Transvestite nuns, public nudity: Most Holy Redeemer parish will participate again in “Gay Pride Weekend”

June 10, 2008

San Francisco’s Pride Weekend will once again include the participation of the AIDS Support Group at Most Holy Redeemer parish in San Francisco’s Castro District.

An announcement in the parish’s June 1 bulletin sought volunteers to help the support group staff a “major Beverage Booth in Civic Center (next to the main stage)” on Saturday, June 28, the first day of the homosexual “Pride Weekend.”

This is not the first year either Most Holy Redeemer or its AIDS Support Group has participated in “Pride Weekend.” In previous years, members of Most Holy Redeemer, carrying a parish banner, have marched in the Pride Parade – an event that features floats and marchers celebrating everything from homosexual marriage to bisexuality to polyamory. Footage of the 2005 and 2006 parades show, among parade participants, examples of public nudity (women with bared breasts, men with buttocks showing), a person dressed as a phallus, and a contingent of the transvestite group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The footage also shows contingents from both Most Holy Redeemer and St. Agnes parish (a San Francisco church which, on its web site, calls itself: “Inclusive – Diverse – Jesuit.”). the rest