just before the start of the game. The Sisters have long provided resources for vulnerable people within the LGBTQ community, including AIDS education, safe sex resources and help for people in need, particularly those living with HIV.
The protest was organized by Catholics for Catholics, a conservative, Republican-aligned religious nonprofit that appears to have been founded in 2022.
Critics of the event claim the Sisters are “anti-Catholic,” though journalists on the scene report that many protest attendees appear to simply oppose LGBTQ rights generally.
According to LA Magazine, members of the extremist right wing Proud Boys appear to have shown up. Also on hand, former LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, and right wing activist Jack Posobiec, who is well documented to hold White Supremacist views.The Sisters deny that they are anti-Catholic. “The idea of being a fake nun is also a little problematic, mostly because we do take vows of service to the LGBTQ community for nonprofit work and it is the kind of vow that you take for the rest of your life, so it is very similar to the kind of care work a nun would do,” said Sister Electra-Complex, a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, in an interview with ABC7 News.