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By Sister Dana Sez, Words of Wisdom from a Fun Nun\u2014<\/p>\n
Sister Dana sez, \u201cI\u2019m so thrilled that the DORE (UP YOUR ALLEY) FAIR came to San Francisco\u2019s SoMa on July 26! It was truly leatherrific!!!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The GLBT Historical Society Museum hosted an evening reception on July 9 that was part mixer, part open-mic, \u201cTHE PLACES WE GATHERED: A Lesbian Story Tellin\u2019, Show & Tellin\u2019, Open Mic Night.\u201d The gathering had invited community members to share memories, stories, art, and love of Bay Area lesbian community spaces, nightlife, and businesses\u2014both here and now sadly gone.<\/p>\n
I visited MAG Gallery, 3931 18th Street on July 10 for \u201cGentleness,\u201dwood carvings and prints byAlexandra Cicorschi who said they were inspired by getting over the awful suicide of her mother. I told her I had a friend who every night prays God will take him in his sleep. Not exactly suicidal, but bordering on it. Through August 2. https:\/\/www.mag-galleries.com\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father and Mexican national in the U.S for almost 35 years, and close to obtaining legal status, was shot and killed on July 7 by Houston ICE agents during an ordinary traffic stop. Contrary to ICE (who were not wearing body cameras), three migrants in the car\u2014who were immediately taken into ICE detention\u2014said they witnessed this awful incident, and the victim did NOT ram his vehicle into officers. The Houston District Attorney stated, \u201cI have the utmost hope that the Department of Homeland Security and the Inspector General, who are conducting this investigation, will share evidence with us.\u201d He added, \u201cRegardless, we will go to the ends of the earth to collect all the evidence so that we can eventually let the public know what happened.\u201d It is comforting to know that Texas Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia is doing everything possible in her power to ensure there is an independent investigation. Sister Dana sez, \u201cICE is NOT nice, and is actually a murderer. Eight deaths so far that remain unaccountable! Melt the ICE now!\u201d<\/p>\n The latest statistics show that ICE made 400,000 arrests in 14 months as of May 26. Black, Latinx, and immigrants bore the brunt. One in five ICE arrests are Latinos on the streets with NO criminal past or removable order. In fact, the last two murders were \u201cmistargeted arrests\u201d who were on their way to become legalized. Back in October, more than 170 U.S. citizens\u00a0had been held by immigration agents. Sister Dana sez, \u201cHey Donnie prezzie baby, your wife is an immigrant. Stop your flunkies trying to make your quota of MASS DEPORTATIONS!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n But once again Heil Donald has lifted the Department of Homeland Security, which had put a \u201cpause\u201d on ICE immigrant-snatching traffic stops. Dear Leader (not!) stated, \u201cWe CANNOT give up one of ICE\u2019s most important Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!\u201d Sister Dana sez, \u201cYeah, listen to this criminal president with umpteen felony charges, because he is the most important \u2018crime fighter.\u2019 Lock him up!\u201d<\/p>\n The old Palm Beach Airport has now been renamed in yet another in his series of narcissistic vanity projects: President Donald J. Trump International Airport. This is because the Trump-supporting, gay-hating Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered this disgusting name change. And, on July 9, Secretary (he might be gay but not proudly queer) Bessent unveiled the tiny French Broad River Bridge in Tennessee renaming it (you guessed it, and I refuse to capitalize it) president donald j trump bridge. Sister Dana sez, \u201cAren\u2019t we supposed to rename most architecture after DEAD presidents? Shouldn\u2019t we wait until after THIS one is DEAD?!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n On July 11, democracy-defiling Donnie fired the last of our three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission to further the threat of midterm election fraud (of which, in the last election, judges only found a mere .0001% of fraud. At midnight, the bipartisan Housing Bill automatically became a law without Trump\u2019s signature or veto. This idiot could have featured a big, beautiful signing ceremony, but instead he threw a big tantrum over Congress refusing to pass his racist, misogynist, anti-election SAVE America Act. Sister Dana sez, \u201cSAVE? More like SLAVE America Act! Saved by the bell? Nope. Saved by the Congress!\u201d<\/p>\n Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) summed up best the lying Presidential Address on July 16, correctly predicting the day before, \u201cThe world\u2019s most famous sore loser will deliver a primetime sour grapes address to pursue his six year old grievances.\u201d At Trump\u2019s actual Address to the Nation, most of his blathering was how he really won 2020 because of \u201cfraudulent election policies\u201d\u2014setting up the perfect preview scaring midterm voters that should be aware of \u201cthe cheating.\u201d Radical rightwing Fox News did not even mention the speech. Sister Dana sez, \u201cNunTheLess, Trump DID lose the 2020 Election by 7 million votes, which were proved NOT FRAUD by more than 60 judicial court cases!\u201d<\/p>\n On July 17, one day after the Presidential Address, Homeland Security threatened any election officials with jail sentences if they don\u2019t follow their \u201celection directives.\u201d<\/p>\n On July 16, I had the joy of visiting the huge art gallery, American Messenger at 1583 Folsom in SoMa, where a dear friend Thomasina DeMaio aka Sister Donatella Dontaska has her magnificent oils and sculptures on display all year long. Says studio owner Charles Linder, \u201cShe\u2019s not only a damn fine painter\u2014she\u2019s a cultural ringleader and a lifelong arbiter of learning and experimentation within her own practice.\u201d On view is a mini career retrospective by one of the most important and legendary painters working in the city today. A graduate of SF Art Institute, Thomasina has worked as an artist and educator in San Francisco for decades, becoming a cherished cultural institution in her own right with her advocacy project, \u201cArt Saves Lives.\u201d Check out her radiant Harvey Milk portrait! Also exhibiting his gorgeous, giant paintings is my friend Jerry Frost, whom I have happily covered in my columns for decades. Go see these masterpieces! I went to their opening that featured the trio of Bean\u2019s Hot Five singing jazzy blues on guitars and heart-thumping bass, and also the fun and fabulous Kitten on the Keys with lovely, if not somewhat naughty, songs.<\/p>\n I attended the first of many new monthly queer activist groups on July 18 at Queer Arts Featured (QAF at 575 Castro Street), \u201cLOW HANGING ACTION,\u201d where their motto is \u201cQueer Joy, Strategic Action, Good Trouble,\u201d as well as \u201cAction Is Hotter with Friends.\u201d We discussed past activist groups and present ones\u2014with the addition of awesome drag performance! https:\/\/www.queerartsfeatured.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Trump has spent the last five weeks fixating on what he calls \u201cresurgent communism.\u201d And yet some of this president\u2019s own policies can be seen as communist: government ownership of private companies; price-fixing instead of allowing free market capitalism to run its course, and calling Vice President Harris a communist during their presidential campaign. At a recent press conference, Donnie the Commie joked, \u201cI would be the greatest communist.\u201d Yes, you are already, and you deserve a gold medal for that. His heroes are full-tilt communist leaders: Lenin, Marx, Mao, Stalin, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Xi, Yun, Putin, and more. Back in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy had his terrible, career-canceling Red Scare regarding alleged communism in America. Sister Dana sez, \u201cTrump is bringing back the Red Scare, and I am so SCARED that it makes me see RED!\u201d<\/p>\n Sister Dana Sez, Words of Wisdumb from a Fun Nun![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-232.png\")
Tito Soto, Dennis McMillan (aka Sister Dana Van Iquity), and D\u2019Arcy Drollinger on June 24, 2026, at the studio of KALW radio (PHOTO BY CHRIS MICHAELSON)<\/p>\n
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