*sniffles*
May. 18th, 2004 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosI love my city.
Yesterday evening a small group of demonstrators/partiers/whatever marched from Powell Street to Civic Center (City Hall).
And when they got there, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence performed an exorcism. To "drive hate out of the White House."
To really get how that makes me miss San Francisco, and why that's just sucha San Francisco thing, you have to understand the Sisters. For example, this is their Chairnun of the Board. That's right -- they're an activist non-profit religion based loosely on Catholicism and filled with cross-dressing male nuns in whiteface who are on the Pope's official list of Heretics. The Sisters take vows to expiate stigmatic guilt and spread universal joy. Novice Sisters spend something like 12 months working with the org before they're considered full Sisters, and they have to be sponsored by other Sisters. It's not a joke organization -- they take it seriously.
And they've been around for ... hey, I think this is their 25th anniversary! And the Sisters started in the Castro. They're now a world-wide org... but still, they're very much a part of gay history in San Francisco.
Yesterday evening a small group of demonstrators/partiers/whatever marched from Powell Street to Civic Center (City Hall).
And when they got there, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence performed an exorcism. To "drive hate out of the White House."
To really get how that makes me miss San Francisco, and why that's just sucha San Francisco thing, you have to understand the Sisters. For example, this is their Chairnun of the Board. That's right -- they're an activist non-profit religion based loosely on Catholicism and filled with cross-dressing male nuns in whiteface who are on the Pope's official list of Heretics. The Sisters take vows to expiate stigmatic guilt and spread universal joy. Novice Sisters spend something like 12 months working with the org before they're considered full Sisters, and they have to be sponsored by other Sisters. It's not a joke organization -- they take it seriously.
And they've been around for ... hey, I think this is their 25th anniversary! And the Sisters started in the Castro. They're now a world-wide org... but still, they're very much a part of gay history in San Francisco.
