move. Rents rise. Healthcare disappoints. Relationships shift. Family needs happen. And sometimes the “perfect” place stops being perfect.

That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t retire abroad.

It just means you need a real plan.

The right planner helps you map the move: compare destinations, think through LGBTQ+ safety and community, track visas and documents, plan healthcare access, create a relocation timeline, build a risk and exit plan, and decide whether the move actually fits your life.

The right calculator helps you price the dream: your monthly budget abroad, one-time move costs, first-year expenses, healthcare costs, income sources, portfolio drawdown needs, emergency reserves, and whether you’re looking at a gap or a surplus.

Together, they turn “Someday, maybe…” into “Here’s where we’re going, what it costs, what needs to happen, and how we make it work.”

That’s freedom in a fabulous little carry-on.

But each journey starts with one small step.

What's that step for you to successfully retire abroad?

🏳️‍🌈 Get your Q***r Money Retire Abroad Checklist in the first comment

05/29/2026

Wanna skip the scam? Continue👇

Study for 20, work for 40, and maybe have a couple of good years in retirement if you’re lucky is a joke.

But expecting this, actually striving for it, is what’s been ingrained in the American psyche since before the Industrial Revolution.

Hard work proves virtue.
Busyness is a badge of honor.
Idol hands are the devil’s workshop.

Work 40 years. Retire at 65.

But the World Health Organization says Americans can expect only about 63.9 years of full health.

And retirement usually has three phases:

Go-Go Years: active, healthy, traveling, living
Slow-Go Years: still independent, but slowing down
No-Go Years: health and mobility call more of the shots

So if you wait until 65 to retire… how many Go-Go Years will you actually get?

How do you skip the scam? You turn assets into cash flow.

How? Your responsibility while you’re in school is to prepare for the best job you can get. Once you get the best job you can, your responsibility is to build assets that generate cash flow.

Then, knowing the realistic numbers you need to hit for early or even traditional retirement, you build a cash-flowing system to fund your lifestyle.

Where do you start to figure out those numbers?

🏳️‍🌈 Comment or DM NUMBERS for the 10 Vital Numbers that you need to know for a successful retirement.

🪩 Share with someone who wants to retire, too.

🪩 Follow for more gay retirement tips.

05/28/2026

Call us crazy but… 👇

No one asked for a UFC fighting match on the White House lawn. But Americans did ask for a lower cost of living and a release of the Epstein files.

No one asked for a $1,000,000,000 White House ballroom. But Americans did ask for a lower cost of living and a release of the Epstein files.

No one asked for higher gas prices and a higher cost of living due to a war with Iran. But Americans did ask for a lower cost of living and a release of the Epstein files.

No one asked for a global trade war (and a higher cost of living). But Americans did ask for a lower cost of living and a release of the Epstein files.

No one asked a higher healthcare costs (due to cancelled subsidies). But Americans did ask for a lower cost of living and a release of the Epstein files.

No one asked for billionaire to get a tax break, while wages continue to suck. But Americans did ask for a lower cost of living and a release of the Epstein files.

If you have to ask why a record number of Americans are leaving the U.S. and why there’s a record drop in tourism to the U.S., we must assume the question’s rhetorical.

If you’re not sure where to begin to move or retire abroad? We’ve gotcha!

🏳️‍🌈 Comment or DM ABROAD for a copy of our Retire Abroad Checklist.

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