Meet Fern Connections: An LGBTQIA+ Matchmaking and Coaching Company Taking Over Colorado

Fern Connections is an LGBTQIA+ matchmaking, relationship, and date coaching company founded by Daphney Poyser, a certified matchmaker and science-based relationship coach. Regarding her company, Ms. Poyser says that she “decided to start (her) own matchmaking business for people who want to love whomever and however they please and not have to be tied to societal norms or denied love because of their race or sexual preference.”

Poyser says that in her mind, “The new normal is open for people to date someone outside of their race… someone who is much younger or older, or even someone who has different viewpoints, religious beliefs, and backgrounds” from them. So why should dating someone of the same or the same gender be any different? Well, at Fern Connections, it’s not.

The company states that in working with the LGBTQIA+ community, they hope to normalize the reality and validity of queer relationships. From recent actions such as the passing of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill to the harmful attacks against transgender youth and adults across the nation, the safety of queerness in America is constantly being contested by the communities around it. Whether it relates to matchmaking or community building as a whole, the company’s mission statement lists that their role in this world is to “inspire people across the country to live and love in their truth,” regardless of the limitation’s others put on what is correct or normal. 

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The company offers an array of packages and membership options, at varying price points, to best serve what their client is looking for during their dating journey. Including an Elite Matchmaking service that Fern Connections green lighted this year. 

Fern Connections says that this new initiative was born out of a desire “to create a package that supported the unique needs and eminence of our higher profile community members” and that while historically, “elite” spaces or places of “prestige” have held little to no space for people of color, queer, transgender, or nonbinary individuals,” Fern Connections, in offering this service, attempts to subvert the heteronormative and binary ideal of what it means to live and date as a financially and socially successful minority individual. 

The company has jumped over an impressive number of hurdles in the short two years they have been in business, and their place in the world of LGBTQIA+ dating and media is only rising. In fact, earlier this year, the company began a partnership with a high-profile production company–the same one behind “We Are Here” and the “Indian Matchmaker,” and began casting for a Queer dating show in the DFW area*. 

According to Poyser, the experience has been so amazing and something that she would have never dreamed of in a million years, yet one she is so excited to continue with. The company has also formed a partnership with Kelleher International, expanding their role in the LGBTQ+ space. This is Kelleher’s first venture into this space, and with Fern Connections assistance, is set to bring lots of promise to people within the Queer community across America. 

Ready to take the next step? Head over to Fern Connections website to learn more about their services and to book a free consultation with their Certified Matchmaker, Daphney Poyser.

*The first round of casting for this show has already finished, but follow the company’s social media for further updates.