Welcome to the Sisters

The Sisters, along with Castro Community on Patrol, has launched a campaign to remind us of a few key pointers that can help us keep safe during Pride, as well as all year long.

They are:

PARTY WITH A COMPANION, OR COMPANIONS
HIDE VALUABLES
Phone, iPads, cash
LIMIT CASH YOU CARRY
BE AWARE
See who is around you
CHOOSE WELL-LIT STREETS
CARRY A SAFETY WHISTLE

Now get out there and celebrate!

A Nun on Your Side

	Though Sisters always want you to indulge when it comes to life (heck, it's part of our name, you know), nevertheless you want you to do it (whatever it is) safely. Below are some of our on-going campaigns that aim to keep you safe and, remember, you always have a nun on your side.

	• Play Fair Safer sex techniques intended to give you the basics and encourage you to get informed, have fun and lose the guilt.

	• Stop The Violence A practical guide on how to stay safer in the streets, as well as resources if you are the victim of a crime.

	• QP! Sister maeJoy's tips on how to take care of yourself during Pride, or at any time for that matter.

	• Bicycling Safety We're lucky to live in a city that makes it fun and easy to get around on two wheels. The Sistes want to make sure San Francisco cyclers get around safely and smoothly, so we're offering you some nunly biking wisdom.

It Gets Better

An anti-bullying message
in support of the
Trevor Project's
It Gets Better campaign.

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Personal Safety Seminar

Saturday, June 22, 12:30-4:30pm
Eureka Valley Recreational Center, Main Gym
18th & Collingwood, SF
Register for your free ticket
Free

Not feeling quite safe in the streets? Concerned about recent crime in the "gayborhood." Then, this free seminar is for you. The Sisters' Stop the Violence Campaign has teamed up with Community Castro on Patrol to offer another personal safety seminar. Presented by CCOP's Ken Craig, who is a Grand Level martial artist, the seminar is designed for everyone, 18 years up (and under 18 with a parent or guardian present) and is a fun, information-packed, low-impact format with both lecture and interactive components. Though the seminar is free, use the "Click to register" link above to reserve your spot.

Drags vs Hags: Kickball Extravaganza

Saturday, June 22, 2-5pm
Eureka Valley Rec Center Field
$10 pre-sale; $15 at the gate; $25 VIP
Purchase pre-sale tickets

All right, darlings, it's time to kick up the dust at the first annual "Drags Vs. Hags: Kickball Extravaganza" where drag queens go up against girly girls in a fight to the finish. This game, however, will have some interactive fun from the audience. Starting at just $5 you can "tweak" the game and effect its outcome (for example, $20 and you can make a player run backwards, $100 to steal a base or, if you're Daddy Starbucks, $350 for a grand slam). The organizers of the event, Finding Fellowship, which produces retreats for recovering meth users, promises that this will be fun for all ages and budgets.

The Great South of the Slot Scavanger Hunt

Saturday, June 22, 2 - 5pm
START: Yerba Buena Gardens
END: SF Eagle
Scavenger hunt: free; Beer Bust: $12

This scavenger hunt covers the significant haunts, present and past, of the leather, BDSM and kink communities in the neighborhood we now call SOMA but at one time was called "South of the Slot" and "Miracle Mile". What will be uncovered, untied or ungagged? This hunt commemorates the 50th anniversary of The Tool Box, the first gay motorcycle bar that opened in 1962, and remembers the iconic image of ourselves in LIFE Magazine with the new famous mural by Chuck Arnett. After hitting all the significant spots whet your whistle at the Eagle Beer bust, which will benefit the SOMA Guardians and the Sisters and is the endpoint to this first-time event.

BIG JOY, The Adventures of James Broughton

Saturday, June 22, 4pm
Castro Theatre
General Public: $10; Members: $8
Purchase Tickets

James Broughton was a trickster as well as one of our Sisters, Sister Sermonetta. "He had a way of getting at the serious by focusing on the silly, and that’s very seductive,” says Armistead Maupin at the start of this entertaining documentary that traces the artistic explorations and romantic romps of the great, gay Renaissance man—poet, filmmaker, and sexual liberator—of San Francisco counterculture. Broughton’s inexhaustible creativity and polysexual escapades made for an action-packed and rewarding life, though not one without its challenges. Hailing from Modesto, Broughton escaped into the city’s underground scene, kicked off poetry festivals, directed award-winning films, shacked up with Pauline Kael, taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, joined the Radical Faeries, and became a charter member of the Sisters. “I believe in ecstasy for everyone,” he exclaimed with glee. Co-directors Eric Slade, Stephen Silha and Dawn Logsdon have made a joyous film that does full poetic justice to their bountiful subject, an ebullient artist whose spirit of adventure continues to galvanize queer culture.

JOY! Portrait of a Nun

JOY! (trailer) from Joe Balass on Vimeo.

Sunday, June 23, 1:30pm
Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street
General Public: $10; Members: $8
Purchase Tickets

After sold-out screenings in London and Montreal, the new feature documentary by Joe Balass, "JOY! Portrait of a Nun," will have its US premiere at Frameline 37. "Joy!" profiles founder Sister Missionary P. Delight and her fellow prioresses as they look back on decades of antics and activism. Mish helped found the Sisters in 1979 as a reaction against Catholicism’s repressive edicts, donning saintly apparel and attracting a devoted following of gay male nuns (and eventually people of all genders and orientations), who are deeply committed to consciousness-raising and community charity. Through interviews, vestal memorabilia and rare archival footage, the film follows Mish and a bevy of Sisters over a seven-year period of parades, faeries, elves, rituals and sex-magic. Viewers of all spiritual persuasions who just can’t seem to kick the habit will genuflect in ecstasy as "Joy!" delivers on its title with perfect (nun)sense.

Joy! After Party
Sunday, June 23, 3pm
Truck Bar, 1900 Folsom

Come and talk to the director, Joe Balass, and stars of the film including Sister Mish, who has made special trip from her current home in the woods of the Deep South, in an intimate and fun setting. Try a special "JOY SHOT" and help raise money for the film.

Can't come in person? You can still help the film producers enter it into other film festivals by making a contribution here.

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Volunteer for Pink Saturday

We need you to volunteer
for Pink Saturday

Come work the gates with us at San Francisco's largest street fair held June 29th, the night before Pride, and give back to the community. You will join hundreds of volunteers from a multitude of area nonprofits as we welcome people to Pink Saturday and ask them for a donation. Use the button below to sign up for a shift and for details. Use the join code RINGER.

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