"By the time the main event started around noon, it felt like all of San Francisco was packed into the park, locked in for one of the city's wildest - and most meaningful - traditions: Easter in the Park with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Hunky Jesus is how we know it, but it's also a lot more."
""I am really proud of our theme this year," Sister Roma told me. "No Easter without the T. It's to show our solidarity with the trans community, which is under brutal attack right now." "The transgender community has been at the forefront of queer liberation," added Roma. "From the Compton's Cafeteria riots to Stonewall - there is no LGB without the T.""
"Hosted by Roma, Honey Mahogany, and Alex U Inn, the event featured fiery speeches, including out gay State Senator Scott Wiener, who declared, "I love this event because this represents everything they hate!" "Rainbow energy is brighter than life itself," proclaimed Sister Shelita Corndog during the opening prayer. "Free stolen immigrants and all of us who Trump would disappear." She ended with a directive: "Unleash our joy!""
Easter in Dolores Park drew massive crowds for Hunky Jesus, combining irreverent pageantry with urgent political solidarity. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence centered the theme "No Easter without the T" to affirm support for the transgender community amid intensified attacks from the Trump administration. Speakers invoked queer history and called for resistance, while State Senator Scott Wiener and performers called for joy as protest. The event mixed fiery speeches, prayers for immigrants and marginalized people, and celebratory performance, turning a long-standing holiday spectacle into an explicitly political, communal act of defiance and affirmation for queer and trans lives.
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