Sr. Merry Peter, SPI (She/Her/They/Them) found her vocation as a nun through the Radical Faeries in 1987, taking her vows around a campfire from Sister Missionary P. Delight a founder of the Order. Merry Peter (“MP” for short) served as a missionary in Toronto before moving to San Francisco in 1999.

Her life-long activism focuses on HIV-AIDS, queer youth, civil rights, and social justice. As a divinity student, she co-founded the first LGBT Student Union at the University of Toronto and led a successful national campaign that saw conversion therapy banned in Canada in 2023. She supports street-level health services to sex workers, transgender and gender non-conforming inclusion, legal aid for LGBTQIA2S+ refugees, and resistance to police violence.

In 2017 she joined Drag Out the Vote to protect voting rights and push queer people to organize, run, register, and vote in every election. As part of Drag Queen Story Hour she loves opening new worlds to children and does her best to confound fascists and bigots with her razor-sharp wit and withering shade.

Merry Peter is a poet, writer, and former sex-worker. As an ordained minister, she joined the fight for equal marriage in San Francisco in 2004 and regularly performs wedding and other life affirming ceremonies. She lives on the coast with her husband of 24 years.

Check-out the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and connect with Sr. Merry Peter on Instagram and Facebook.

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Diane Friday is a life-long LGBTQ ally who currently resides in Santa Cruz. Diane volunteers with the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter and is a board member for Rec4Vets which provides outdoor activities and healing connections for returning veterans. Diane is active with Planned Parenthood, The Trevor Project and Brady United Against Gun Violence. She recently returned from a humanitarian trip to Cuba delivering medicine and support to the Cuban people. Retired from her career at Alaska Airlines Flight Operations, Diane has begun a career as a write and looks forward to the imminent release of her first children’s book, Clean For A Day, which chronicles the hilarious goings on of her dog Ruby.

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Bonnie Violet is a Boise, Idaho-based trans femme genderqueer spiritual drag artist and digital chaplain. YouTuber & Host of a queer chaplain podcast, Drag & Spirituality, & TranSpirit. Creator & Co-host of Splintered Grace with her conservative Christian aunt, Cut & Uncut with Daphne & Bonnie Violet. & At the CCC recovery podcast. Founder of Allies Linked for the Prevention of HIV & AIDS, Drag & Spirituality Summit & chaplain. Bonnie shares her experience, strength, and hope living with HIV for 26 years, recovering from drugs, alcohol, and sexual assault for 16 years. She works in classrooms, community centers, churches, online and pretty much anywhere else she is invited. As a queer chaplain for nearly a decade, she is a Beacon of Love present with people in death and dying to self by helping to lace one’s narrative with a spiritual thread to remind one of their resilience, strengthen faith in self, create serenity in their now and instils hope for their future.

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Sister Kay Sera Sera (aka Sister KayThulu) serves the community as Web Mistress for TheSisters.org and helps organize the San Francisco Sisters' Grants program which awards thousands of dollars every year to grassroots activists and organizations. Living in the Bay Area since 1985, Kay joined the sisters in 2016. Her vocation reflects her lifelong values and desire to reach out to those in need, speak up for those who are neglected, be kind to those who grieve, respect and celebrate every wonderful morsel of joy and safety and faith and freedom, and always offer compassion to her fellow human beings. Kay lives in Noe Valley and has strong opinions about the Oxford comma.

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Sister Bubbles Bathory is a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who joined the Order to destigmatize Sexwork, uplift the community with recovery and harm reduction, raise awareness and increasing inclusion and accessibility for all in Kweer spaces and beyond. She lives her vows daily to expiate stigmatic guilt and promulgate Universal Joy. Connect with Sister Bubbles on Instagram and Facebook.

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Joe Terranova (He/Him) was the Operations Trainer at SFO for Alaska Airlines, where he worked for 36 years, until his retirement in 2020. He is a first-generation Californian, whose mother emigrated from Mexico, who grew up in the Sierras by Lake Tahoe. A long-time volunteer and advocate for environmental causes and native rights, he is also a strong advocate for youth and their campaign to end gun violence. He joined March for Our Lives, and supported Women’s March San Francisco, and protests defending immigrants and refugees, marriage equality, and trans youth. Most recently, he has become an avid birder and nature photographer. Married to Sr. Merry Peter for 24 years, Joe is an expert at herding easily distracted nuns and is the lead judge organizing the seamless operations of the entire team.

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Rev. Daniel Borysewicz (he/him/his) is a pastor and educator who welcomes all people regardless of their gender expression, sexual identity or kink preferences. He offers guidance, education, and activism for issues such as shame, substance abuse, and religious trauma. He leverages his cisgendered queerness to advance safe-sex education, anti-racism, gender- affirming healthcare activism and dismantling of heteronormativity and patriarchy. As the interim pastor of Metropolitan Community Church San Francisco (MCCSF), Daniel is a Beacon of Love affirming the inclusive love of God for all and celebrating the LGBTQI+ community’s diversity as a manifestation of a queer God. Living in the East Bay since 2009, Daniel and his partner of seven years recently moved to San Francisco. You can find out more about Daniel’s work and writings on overcoming shame at Leave Shame Behind.

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Tony Tung & Angie Lin are chef-owner and co-owner of Good To Eat, an Emeryville restaurant renowned for serving craft Taiwanese cuisine that reflects the inclusiveness of Taiwan’s rich multicultural influences, and the vibrant welcome of the queer community. Born and raised in Taiwan, both Tony and Angie were out activists in the women’s rights and LGBTQ+ movement before moving to the US. After cooking at pop-ups for five years, Tony and Angie opened Good To Eat in 2022, drawing on their immigrant experience to create a bustling kitchen that showcases the unique flavors and techniques of Taiwan and their queer identity to foster a safe workplace where staff can be themselves and grow careers in hospitality, and guests can enjoy an open-minded community rooted in radical welcome. The innovative menu has been featured in The New York Times and more recently on Check Please Bay Area with Leslie Sbrocco. Tony and Angie live in Emeryville with their two cats and are proud that Good to Eat has become a Beacon of Love filled with the diverse staff and regular diners they are proud to call their chosen family.

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