The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – the controversial trans-queer group – will make their long-awaited appearance at the Dodgers’ Pride Night on Friday.
The group is preparing for a slew of protests at the game, but they are not shying away from the controversy.
“We’re here, we’re queer, so get used to it,” Sister Unity told USA Today.
The group was initially invited by the Dodgers, then uninvited, then re-invited within a few days after backlash on both sides.
Detractors have called the Sisters a “blatantly perverted, sexual, and disgusting anti-Catholic hate group.”
Dodgers ace and Cy Young candidate Clayton Kershaw voiced his frustration bringing the group to the stadium.
“I don’t agree with making fun of other people’s religions,” Kershaw said. “It has nothing to do with anything other than that. I just don’t think that, no matter what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else’s religion. So that’s something that I definitely don’t agree with.”
Still, the drag group will be honored with the Community Hero Award, despite objections from presidential candidates Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio, and former Mets pitcher Trevor Williams.
Unity typically wears orange, but on Friday, the Dodgers are set to play the orange-clad Giants.
“I always wear orange, for 27 years,” Sister Unity said. “However, orange is the Giants’ color.”
Rather than wear the color of the away team, Sister Unity created a special outfit for Friday’s game.
“It will be festooned with red ribbons to represent our service in fighting HIV/AIDS, and to support our community members fighting the disease in their own lives,” Sister Unity explained.
The Sisters do not use real names due to safety concerns and dress in heavy amounts of makeup and traditional black and white religious clothing that would resemble that of an actual nun.
The group was set to appear on May 17th, but the Dodgers organization pulled the invitation to honor the trans-nun group amid backlash from the catholic community, citing blasphemy.
“We honor and emulate Catholic nuns,” said Ken Bunch, 71, who helped co-found the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. “We honor the work they do in the community because we do the same thing. We’re just queer nuns.”
