So, what was the best moment I came back with from my trip to San Diego? Was it the beautiful morning sitting on the rooftop patio of our condo? The Pacific sunset on the beach near Mission Bay? The impromptu birthday celebration put together by some amazing softball buddies of mine? These were all great…but not the best. Definitely not the most amazing.
That honor would have to go to finally meeting some members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence!!!! 15 years after first seeing and hearing of them, I finally encountered a few of them outside of Urban Mo’s in the Hillcrest (Homo) area of SD!
I’m usually a shy and reserved kinda guy…but I saw them, SHRIEKED LIKE A BIG GAY BIRD and told my dude to get the camera ready…I’M GONNA TAKE A PICTURE WITH THEM!
“Hey ladies!!” I yelled. “Can I take a pic with you bitches? It’s my birthday and it would be the best birthday present in all my fuckin life!”
Seeing as I was wasted from the shot of Crown and something we had just taken—at midnight to celebrate the beginning of my 33rd year on this “unhappy planet with all the carnivores and the destructors”—I can’t be sure that the dialogue went down as I have thus written…but it was something extremely similar…so you get the point.
I was smiling like the Cheshire…and I hardly ever smile. One, I have crooked teeth. Two, what is there to smile about, really? But coming across members of one of the best organizations in our gay world…I had no choice but to beam and bask in their glory!
Come on…with members who have names like Sister Dinah Might (If You Ask Her Right) and Sister Constance Craving of the Holey Desire…who wouldn’t smile?
Anyhoo…if you’ve never heard of them, check them out here.
From the website: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence®
is a leading-edge Order of queer nuns. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment. We belive all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty and we use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency and guilt that chain the human spirit.
Amen, Sisters, amen!!!
