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By Sister Dana Van Iquity, Words of Wisdumb from a Fun Nun\u2014<\/p>\n
Sister Dana sez, \u201cJust because it is mid-July, and we are no longer celebrating Pride Month, doesn\u2019t mean we queers are any less PROUD! LGBTQ Pride is all year long: 24\/7!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Way before the San Francisco Pride Parade, on June 18, San Francisco leaders held a rally at City Hall to support a bill expanding LGBTQ civil rights. The proposed bill would protect and make the city a refuge to shield LGBTQ Americans who live in the city from out-of-state convictions tied to gender-affirming care, abortion, or drag performance. City leaders said this proposal was an effort to counter a growing wave of laws criminalizing those activities in other states. \u201cLaws that were once unimaginable are now being used to investigate and punish people simply for seeking healthcare or expressing who they are,\u201d said SF Supervisor Bilal Mahmood. \u201cFor generations, people have come to San Francisco seeking freedom and a chance to build a better life. Our city has always opened its doors, and we are here not about to let other states\u2019 bigotry close those doors on them.\u201d State Comptroller Malia Cohen, activist Honey Mahogany, and representatives from Planned Parenthood also spoke at this pre-Pride Parade demonstration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Frameline Film Festival for its landmark 50th year offered \u201c50 Years of Queer Cinema\u201d and featured the opening night of \u201cLady Champagne\u201d \u2014the riotous sequel of \u201cS\u2013t and Champagne\u201d at the Castro Theatre on June 17 with a fun after-party at The Foundry. Starring, written, and directed by former San Francisco Drag Laureate D\u2019Arcy Drollinger alongside of a cast of clever drag queen villainesses, the titular dancing queen is framed for her husband\u2019s murder. Drag hijinks carry on throughout the fiercely funny flick (although, in my less than humble opinion, in need of a touch more editing for length) and made this Sister howl out loud\u2014especially when D\u2019Arcy joins a convent and is dressed as a nun! Nuntastic!<\/p>\n
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Sister Dana Van Iquity with Hunky Jesus film director and former Bay Times columnist Jennifer Kroot at the showing of her film at Frameline50 on June 26, 2026.
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\u201cOasis Lives! The Future of SF\u2019s Iconic Queer Nightlife Venue\u201d was held on June 24 at 220 Montgomery. KALW gave an interview of Oasis nightclub owner D\u2019Arcy Drollinger and Princess producer Tito Solo moderated by reporter Stafford Hemmer. D\u2019Arcy had already announced the good news at her Lady Champagne Castro Theatre show that Oasis was set to reopen, so this was just icing on the cake!\u00a0<\/p>\n
On June 19 aka JUNETEENTH, the Castro Business District presented Castro Night Market between 18th and Collingwood streets with art, fashion, food, drink, merch, and live entertainment. Especially entertaining was the incomparable, belt-out singer Jason Brock accompanied by the delightful duet of Dee Spencer on electric piano. Electrifying! After his two sets, Jason and I had a great, slightly naughty chat and we took pix with Jason, Dee, and me. Mark your calendars for the next Castro Night Market on the third Friday of July 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Created by Mark Kliem (also known as Sister Zsa Zsa Glamour), Lavender Lounge started as a weekly queer dance party in San Francisco before evolving into a pioneering \u201990s TV broadcast. It documented the city\u2019s nightlife, trans community, and LGBTQ events before YouTube and modern social media. The film appeared at the Frameline Film Festival on June 19 and again at Haight Street Art Center on June 20. Sister Dana was a frequent visitor to the Lounge back in the day, and this show brought back such lovely and wild memories.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sister Dana sez, \u201cLet us REFLECT upon the no-bid $16.65 million Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pond that Trump tried to unnecessarily turn blue but has now become algae-green. Drain the swamp? Is not this a sign from the Universe Above to his \u2018majesty\u2019 to: \u2018HANDS OFF OUR MONUMENTS, you green wannabe king!\u2019\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
On June 21 (Father\u2019s Day) at 470 Castro Street, we honored and celebrated the Tenth Anniversary of STRUT, San Francisco\u2019s home for queer healthcare, culture, and community. This lovely three-tiered (including an outside patio) house party was hosted by Honey Mahogany with Nikki Jizz. It also featured live performances, DJs, and queer art on the walls. I was so happy to wear my original MAGNET T-shirt emblazoned: \u201cNo Blame, No Shame\u201d from ten years ago\u2014when I helped christen Magnet then to become STRUT now. Sister Dana sez, \u201cKeep on struttin\u2019, STRUT!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sister Dana sez, \u201cAs I blew out the candles on America\u2019s 250th Birthday Celebration, I wished Trump had never been born. Happy Independence to all of us true patriots!\u201d<\/p>\n
U.S. Air Force officer Major Jason Watson was arrested on July 2 on the Capitol steps after participating in a protest while in uniform calling for Trump\u2019s impeachment. Just prior to his arrest, his bold speech was so inspiring. \u201cI\u2019m calling on average Americans everywhere to peacefully exercise your First Amendment rights every day until this administration is removed and our democratic republic is restored,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe in America. I believe in us. If just a nobody like me can take a stand for our Constitution and our democratic republic\u2014then you can too. I hope you will join me in the defense of our republic!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Department of Intelligence inexperienced, 2020 election denier, chief Bill Pulte, has nonintelligently begun firing dozens of experienced, qualified intelligence officials just a few weeks after Pulte\u2019s arrival under orders from Trump\u2014because they were part of \u2018The Deep State\u2019 (that doesn\u2019t exist). Sister Dana sez, \u201cSmooth move, punk Pulte, because it\u2019s only our safety at risk. What could possibly go wrong?!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The day before INDEPENDENCE DAY, Trump the Tyrant visited historic Mount Rushmore after The White House had suggested his face should be added to that glorious past presidential mountainside memorial. Sister Dana sez, \u201cWell, of course! As if we needed more T-rump names and faces and memorials stuck everywhere in America to remind us that he is King of Everything! Oh, hell NO!!!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And Trump needs to stop rewriting history to suit his authoritarian impulses to make our American past get weaponized. Historic, award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said it best in his latest, stunning film, The American Revolution. In it, Burns elaborates, \u201cThe story of us is complicated, and it is not a single us. And it is authoritarian impulses to make history for this simple narrative and sow misinformation, disinformation, superstition, and conspiracies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sister Dana sez, \u201cNo thanks to manic Musk and his disastrous DOGE cuts to worldwide healthcare, thousands upon thousands will perish. Switch the letters, and eliminating DEI means DIE!\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
On Independence Day, our hallowed holiday of patriotism, hundreds of white nationalists marched at our Capitol in D.C. carrying confederate flags and chanting, \u201cReclaim America!\u201d But, if they\u2019re so proud, why did every one of them wear special white masks to only expose their eyes and matching caps with weird insignias on their heads? Wouldn\u2019t white hoods be more appropriate? Sister Dana sez, \u201cHey, you creeps, this is America, not AmeriKKK!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n