Join the Grand Canyon Sisters this friday July 6th as we offer our blessings and prayers up for the One Voice Community Center, and EXPOSED Gallery grand openings.
To the left you see my Inspiration for World Dominantion One Step at a Time... the lovely Cera's ballet boots, some hemp rope, and a VERY red wall.
Here we are giving the proclamation, sealed with a kiss from both Lee Luscious and myself, Novice Sister Mischif, to one of the owners of BS West.
Join me tonight at BS West to celebrate the last day of June and the history of GLBTQI people in the United States and Pride for being our fabulous diverse selves, EVERYWHERE!
Here's a quote from GLAAD about the recent Scottsdale situation in case you're not up on the news, folks:
Gay Community Upset Over Scottsdale, Arizona Proclamation
Insulted. That’s how some members of Arizona’s gay community feel about a proclamation issued by Scottsdale. The City’s Human Relations Commission, had drafted a proclamation to designate June as Gay Awareness Month. Instead, Mayor Mary Manross issued a revised version recognizing a “Human Relations Diversity Observance Month” that doesn’t mention gays.Queer Pride Month Every June
By The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc.
WHEREAS; Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and all others labeled as Queer Americans have made incredible, beautiful and lasting contributions to our Nation in every field of endeavor. AND,
WHEREAS; Bull Dykes and Drag Queens led the 1969 Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village in New York City; overturning centuries of oppression, fear and prejudice, leading to taking the streets in the early '70s with an 'in-your-face' attitude. Confronting the worst prejudices of a world that didn't accept them, they fought back against these prejudices, reclaiming the stereotypes about them and turning them into symbols of Queer Pride, AND
WHEREAS; Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and all others labeled as Queer Americans are our wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, friends and lovers, teachers, co-workers, colleagues and neighbors; and we have created and nurtured families with Love and Respect, AND
WHEREAS; Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and all others labeled as Queer Americans deserve equal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as all Americans.
NOW, THEREFORE, WE, THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE, INC., 21ST Century Nuns, by virtue of the authority invested in us by the Expiation of Stigmatic Guilt and Promulgation of Universal Joy, do hereby proclaim June 2001 and every June hereafter as Queer Pride Month. We encourage all Americans and World citizens to observe this month with fabulous programs, ceremonies, parties, parades and fun-filled activities that celebrate our diversity and recognize the Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and all others labeled as Queer Americans whose many and varied contributions have enriched our cultural and national life and improved the lives of people throughout the world.
Be it proclaimed so this tenth day of June, in the year two thousand and one.
I for one am very much looking forward to participating in AIDS Walk of the Valley in 2008. Please let me know how I can be of help in the mean time! (You did mention needing help) Perhaps I could organize a fundraiser.Prayer for the AIDS walk
Great Spirit, whose voice we hear in the wind,
Whose breath gives life to all the world. Hear us!
We need your strength and wisdom.
Let us walk in oh so fabulous beauty, and make our eyes ever behold the rainbows in the skies and our bodies.
Make our hands honor the people you have made (preferably multiple times a day) and our ears sharp to hear your voice and the voices of those we walk for.
Make us wise so that we may understand the things you have taught us through the years.
Help us to remain calm and strong in the face of all that comes towards us. (yes even the gay drama)
Let us learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock along this great AIDS walk.
Help us seek sponsors aplenty, and act with the intention of helping others.
Help us find compassion without overwhelming empathy
We seek strength, not to be greater than others, but to fight AIDS and have a blast doing it! (and any of the hotties we “meat” along the way)
We ask this in the name of all who have gone before us, the nuns of the above and below, and whatever spiritual entities you may believe in!
Ahmen, Ahwomen, Ahhhwhatever!
Check it out, Equality Arizona's representative gettin chatty with the Sisters on TICOZ patio, now that is truly wonderful! Drinks, friends, mist raining down from above (piped in of course, it's not raining here) What could be better!?!
I know, an aspirant in a mickey hat!
