"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 countless words of saints and sages waken people from their dreams.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Its imaginary value will increase with the years, and if he [his grandson-in-law] lives to my age, or another half century, he may see it carried in the procession of our nation’s birthday, as the relics of the saints are in those of the church.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“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)