Seeing red
Sister Shea Hung-Ho, left, says the DFW Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are here to help The DFW Sisters ready for its annual Red Dress Party benefit event RICH LOPEZ | Staff writer rich@dallasvoice.com The 1980s were a landmark decade.
It was then that the queer community — furious over and fed up with how the mainstream world was ignoring AIDS — responded to the deadly epidemic with a vengeance, and proudly embracing visibility and activism — from newspapers to community centers.
Perhaps no group was more proud, out, visible and active than the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Dressed as nuns, with stark white makeup and irreverent monikers, the Sisters held their inaugural Red Dress party on May Day in 1982 at San Francisco’s White Russian Hall.
That tradition has, through the years, perpetuated and spread — appropriately enough — to SPI’s other chapters, including the DFW Sisters.
