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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence won’t be at Dodgers’ Pride Night. Drag nuns are booked

Sister Unity, left, and Sister Dominia accept the Dodgers’ Community Hero Award on behalf of the L.A. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during a pregame ceremony a Dodger Stadium on June 16, 2023. They are completely booked for all of Pride Month this year, something they credit to all the publicity they received a year ago during what founding member Sister …

Jody Bender holds a sign near where Christian and Catholic groups protest the Dodgers’ inclusion of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on Pride Night at Dodger Stadium on June 16, 2023. The protest was in response to the Dodgers’ plan to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — a satirical performance and activist organization made up of queer nuns in …

L.A. Archbishop José H. Gomez, seen in March, held a Mass before the Dodgers honored the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on Friday. To the editor: Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez’s Mass to “pray for our city” is a disgrace to the church and another slap in the face to the survivors of abuse that has been repeatedly and systematically …

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Republican Congressman George Santos from New York unleashed a bizarre and unsolicited Twitter rant targeting "drag nuns." Despite his involvement in the drag scene, Santos criticized the presence of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a drag activist group, at a Pride Month event in the California Assembly. This decision follows Santos' plea of not guilty to several charges, which include …

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Meet the irreverent order of LGBT+ drag nuns that beat the LA Dodgers

Drag nuns in the outfield? Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence also invited to Angels’ Pride Night

Members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the West Hollywood Pride parade in 2016. Anaheim’s mayor has invited the queer nuns to the Angels’ Pride Night in June after the Dodgers initially decided not to honor them at their Pride Night due to pressure from conservative Catholic groups. The mayor of Anaheim invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a …

The Dodgers booted the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Then came a big-league backlash

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were among the thousands who turned out to participate in the 2019 AIDS Walk L.A. With their kabuki white face paint, electric blue humor and black medieval garb, the satirical nuns of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have long been California’s most recognizable drag outfit, and among its oldest queer service groups. “The Sisters of …

To the editor: The decision by the Dodgers organization to remove the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from its Pride Night celebration goes against everything the team has stood for since it signed Jackie Robinson in 1947. To the editor: So the Dodgers cancel the inclusion in its Pride Night of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — a charity that uses …

A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence marches with fellow activists during the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s “Drag March L.A.” in West Hollywood on April 9. CatholicVote President Brian Burch — who has previously blamed the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attacks on the “pent-up frustrations of citizens” caused by pandemic shutdowns, “antifa” and “election irregularities” — said that …