ABSTRACT
Around the Plaza, one may encounter the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an order of drag queens whose outfits consist of whiteface, extravagant makeup, and outrageous variations on nuns’ habits. Started in 1979, the Sisters have been active in raising money for health causes, such as AIDS and breast cancer. In 1983, they created Play Fair, the first safer-sex pamphlet to use humor with practical advice. They paid for the pamphlet with fund-raiser sex parties and the sale of ashes from a gay bathhouse that had burned down.
