"Saints"
Over the years the Sisters have named as saints hundreds of people who have helped on various projects behind the scenes organizing, coordinating actions or projects, performing at events as an artist or emcee or even serving the greater GLBTI community. Rarely but sometimes they canonize community heroes who have recently died. Some of the more notable saints include:
- assassinated San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk,
- California State Senator Carole Migden,
- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,
- New Paltz Mayor Jason West,
- San Francisco Supervisors Tom Ammiano and Bevan Dufty,
- General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Susan Leal,
- radical faerie founder Harry Hay,
- authors Armistead Maupin and Tonne Serah,
- actresses Margaret Cho, Ethel Merman and Rosie O'Donnell,
- Professor of Christian Theology at King Alfred's College, Winchester Dr. Elizabeth Stuart,
- medical marijuana activists Brownie Mary and Ed Rosenthal,
- artist Derek Jarman,
- former SF City Assessor-Recorder Mabel Teng,
- community activists and organizers;
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- Michael Brandon,
- Molly McKay and Davina Kotulski,
- Tony Buff, Mr. Leather Washington 2002
- Jackie Forster,
- Peter Tatchell,
- ((Greg Day)), San Francisco photographer who documented the early Sisters
- Tony Whitehead, the first Chair of the Terrence Higgins Trust (the largest AIDS charity in Europe);
- Ian Campbell Dunn
- community drag icons and activists;
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- Juanita More,
- Trauma Flintstone,
- Connie Champagne,
- Donna Sachet,
- Hekilina and
- Peaches Christ.
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 2:19-22.
“For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed,
your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed
Alleluia!”
—William Walsham How (1823–1897)