Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - "Saints"

"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;
  • 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;
  • Juanita More,
  • Trauma Flintstone,
  • Connie Champagne,
  • Donna Sachet,
  • Hekilina and
  • Peaches Christ.

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Famous quotes containing the word saints:

    “If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint,
    With saints doth bait thy hook! Most dangerous
    Is that temptation that doth goad us on
    To sin in loving virtue.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
    And God Save—as you prefer—the King or Ireland.
    The land of scholars and saints:
    Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
    Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints,”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)