Sister Boom-Boom

Sister Boom Boom, the drag nun persona of astrologer Jack Fertig,cite news
title = Boom Town: San Francisco Cracks Down
publisher = Time Magazine
date = Apr. 11, 1983
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923498,00.html
accessdate = 2007-10-28 ] was one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who has since retired from the group.

In 1982, she ran for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on the "Nun of the Above" ticket with agitprop campaigning tactics bringing humor and raising issues she felt were being ignored in the race. She received 23,124 votes with her occupation listed as "Nun of the Above" but did not win. After she started campaigning for mayor in 1983 against incumbent Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco passed a law requiring candidates to use only their legal names on the ballot. This was commonly called the "Sister Boom Boom law". She is one of the characters in Emily Mann's play "Execution of Justice" about the trial of Dan White for the assassinations of the city’s first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, and Mayor George Moscone who were killed in 1978. [cite news
last = Nolte
first = Carl
title = CITY HALL SLAYINGS, 25 Years Later: Revisiting the horror of that day of death; for those who are old enough, the memory is searing
publisher = San Francisco Chronicle
date = 2003-11-26
url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/26/MNGF33B0R31.DTL
accessdate = 2006-12-10 ] In the Broadway production she was played by Wesley Snipes.cite news |url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&res=9A0DE3D8113FF937A25750C0A960948260&oref=slogin |title=Stage: Emily Mann's 'Execution of Justice' |last=Gussow |first=Mel |date=1986-03-14 |work=The New York Times]

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* [http://www.thesisters.org/sistory.html Sistory of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence]
* [http://www.starjack.com/ Jack Fertig Astrology]