Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:01:42 -0800
From: Aubrey Hart Sparks <aubrey@leatherdaddy.com>
Subject: Press Release


For immediate release:

In Seattle, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Abbey of St. Joan, and friends
will be holding a `CAGE-IN', in support of the City of San Francisco's Board of
Supervisors decision to up hold the permit for the S.F.Easter Celebration,
starting about noon and lasting several hours.  Sr. Caddie Lac DeVil, Secretary
of the Abbey along with others, including Washington State Ms. Leather Eileen
Fix, will be in the Cage of Seattle Leatherman, Aubrey Hart Sparks, on Easter
Sunday, in support of the decision and to protest the Catholic Church's stand
against the Gays and Lesbians of San Francisco.  This event can be viewed
on-line at THE CAGE located at www.leatherdaddy.com.  Viewers can participate
via e-mail that will be posted on-line as part of the event and can e-mail the
City of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors to show support for the president
they set for the rest of our cities.

On Easter Sunday 1979, three men dressed in Nun's habits set out to promulgate
Universal joy and to Expiate stigmatic Guilt.  Twenty years later this small
group has spread world wide and those three Nuns and the new converts have
raise over $200,00 in the Bay area for AIDS and human rights.  So fitting of
the work of this organization, they have earned a bit of a celebration, so on
Easter Sunday The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) planed to throw a block
party to thank those who have supported them over the past twenty years.  The
Arch diocese of San Francisco tried to oppress the festivities by demanding the
city board of supervisors pull the permit that allowed the Sisters there
constitutional right to assembly. Calling the Sisters Party akin to letting the
Neo-Nazis hold a rally on Passover they claimed the Sisters were mocking the
church on their most holy day.  This past week the board of supervisors in a
9-2 vote upheld the permit for the Sisters anniversary. An official statement
from the San Francisco SPI Chapter on the event can be found at
www.thesisters.org.  The response of the of a even further right sect of the
Catholic Church called for a boycott of the City of San Francisco.  So if the
Catholics are standing against the city it is time the Gay and lesbian
communities join together in support of the city that stood by our
constitutional rights.  This year make your summer vacation to the gay
supportive city of San Francisco.

More information on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Abby of St. Joan, can
be found on their web site at www.theabbey.org