Hunky Jesus

Founded in 1979 to counter the rise of evangelical preachers in the world’s most famous queer pilgrimage city, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence remains a unique social justice movement. This riotous documentary shows the drag nuns battling at the coal face against a religious conservatism increasingly hell-bent on eroding human rights. It interweaves the 2023 annual free festival for the queer community, featuring reincarnations of The Cockettes and a variety of blasphemous cabaret for a cause, with chronicles of the Sisters’ history on the front line of the AIDS crisis, alongside some of their biggest direct actions, like 1987’s exorcism of Pope John Paul II. Anchored by some of their longest serving icons, including Sister Roma and founding member Grand Mother Vish-Knew – who are currently taking on Trump’s America – please kneel for these glorious freedom fighters and their crucial, sexy quest.

Zorian Clayton

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