Sister Roma

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name = Sister Roma, There's No Place Like Rome


caption = Sister Roma of the San Francisco Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. at San Francisco Pride 2007.
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birthname = Michael Williamscitation |title=Trash-TV tragedy makes for farce |first=Octavio |last=Roca |periodical=San Francisco Chronicle |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/25/DD127280.DTL |date=June 25, 2002 |accessdate=2008-01-01 ]
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Sister ROMA! There's No Place Like Rome or simply Sister Roma (born December 22, 1962) is a 20 year veteran member of San Francisco's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc [http://thesisters.org/bios/roma.html Sister Roma bio] thesisters.org (retrieved 2007-10-29)] [http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?sec=article&article_id=6280 Trash-TV tragedy makes for farce - 'Straight Men' a campy success] San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2002 (retrieved 2007-10-29)] and a social rights activist.cite web
last =Gray
first =Rebecca
title=NakedSword.com’s Cutting Edge
publisher=Adult Video News
date=September 01, 2004
url =http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=ED9FABF6-1372-4B41-C45EB1D33702F931&slid=174083
accessdate=2007-11-03] She is one of the best known members of the group with many believing she is likely the most visible.cite web
last =Bajko
first =Matthew S.
title=Political Notebook: SF archbishop in hot water
publisher=Bay Area Reporter
date=25 October 2007; Issue: Vol. 37 / No. 43 /
url =http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2340
accessdate=2007-10-28] cite web
title=The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence F.A.Q.: Where is Roma!?
publisher=Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
date=2007
url =http://thesisters.org/meet_faq.html
accessdate=2007-10-28] According to her bio page on the Sisters' website she joined in 1987 and was the first of the group to be publicly elevated and veiled.cite web
title=Meet The Sisters: Sister ROMA! There's No Place Like Rome
publisher=Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
date=2007
url =http://thesisters.org/bios/roma.html
accessdate=2007-10-28]

In 1991 Roma introduced the "STOP the Violence Campaign" to combat hate crimes throughout the city as well as on college campuses.cite web
last =Stein the Fragrant
first =Sister Phyllis
coauthors =Sister Kitty Catalyst, O.C.P
title=A Sistory Blow By Blow
publisher=Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
date=2007
url =http://thesisters.org/sistory.html
accessdate=2007-10-28]

Roma has done coverage of the GayVN Awards [ [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/25/DD127280.DTL Naked Sword And Porn Companies Give Back] San Francisco Bay Time, 5 April 2007 (retrieved 2007-10-29)] including serving as emcee for the 24 February 2007 awards held at San Francisco's Castro Theater.cite web
last =Van Iquity
first =Sister Dana
title=Kathy Griffin Spices Up GAYVN Porn Awards
publisher=San Francisco Bay Times
date=March 1, 2007
url =http://www.sfbaytimes.com/article_p.php?article_id=6165
accessdate=2007-11-03] Roma is also the Art director at gay pornography studio Hot House Entertainment [ [http://thesisters.org/bios/roma.html Sister Roma bio] thesisters.org (retrieved 2007-10-29)] and co-hosts an online live-format talk show about the adult pornography industry, "The Tim and Roma Show" with various guests and discussing film projects as well as events in the LGBT community and gay pornographic industry.cite web
last =Farrar
first =Charles
title=NakedSword.com Premieres The Tim and Roma Show
publisher=Adult Video News
date=Feb 27, 2004
url =http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=ED9E87D9-1372-4B41-C44457065BF4C943&slid=174083
accessdate=2007-11-03]

Roma has served as an emcee and celebrity judge for numerous community and charity events including; judge at the world's longest running (and possibly largest) drag king event, the San Francisco Drag King Contest;cite web
title= About Us: Sister Roma: Judge
publisher=SFDK12
date=August 2007
url =http://www.sfdragkingcontest.com/bios.html
accessdate=2007-10-27] cite web
last =Tudor
first =Silke
title=Night Crawler: Crown Performance
publisher=SF Weekly
date=July 19, 2000
url =http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-07-19/news/night-crawler/
accessdate=2007-07-27] cite web
last =Pearlstein
first =Joanna
title=Arty Fishal: King of Daytime TV
publisher=Curve
date=2003, Vol. 13 #3
url =http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-07-19/news/night-crawler/
accessdate=2007-07-27] ; judge for Will Clark's 2005 benefit "Porn Idol";cite web
last =Johnson
first =Peter
title=Will Clark San Francisco Fundraisers Near
publisher=Adult Video News
date=July 19, 2005
url =http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=EDA2579E-1372-4B41-C46EDF53A4FA5E3F&slid=174083
accessdate=2007-11-03] emcee at the world's largest BDSM/leather event and California's third largest spectator event, the Folsom Street Fair;cite web
last =Vaziri
first =Aidin
title=On The Town With Heklina: All the city's a stage for this drag queen
publisher=San Francisco Chronicle
date=October 22, 2006
url =http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/22/LVGI9LR7T11.DTL&hw=sister+roma&sn=011&sc=307
accessdate=2007-10-27] cite web
last =Dunt
first =Ian
title=Police adopt softly-softly approach on public orgies
publisher=Pink News
date=2nd October, 2007
url =http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-5622.html
accessdate=2007-10-27] emcee for the 2005 "Bad Boys by the Bay"; and Main Stage emcee at "San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade", the largest LGBT event in the United States;cite web
title=Official Guide and Program: Who's onstage
publisher=San Francisco Chronicle
date=June 22, 2001, page SP - 12
url =http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/22/DD163000.DTL&hw=sister+roma&sn=012&sc=288
accessdate=2007-10-27] cite web
last=Jones
first=Lindsey
title=About San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration & Parade
publisher=Pink News
date=February 27, 2007
url=http://www.sfpride.org/
accessdate=2007-10-27] emcee for "Super Heroes and Villains", Krewe de Kinque's Bal Masque benefit for Tenderloin Tessie's Holiday Dinners (serving Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners to homeless people of San Francisco);cite web
title=L'amour, l'amour
publisher=Bay Area Reporter
date=February 2007
url=http://www.ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=outabout&article=111 | accessdate=2007-10-27] cite web
last=Laird
first=Cynthia
title=Thanksgiving Meals, Events Offered
publisher=Bay Area Reporter
date=22 November 2007
url=http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2451
accessdate=2007-11-25] emcee at the annual San Francisco Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's public anniversaries often held in the city's parkscite web
last=Tudor
first=Silke
title=Truly, We Have Risen
publisher=San Francisco Weekly
date=April 14, 2004
url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2004-04-14/news/truly-we-have-risen/2
accessdate=2007-10-28] and emcee at the Free Speech Coalition's 19th annual "Night of The Stars" awards event held at Los Angeles' Center Studios.cite web
last =Albo
first =Mike
title='Night of the Stars' Is All Business
publisher=Adult Video News
date=July 16, 2006
url =http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=EDA57E9F-1372-4B41-C4FDD8670AD19FFB&slid=174083
accessdate=2007-11-03]

Roma also acts professionally as well as in more casual drag performances in clubs. In 2003 she appeared in Ronnie Larsen's "Sleeping With Straight Men" at Theatre Rhinoceros with Mink Stole.cite web
last=Hurwitt
first=Robert
title=Sleepwalking through a talk-show tragedy: Jenny Jones drama tends to nod off
publisher=San Francisco Chronicle
date=September 10, 2003
url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/10/DD47011.DTL&type=printable
accessdate=2007-10-27] . In Falcon Studio's 1997 film "High Tide" Roma appeared with drag star and porn producer Chi Chi LaRuecite web
title=High Tide, FVP112
publisher=Gay Erotic Video Index
date=2006
url=http://www.wtule.net/v2227.html
accessdate=2007-11-03] and in 2006 Roma was nominated for "Best Nonsexual Performance" Gay Adult Video News (GAYVN) award for her portrayal of Mona Lott, the maid of "Wet Palms" which is a ten episode gay porn soap opera series.cite web
last =Van Iquity
first =Sister Dana
title=Wet Palms Is A Sexy Yet Sappy Soap
publisher=San Francisco Bay Times
date=March 10, 2006
url =http://www.sfbaytimes.com/article_p.php?article_id=4750
accessdate=2007-11-03] She also has performed at San Francisco's longest running drag show Trannyshack.cite web
last=Provenzano
first=Jim
title=Tune, out
publisher=Bay Area Reporter
date=September 10, 2003
url=http://www.ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=outabout&article=161
accessdate=2007-10-27] cite web
last=Provenzano
first=Jim
title=Our weekly picks: What to do this week
publisher=San Francisco Bay Guardian
date=October 2007
url=http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4638&volume_id=317&issue_id=318&volume_num=42&issue_num=01&l=1
accessdate=2007-10-28]

Roma writes a bi-weekly column "Drag It" for San Franscisco's gay alternative magazine "Gloss".Citation
last=Roma
first=Sister
author-link=Sister Roma
title=Drag It
newspaper=Gloss
volume=6
issue=21
pages=30
year=2007
date=October 19-November 1, 2007
url=http://www.sfgloss.com ]

For the 24th annual Folsom Street Fair held September 30, 2007 the [http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/images/fsf_posters/FSF2007_poster_print_ns_800px.jpgofficial poster artwork] was a photo featuring well-known LGBT and BDSM community members in festive and fetish attire with Roma as Mary Magdalene "in an innovative version of the culturally iconographic" "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci complete with table draped with the Leather Pride flag and "cluttered with sex toys, whips, and various (BDSM)restraints".cite web
last =Gerstein
first =Josh
title=Catholic Group Threatens Battle With Miller Beer Over Racy Ad
publisher=New York Sun
date=September 27, 2007
url =http://www.nysun.com/article/63472
accessdate=2007-09-29] The artwork by FredAlertcite web
last =Cassell
first =Heather
title=Folsom art draws fire from the right
publisher=Bay Area Reporter
date=27 September 2007; Vol. 37, No. 39;
url =http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2230
accessdate=2007-09-29] was used on the official event guide as well as produced as collector's posters that were also posted throughout the city for advertising. Some conservative religious groups criticized this as anti-Christian and blasphemouscite web
title=Catholic Group Urges Boycott of Miller Brewing Co. Over San Francisco Fair Sponsorship
publisher=Fox News
date=September 27, 2007
url =http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298277,00.html
accessdate=2007-09-29] although parodies and homages of the Last Supper painting like Renée Cox's controversial Yo Mama's Last Supper are numerous.cite web
last =Savage
first =Dan
authorlink =Dan Savage
coauthors =
title= Other Last Suppers: Where’s the Outrage?
publisher=The Stranger (Seattle newspaper)
date=25 September 2007
url =http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/other_last_suppers_wheres_the_outrage
accessdate=2007-10-28]

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External links

* [http://thesisters.org/bios/roma.html Meet Sister Roma]
* [http://www.timandroma.com The Tim and Roma Show]