Sister
Dana sez, “Got Milk? Be sure to celebrate Harvey Milk Day by doing something queerific!”
The State of
California marks May 22nd every year as HARVEY MILK DAY, a statewide day of
significance. Milk (1930–1978) was the first openly gay elected official in
California, serving on the SF Board of Supervisors for 11 months in 1978. He
was assassinated on November 27, 1978, along with SF Mayor George Moscone.
In
honor of Harvey Milk Day, The GLBT HISTORY MUSEUM is offering free admission all
day on May 22nd. The museum celebrates with special activities and displays:
the screen in the Main Gallery will show rare video clips of Milk from the
Daniel A. Smith/Queer Blue Light Collection in the archives; throughout the week
of May 20, the small permanent...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: May 2, 2013
Sister Dana sez, “On May 1st, when I shouted joyfully, ‘May Day! May Day!’ — suddenly I was surrounded by several Coast Guard rescue boats. They confiscated my Maypole.” May is the month of new beginnings. It ’s also a spiritual time, notably Beltane. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON is a stellar...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: April 18, 2013
Sister Dana sez, “When are the Washington D.C. Beltway Boys gonna stop trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor, the sick, and the aged?” Show the President and Congress that our Social Security system is too important to be used as a bargaining chip by...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: April 4, 2013
Sister Dana sez, “Well, Spring has sprung, and I hope it’s not an April Fools joke when the Supremes finally decide we queers are not second class citizens.” Same-sex couples want to marry for the same reasons as anyone else, and they should be able to enter into the...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: March 21, 2013
Sister Dana sez, “I hope the Easter Bunny brings me lots of big baskets and many large packages.” And speaking of Easter, March 31 is the 34th Easter anniversary of THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE, INC. and we will celebrate in Dolores Park with a circus theme. Our Pope...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: March 7, 2013
Sister Dana sez, “I was disappointed when I lined up at the gun exchange program, and they wouldn’t take my glue gun.” But all kidding aside, we need to realize that the Second Amendment specifies “a well-regulated militia,” which means regulation so not everyone can own an assault rifle....
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: February 21, 2013
Sister Dana sez, “I am really anticipating the Oscars - our Gay Super Bowl - especially since Babs Streisand will be singing. That will truly punch my Gay Card!” And the best way to experience the Academy Awards is with ACADEMY OF FRIENDS’ AIDS fundraiser in tribute to the style and glamour...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: February 7, 2013
Sister Dana sez, “What the hell is wrong with Cupid and his missing arrows into this gay nun’s heart time and time again?! Is he still the Valentines mascot? Maybe we should refer Cupid to the Hunger Games.”
RICHMOND/ERMET AIDS FOUNDATION producers Ken Henderson and Joe Seiler presented...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: January 24, 2013
Sister Dana sez, “Guns don’t kill people; bullets kill people. And I do respect 2nd Amendment rights, as long as that entails our founding fathers’ muskets being loaded one bullet at a time. But assault rifles are not necessary to take out a deer.” Sign the petition against gun violence...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: January 10, 2013
Sister Dana sez, “Hey! It’s 2013 - an odd year and a happy queer year for all of us. Hopefully it’s the lucky ‘13 bringing us harmony and equality at last!” SANTACONCERT by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus 23rd annual “Home for the Holidays” was held on...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: December 20, 2012
Sister Dana sez, “Have yerselves some very happy holidaze - no matter how you prefer to celebrate; but remember to keep the ‘X’ in Xmas, you sexy little elves!” RAINBOW WORLD FUND presented the annual Tree of Hope celebration in the Rotunda, where you can still view this amazeballs...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: December 6, 2012
Sister Dana sez, “Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is my civil rights!” - starting with marriage equality in California, if the Supremes come through. WORLD AIDS DAY on December 1st was packed with events, starting with the 19th annual Leadership through Service held in the morning in...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: November 29, 2012
Sister Dana sez, “I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving; although I prefer to call it ‘ThanksGAYing,’ because I am thankful for my queerness. TGIG: Thank God I’m Gay!” Now it’s time to think about World AIDS Day, Saturday, December 1st. PAINT THE CASTRO RED is happening then on Upper Market &...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: November 15, 2012
Sister Dana sez, “Suckit, Log Cabin, cuz Obama-Biden won! We massively queered the vote all over the nation! And here’s to Biden and/or Clinton in 2016! Yowzah!” ELECTION NIGHT started out tense for this nun pundit; but thanks to friends and several medicinal martinis, I rallied enough to join...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: November 1, 2012
Sister Dana sez, “This week is the last you can QUEER THE VOTE and cure Romnesia through Obamacare! Also shut the mealy mouths of Mourdock, Akins, and Sununu! And if you’re still undecided, you’re an idiot!” PROJECT INFORM presented Evening of Hope- A Night of Lifesaving Fashion at the City...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: October 18, 2012
Sister Dana hopes this Halloween won’t be like last year, when he was trick-or-treating and someone screamed at him, “Take off that hideous, horrifying, frightening mask!” - when he wasn’t actually wearing a mask. Sigh. Halloween is the perfect season to see SHOCKTOBERFEST 13: THE BRIDE OF DEATH, an...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: October 4, 2012
Sister Dana sez, sorry PETA, but I don’t want to live in a world without leather! FOLSOM STREET LEATHER FAIR was hot, despite occasional cool winds. Folsom Street Events has given back to the community nearly $5 million over its 29 years. This year the Fair had over 400,000...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: September 20, 2012
Sister Dana, in honor of Leather Week in SF, advises in rhyme: “Whatever the weather, you’d better wear leather!” Leather Week officially began with the Raising of the Leather Flag in Harvey Milk Plaza during Sandy “Mama” Reinhardt’s 21st ANNUAL LEATHER WALK, beginning at Harvey Milk Plaza and ending...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: September 6, 2012
Sister Dana sez he is sorry for all the tragedies suffered on the coast, but has to think if God loves the Republicans soooo much, then why did He send the storm Isaac down upon their Republican National Convention? PEACHES CHRIST’S SHOWGIRLS show and movie screening starred Rena Riffel...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: August 23, 2012
Sister Dana sez Repugnican Rep. Paul Ryan as Mittens’ Veep candidate is good news and bad news: good news for us, since that ticket is soooo ultra-conservative, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-elderly, anti-labor that most voters will go for Obama; bad news if those R&R bastards win! Really bad news!!! HELP...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: August 9, 2012
Sister Dana is extremely proud of his gold medal in the Olympic Games of Cruising Castro’s Collingwood Park! PROJECT LOHAN is a brilliant must-see production starring D’Arcy Drollinger as Lindsay Lohan, playing at The Costume Shop, 1117 Market at 7th Street, August 9, 10, 11, 12; 16, 17, 18, 19. Written...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: July 26, 2012
Since July 14th was Bastille Day, Sister Dana French-kissed a lot of guys. That’s why they call it “Gay Paree!” And speaking of French revolutions, catch the revolting musical at Brava Theatre. No, not the pejorative “revolting,” but rather the action of staging a revolt. It’s Marc Huestis’ and...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: July 12, 2012
On the Fourth of July, Sister Dana declared independence from the Republican oligarchy, plutocracy and theocracy of AmeriKKKa. I also reminisced about last month’s wonderful Pride events. There was the 14TH ANNUAL PRIDE BRUNCH fundraiser for Positive Resource Center at Hotel Whitcomb produced by Donna Sachet and Gary Virginia....
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: June 14, 2012
Sister Dana Van Iquity is pissed that he’s not a Pride Parade Grand Marshal, and Sister Roma is! Nah, jus’ kiddin’! Roma’s my longtime good buddy. I just wrote that as a sneaky trick to get you to read this: THE SISTERS’ ROAST OF SISTER ROMA, Wednesday, June 20, at SupperClub,...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: May 31, 2012
Sister Dana Van Iquity thinks May is soooo last month, and welcomes the way kewler June month of Queer Pride! ALL THINGS MILK included the unveiling ceremony of the new Harvey Milk plaque in Milk Plaza and the MILK movie screening on Harvey Milk Day, May 22nd. The plaque...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: May 17, 2012
Sister Dana Van Iquity would like to wish a belated Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers and muthah-fukkahs out there! Some mothers are lesbians, so it’s only right to talk about the NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS (NCLR) and their 35th anniversary at Westin St. Francis on Cinco...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: May 3, 2012
TRIBUTE TO OZ was at the Midnight Sun with Cookie Dough’s Monster Show, “A Visit to the Emerald City.” The night was absolutely wizard (literally) with songs from Wicked and The Wiz. Cookie appeared as Dorothy Gale in Oz - lip-synching OZzy Osborne’s Ozzfest of “Over the Mountain” in her...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: April 19, 2012
Sister Dana Van Iquity worries if April showers bring Mayflowers, however will we deal with all those Puritan immigrants landing in town? We Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence really got our religiosity on this Easter, starting with handing out palm fronds in the Castro on Palm Sunday with Night Ministry,...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: April 5, 2012
Sister Dana Van Iquity heard the Easter bunny ran away with the Playboy bunny in a hot lesbian affair Celebrating the 130th anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s visit to San Francisco in March 1882, for the U.S. debut of WILDE SALOMÉ, the film’s director and star Al Pacino came to...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: March 22, 2012
Sister Dana Van Iquity is still recovering from a green beer, Irish whiskey and lime Jello shots hangover from St. Patrick’s weekend THE DAY AFTER ST. PATRICK’S DAY BEER BUST at the Edge was a festive fundraiser produced by Sister Pat N Leather and hosted by Sue Casa, featuring entertainment by...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: March 8, 2012
Sister Dana Van Iquity is Leaping through the Year
Krewe de Kinque held our annual Mardi Gras bus/ bar crawl on Fat Tuesday, produced by KdK King VII John Weber, as a fundraiser for AIDS Housing Alliance. We started out at The Mix in the Castro with Queen IX...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: February 23, 2012
Sister Dana Van Iquity wonders why so long after Mardi Gras there is still a massive amount of beads and glitter all over his body
Krewe de Kinque threw a fabulous Mardi Gras masked ball, “Occupy Bourbon Street: Party with the Naughty-nine%!” at Trigger. The décor was all...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: February 9, 2012
The heart of Sister Dana Van Iquity is empty, because there’s no candy in his box Because of the dearth of valentines sent his way, Sister Dana mourned the loss and instead celebrated a Happy Lunar New Year in the Year of the Dragon at Immune Enhancement Project’s open...
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Sister Dana Sez
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: January 26, 2012
Is everybuddy else enjoying the far right fundamentalist Prezzy candidates ripping at each other’s flesh like I am? It’s more entertaining than any football game to watch these guys punt one another down the primary field, so to speak. Truly wise Democrats will use as campaign ads all these nasty...
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Sister Dana Van Iquity has already broken his New Year’s Resolutions
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: December 29, 2011
It’s MY BIRTHDAY PARTY at the End-Up with fabulous hosts - Patrik Gallineaux, actor Jai Rodriguez (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy), and entertainer Cassandra Cass - who will be whisking you off to “Xanadu.” Launch your New Year’s Eve at “Tranadu,” the Stoli VIP party at the legendary End-Up,...
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Sister Dana Van Iquity is Occupying the North Pole
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: December 15, 2011
Ho, ho, ho! No, not really; but The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence did help Occupy the Castro, where protesters held signs with the Monopoly game’s “rich man in top hat and cane” fleeing from the 99% in fear. Sister Dana held a sign stating: “Tax the Church!” We nuns performed...
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Sister Dana Van Iquity is Donning Now His Gay Apparel
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: December 1, 2011
Holy holly and hallelujah, Handel! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Let’s be sure to keep the “X” in Xmas. Yes, the holidaze are here. This is also the beginning of the dreaded LDB game. Among my Burning Man pals, we fervently compete to be the last player...
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Sister Dana Van Iquity is Talkin’ Turkey
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: November 17, 2011
Thanksgiving is coming up, and it always gets me thinking what I am thankful for. My answer is definitely: I’m thankful I’m gay. In fact, I’d like to change the name of the holiday to ThanksGAYing! Thank God I’m Gay. TGIG for short. We gays (LGBTQ inclusive) have style and...
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Halloween Tricks & Treats from Sister Dana Van Iquity
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: November 3, 2011
How was YOUR Hollow Weenie? I thoroughly enjoyed the GLAAD “Heroes and Villains” themed costume party fundraiser at 80 Missouri. Creator Adam Sandel was the poofy emcee from Cabaret. Hostess Donna Sachet was a naughty nurse. GLAAD Regional Director Juan Barajas was a silver glitter-gloved Michael Jackson. I was Super...
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Words of Wisdumb from Sister Dana Van Iquity
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Published: October 20, 2011
I never thought I would paraphrase Prez Ronald Reagan, but here goes: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall (Street)!” The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence gathered in Harvey Milk Plaza on Oct. 15 to rally and join the lively SF Occupy Wall Street contingent downtown in front of the Fed Bank....
