"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:
“The Saints come,
as human as a mouth,
with a bag of God in their backs,
like a hunchback,
they come,
they come marching in.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“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)
“Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms 149:5-9.