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FDG THE GAY ‘SISTER ACT’ ALMOST 30 YEARS LATER
Thkg back on the movie Sister Act — which first h theaters 28 years ago — you might thk the gayt thg about was the fact that Whoopi Goldberg plays a character wh the dragtastic name of Deloris Van Cartier. You wouldn’t be wrong, exactly, nor would you be rrect to pot out that the film’s eventual translatn to a Broadway mil also mak a ltle b gayer. I should ask the two other guys om my fifth-gra class who end up beg gay, too.
And sure, more than a few gay men have had fleetg fantasi about havg their own backup sgers, but that’s not where I’m gog wh this. That last part is the biggt victory, at least for ltle proto-gay kids who were watchg Sister Act a Catholic school classroom and feelg more like young Deloris at the begng of the movie. What do you thk mak Sister Act gay?
“As mostly queer and gay people, we’re ed to disappotment and thgs beg taken om . ” (Erik Carter / For The Tim) The orr was found San Francis 1979 as an irreverent joke by three gay men, but the group quickly pivoted to help their muny when the AIDS crisis stck, holdg the first fundraisers for AIDS anizatns and distributg the first safer-sex Sisters’ missn, as explaed on their webse: “We make people happy, stamp out guilt brought on by a judgmental society and help var anizatns and chari.