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Title
"Nun" showing support for Babs at Academy Awards
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1984
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
"The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a leading-edge Order of queer nuns. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty and we use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency and guilt that chain the human spirit."--Organization's web site.
A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence protests that Barbra Streisand's film "Yentl" was not nominated for major categories for the 56th Academy Awards. The "nun" is holding a collection can which reads, "Eddie Murphy Disease Fund." Streisand wrote, produced, directed and starred in the film, and her fans, who viewed the film as a major accomplishment, protested the Academy's minimal acknowledgment of it. The Awards ceremonies were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on April 9, 1984.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00082514
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b015_f3_i25
CARL0000081913
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25216
Subject
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Academy Awards (Motion pictures)
Cross-dressers--California--Los Angeles
Gays--California--Los Angeles
Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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