Sister Dana Van Iquity E-mail Address? sisterdana@juno.com What is your full Sister name? Sister Dana Van Iquity Other aliases. during Xmas, I am ELFIS, Satan's...er...SANTA'S little helper Date you joined the order? Gay Pride Day, 1985 (yes, she's an OLD nun) What is your occupation? Reporter/reviewer/features writer for the LGBTQ [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer] newspaper, San Francisco Bay Times. Date of birth? Well, I used to date Moses until he brought out those tacky Ten Commandments. It's New Year's Day, 1948... but don't tell anyone; I'm still trying to pass for 30! Hometown? Okaaaaaaaay, so like, it's totally L.A., dude, cuz like I was born in, like, Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, right?? Wicked! Totally rad! When did you discover your calling? As a child, I used to drape a long towel around my head after a shower: I was destined to become either a pirate or a nun: YOU be the judge! Sponsor in the order? I am the daughter resulting from the marriage of Sister Boom Boom and Sister Mysteria of the Holy Order of the Broken Hymen. My postulancy lasted exactly one day. Why did you join? I was hanging with the Sisters while dating Boom Boom and Mysteria, when I volunteered to help them in the '85 Gay Parade in SF; they said the following to me: "We have good news and bad news; the good news is we'd love to have you march with us in the parade; the bad news is YOU HAVE TO BE A SISTER! I was supposed to be a one-time-only Sister Stand-In as the Yellow Nun in their six-nun rainbow of sisters (I called myself Sister Citroen Ma Face (what a lemon of a name!) and was later named Dana Van Iquity by Boom Boom. My reason for joining was to help out during the raging epidemic of AIDS (which was prejudicely called 'GAY CANCER' back then) by fund-raising, spirits-raising, and giving the queer community a badly-needed humor shot in the arm. Religious beliefs (if any)? I believe in the Brotherhood of Man (and Woman...and spirit...and animals and angels and all that there good stuff). I believe we were created to give and receive LOVE, and I try to do that as much as possible...although those Republicans are REALLLLLY putting me to the test! Major projects with the Order. Anything and everything to do with HIV/AIDS. Charities for the LGBTQ community. Fund-raising and Fun-raising, which includes LOTSA parties and performances and playing. Activism and protests and demonstrations. Chronicling SPI and queer events through the media. Goals and aspirations? "Can't we all just get along?" I know that may sound awfully trite, but I'm serious here: I aspire to seeing every single inhabitant of the planet getting along together and having a fun time and not needing to make anyone else wrong. That's the Sisters' motto: "Expiate stigmatic guilt and promulgate universal joy." My goal is JOY! Rules by which I believe. See above: no guilt, just joy... Oh, and if you want to pick me up in a bar when I'm in nun's habit, you need to say the following: "I just know you're a handsome man beneath all that makeup and costume." I'll follow you anywhere! And if you expect to take me home and "do stuff", you'd best know I WILL be showering off the white-face and shucking the nun's habit, cuz I ain't no cartoon-fu*ker! But I do LUV everyone as much as possible! « Return to Meet The Sisters page.