*Event is free and does not require RSVP.
Come experience the Sister’s Flag Festival, a fun social art intervention with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The theme of the 2022 WeHo Pride rings out “With Liberty, Diversity, Inclusion and Progress for All”. The Sisters will delight you as they work their butts off to erase shame and stigma and lovingly help you to claim your LGBTQIA+ identity by choosing from a myriad of their spectacular LGBTQIA+ color guard flags (or bring your own!) and create your personalized made-up mad cap mad lib Pledge of Allegiance. The Sisters will record content for you for your Pride media posts with Sisters, your Flags & your pledge.
The color guard flags available for playing with are (in alphabetical order) Agender, Asexual, Bear Brotherhood, Bisexual, Black, Indigenous and People of Color Pride, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, Intersex, Leather Pride, Lesbian, Labrys Lesbian, LGBT six color rainbow, Non-binary, Original Eight Color Rainbow, Pansexual, Progressive Pride & Transgender. Each flag will be carried by a person who pledges allegiance to that flag so they can discuss it with people they encounter as they interact with the public on the way to the reading event. The West Hollywood Pride Festival goers will have opportunities to create their own pledges of allegiance to their own flags. Members of the Write Out Proud writing workshop will also be on hand to help people with the Pledge of Allegiance mad libs writing. An additional focus of this social art intervention project is to focus on our individual experiences, specifically how the representation of the classifications of the different LGBTQIA+ pride flags points to our stories of personal identity, growth, and freedom all accomplished looking through the lens of the hilarious and glamorous Los Angeles Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an international Order of 21st Century Nuns dedicated to the promulgation of universal joy and the expiation of stigmatic guilt. Their ministry is one of public manifestation and habitual perpetration. More simply put they make people happy, stamp out guilt brought on by a judgmental society and help various organizations and charities. They strive to strengthen community through drag activism and work to unite the various factions of the Southern California LGBTQIA community being committed to social activism and service to support freedom of expression and diversity. The Sisters are open to every gender, race, romantic alignment, sexual proclivity, class, species, phylum & beverage preference.
This program is supported by a grant from the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division as part of the City's WeHo Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival (May 22 - June 30). More info at https://pride.weho.org.
