Papal Bond: Official 1987 San Francisco Papal Welcoming Committee
Sister Chanel 2001 [Gilbert Baker], Sister Sadie, the Rabbi LadySan Francisco: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, 1987.
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21.5cm x 28cm. Single sheet, printed certificate with gold seal.
Rainbow flag designer Gilbert Baker’s mock papal bond, issued to fund queer protest against the 1987 papal visit to San Francisco. Baker was a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the order of drag nuns founded in San Francisco in 1979, who greeted Pope John Paul II in September 1987 with a public exorcism in Union Square. This bond is dated 28 June 1987, the day of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day Parade, presumably where it was issued to raise funds for the protest.
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AU$250