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Silverfoxesclub-digest In this issue: -Sisters Proclaim June Pride Month
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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc.
June 14th, 2001 Drag Nuns Unite Where President Bush Fails [San Francisco, California, USA] On June 2nd, George W. Bush's administration announced that, unlike the Clinton administration, it would not issue a proclamation of formal recognition of Gay Pride Month this June nor would it sponsor an observance. Since taking office, President Bush has issued declarations recognizing Black History Month, Women's History Month, and Irish-American Heritage Month. On June 10th, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc., declared June 2001 and every June thereafter "Queer Pride Month." (text follows; downloadable version available at our website www.thesisters.org) "We understand that President Bush's job and political affiliation sometimes require him to make difficult choices, like weather or not he should use his authority as leader of the United States to recognize the value of millions of human beings who, in spite of suffering spiritual and physical violence, have, throughout history, made countless contributions to the world and enriched life for everyone. That's a tough call," said Sister Bea Attitude, Chairnun of the Board of the San Francisco Chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. "Fortunately, his authority is not the highest authority," "History has shown us that we don't need President Bush Junior to recognize us to be our own fabulous selves," says Sister Kitty Catalyst, Mistress of Archives for the Order, "We are perfect just the way we were born and no matter who we love."
QUEER PRIDE MONTH EVERY JUNE A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS; Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and all others labeled as Queer Americans have made incredible, beautiful and lasting contributions to our Nation in every field of endeavor. AND, WHEREAS; Bull Dykes and Drag Queens led the 1969 Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village in New York City; overturning centuries of oppression, fear and prejudice, leading to taking the streets in the early '70s with an 'in-your-face' attitude. Confronting the worst prejudices of a world that didn't accept them, they fought back against these prejudices, reclaiming the stereotypes about them and turning them into symbols of Queer Pride, AND WHEREAS; Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and all others labeled as Queer Americans are our wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, friends and lovers, teachers, co-workers, colleagues and neighbors; and we have created and nurtured families with Love and Respect, AND WHEREAS; Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and all others labeled as Queer Americans deserve equal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as all Americans. NOW, THEREFORE, WE, THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE, INC., 21ST Century Nuns, by virtue of the authority invested in us by the Expiation of Stigmatic Guilt and Promulgation of Universal Joy, do hereby proclaim June 2001 and every June hereafter as Queer Pride Month. We encourage all Americans and World citizens to observe this month with fabulous programs, ceremonies, parties, parades and fun-filled activities that celebrate our diversity and recognize the Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and all others labeled as Queer Americans whose many and varied contributions have enriched our cultural and national life and improved the lives of people throughout the world. Be it proclaimed so this tenth day of June, in the year two thousand and one.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc.
San Francisco, California,
------------------- Roberta Achtenberg (President Clinton appointee), Edward Albee (playwright), Alexander the Great (Emperor), Pedro Almodovar (film director), Tom Ammiano (San Francisco Board of Supervisor's President), Sasha Alyson (publisher), W.H. Auden (writer), Sir Francis Bacon (writer), Joan Baez (musician), Josephine Baker (singer), James Baldwin (writer), Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin state legislator), Deborah Batts (federal judge), Amanda Bearse (actress), Andy Bell (musician), Ruth Benedict (anthropologist), Michael Bennett (choreographer), Sandra Bernhardt (comic), David Bowie (musician), Rev. Malcolm Boyd (Episcopal priest), Keith Boykin (President Clinton aide), Benjamin Britten (composer), Glenn Burke (pro baseball player), Frank Buttino (former FBI agent), Lord Byron (poet), Julius Caesar (Emperor), Margarethe Cammermeyer (National Guard Colonel), Willa Cather (writer), Margaret Cho (comedienne) , Jean Cocteau (artist), Colette (writer), Aaron Copland (composer), Chief Crazy Horse, George Cukor (film director), James Dean (actor), Lea DeLaria (comedian/actress), Melissa Etheridge (musician), Angie Fa (San Francisco board of education), Harvey Fierstein (playwright), Will Fitzpatrick (Rhode Island state senator), Errol Flynn (actor), E.M. Forster (writer), Congressman Barney Frank, Frederick the Great (Emperor), David Geffen (music producer), Boy George (singer/DJ), Sir John Gielgud (actor), Tim Gill (founder of Quark Inc.), Allen Ginsberg (poet), Lorraine Hansberry (playwright), Sherry Harris (Seattle city council), Harry Hay (Godfather of the Radical Faeries), Bruce Hayes (Olympic swimmer), Janis Ian (musician), Indigo Girls (musicians), Bob Jackson-Paris (pro bodybuilder), Henry James (writer), King James I, Elton John (musician), Frieda Kahlo (artist), David Kopay (pro football player), Sheila James Kuehl (attorney and former TV actress), Tony Kushner (playwright), k.d. lang (musician), Simon LeVay (biologist), Leonardo da Vinci (artist), Frederico Garcia Lorca (poet), Greg Louganis (Olympic diver), Amy Lowell (poet), Ian McKellen (actor), John J. McNeill (religious scholar), W. Somerset Maugham (writer), Keith Meinhold (Navy officer), Michelangelo (artist), Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet), Yukio Mishima (writer), Martina Navratilova (tennis champion), Georgia O'Keefe (artist), Dave Pallone (former baseball umpire), Phranc (folksinger), Plato (philosopher), Deb Price (newspaper columnist), Marcel Proust (writer), Kenneth Reeves (mayor of Cambridge Massachusetts), First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, RuPaul (supermodel), Bayard Rustin (civil rights activist), Sappho (poet), Dick Sargent (actor), May Sarton (writer), Franz Schubert (composer), Randy Shilts (journalist), Bessie Smith (singer), Socrates (philosopher), Jimmy Sommerville (singer), Annie Sprinkle (sexologist), Joseph Steffan (Navy officer), Gertrude Stein (writer), Congressman Gerry Studds, Sylvester (singer), Peter Tchaikovsky (composer), Dorothy Thompson (journalist), Alice B. Toklas (writer), Gore Vidal (writer), Tom Waddell (Olympic decathelete), Andy Warhol (artist), Walt Whitman (writer), Oscar Wilde (writer), Tennessee Williams (playwright), B.D. Wong (actor), Virginia Woolf (writer), Wu (Chinese Emperor), Babe Didrikson Zaharias (pro golfer), Joe Zuniga (former Army sergeant) Since our founding in 1979, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. have been a force for social activism in San Francisco and queer meccas throughout the world. Our common vows are to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt. Our shared ministry is one of public manifestation and habitual perpetration. We pledge support to our fellow sisters toward our personal and collective enlightenment.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. is 100%
volunteer-driven 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. End of silverfoxesclub-digest V1 #272
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