"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:
“How marvellous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men’s hands; cemented with men’s honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human—for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.”
—Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl Rosebery (1847–1929)
“It is an art apart. Saint Francis of Assisi said—”All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep hotel.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“We know of no scripture which records the pure benignity of the gods on a New England winter night. Their praises have never been sung, only their wrath deprecated. The best scripture, after all, records but a meagre faith. Its saints live reserved and austere. Let a brave, devout man spend the year in the woods of Maine or Labrador, and see if the Hebrew Scriptures speak adequately to his condition and experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)