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Photos: ‘Jesus Ken’ Wins Hunky Jesus Contest as Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Celebrate Their 45th Anniversary

‘Barbie’-mania had one more hurrah at Easter Sunday’s Hunky Jesus Contest in Dolores Park, with a perfectly Mattel-produced Jesus Ken winning the title and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence honoring their 45th anniversary.

Sister Roma Honored In State Capitol For Pride Month, Despite GOP Lawmakers Throwing A Fit

Republicans are making a habit of disinviting drag nuns The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from Pride events, but they couldn’t stop Monday’s honoring of Sister Roma at the California State Capitol, where Sister Roma ended up getting a standing ovation.

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Dodgers Re-Invite Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night After Much Shaming From LGBTQ Community

Last week's dustup surrounding the L.A. Dodgers' dumb decision to disinvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their Pride Night at the behest of misinformed Catholics and conservatives like Marco Rubio has taken another turn: the Dodgers have apologized and taken it all back.

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and Others Respond to the L.A. Dodgers' Dumbness In Bowing to Marco Rubio

Late Wednesday we learned that the L.A. Dodgers had decided to disinvite the L.A. chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their annual Pride Night game at Dodgers Stadium — something the drag nuns were invited to this year to be recipients of the team's Community Hero Award.

Day Around the Bay: Dodgers Disinvite Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence From Pride Night

The Dodgers have disinvited the Sisters of Perpetual indulgence from their Pride Night due to the ongoing war on drag; a security guard was shot in the Mission; and a Pride flag was torn down from a church in Palo Alto in a possible hate crime.

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In Biggest Hunky Jesus Contest Ever, Ensemble Group ‘Haus of Jesus’ Takes Crown, and We Have Videos

JFC, there were more than 50 Jesuses competing for the coveted Hunky Jesus title Sunday at the annual Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Easter party, including several ensemble-cast groups with puppets and stage productions.

Photos: Thousands Crowd Dolores Park for First IRL Hunky Jesus, Foxy Mary Competitions in Two Years

Under clear skies and plenty of sunshine, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence held their Sister Easter: Back to Our Hold Habits! celebration on Sunday afternoon — the first in-person Easter event the Sisters have held since 2019 — attracting thousands.

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Alley Near Dolores Park to Be Renamed In Honor of Founding Sister of Perpetual Indulgence, Sister Vish-Knew

A one-block street in SF's Mission District, just two blocks away from Dolores Park and near the location where two gay men donned nun's habits in the late 1970s and birthed a drag-activist movement and culture, is set to be renamed in honor of a founder of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Listen: ‘Celebrity Muni Announcements’ From London Breed, Renel, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

Here’s audio of the new Muni ‘celebrity’ transit announcements, though Mayor Breed’s is drawing some heckles from the social media peanut gallery.

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O Sweet Jesus Crowned 2021's Hunky Jesus Winner; ‘Sister Honey Bear’ Prints Raise Over $24K for Charity

For the second year in a row, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hosted their annual Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests online, and crowned winners on Twitch. But the group’s second iteration of its streaming Easter Sunday tradition was arguably much grander than the 2020 event.

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SF Street Artist Fnnch Paints 'Sister Honey Bear' Mural on SoMa's Powerhouse

A new honey bear mural, this one with a nun's habit and white face paint, went up this week on the side of SoMa queer bar Powerhouse at the corner of Dore and Folsom, and it's a tribute to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — with prints being sold to help raise money for them.

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Hunky Jesus Contest Will Be Online-Only Once More This Year

It's nearly Easter, and once again the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will be putting up a blasphemous display of thirst traps dressed up as Our Holy Savior for people to vote on.

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Mary Vice and Mohawk Jesus Rise As This Year's Foxy Mary and Hunky Jesus Winners

During Sunday's Quaran-Tea Dance party, live-streamed on Twitch and Zoom, Sister Roma and Sister Dana announced this year's Foxy Mary and Hunky Jesus winners — Mary Vice and Mohawk Jesus.

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This Year's Online Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary Contests Helped Our Spirits Rise Again

SF’s annual Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests took place online this year — like most events these days. The Easter Sunday 2020 display of skimpily dressed Jesus and Mary look-alikes was, truly, a spiritual sight to behold from its respective Zoom and Twitch channels.

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This Year's Easter Sunday Hunky Jesus Contest To Be Held Online

Assuming we will all still be primarily indoors and isolated come Easter — Donald Trump be damned — the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence has announced that the beloved annual tradition of the Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests will be moving online, like most other live events these days.

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El Rio Will Host The Second Annual San Francisco Krampus Pageant Saturday

Nikolaus Krampus, the Christmas-time cacodemon, has its roots in European folklore. But, in recent years, he’s become something of a camp icon, not unlike Babadook. Tomorrow night, you can expect gaggles of drag queens embody that notion in all manners of over-the-top regalia at El Rio.

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Dispute With Folsom Street Fair Could Untie Their Historic Bond

The Sisters’ longtime habit of collecting donations at the Folsom Street Fair gates may be coming to an end, amid a disagreement over the allocation of charity funds and how volunteer shifts are managed.

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Photos: Hunky Jesus Contest Returns to Dolores Park for Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s 40th Anniversary

Forrest Gump Jesus ran away with the competition, as the Sisters’ annual Easter Sunday hoppening drew thousands for pastel-colored blasphemy.

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Hunky Jesus 2017 Title Goes to 'Wet T-Shirt Jesus' Amid Scattered Showers

The heavens opened up over Sunday’s annual Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Easter parade of whimsical sacrilege that culminates in the Hunky Jesus Contest. Rainstorms of biblical proportions crucified the turnout yesterday in

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Hunky Jesus Contest Returns To Golden Gate Park Easter Sunday, This Time With Trump Exorcism

Jesus died to save our sins... so if we don't sin, Jesus died for nothing, right? That's sort of the attitude of the annual anti-Easter celebration thrown by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

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1015 Folsom Cancels Performance By Virulently Anti-Gay Reggae Artist Sizzla Kalonji

Notoriously anti-gay reggae artist Sizzla, a.k.a. Sizzla Kalonji, who is nonetheless one of the most prolific and popular contemporary reggae musicians in the world, was set to perform at SoMa nightclub

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Photos From Hunky Jesus 2016, The Sinfully Funny Jesus Look-Alike Pageant

Jesus may have died for our sins, but that didn't stop the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, our local order of queer activist anti-nuns founded on Easter in 1979, from keeping up their sinful

Pink Saturday Officially Cancelled This Year

Pink Saturday is no more. The street party that has traditionally taken place the Saturday before the Pride parade, dubbed the Pink Party last year, will not happen this year, reports The Bay

NSFW Photos: [Update] Two Arrested After 'Take Back Dyke March' Splinters From New Parade Route, Overwhelms Police Barrier

Hundreds of protesters splintered from the planned Dyke March route on Saturday to protest changes made to this year's march. It was an act of defiance "in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter

Protest At Facebook HQ Flags ‘Real Names’ Policy for Review

"Never underestimate the power of a pissed-off drag queen,” Sister Merry Peter shouted through her megaphone, addressing more than 150 assembled protestors at Facebook headquarters Monday morning. The ragtag band of privacy advocates,