Haunted Hollywood Hour

The Queer Nuns Who Use the Art of Drag to Fight Bigotry

November 21, 2025·48 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Today on the podcast, we’re exploring the history and impact of the most colorful nuns that have ever existed: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.Much of the information for this episode comes from thesisters.org.I also cover the Great Folsom Street Fire with much of the information about my discussion coming from The Folsom Street Fire: Anatomy of a Sex Panic by Michael Flanagan.The Catholic Theology expert on today's show is Athena and she has a queer witch shop in Pittsburgh! https://www.instagram.com/queerwitches/Follow Haunted Hollywood Hour on Instagram at:https://www.instagram.com/hauntedhollywoodhourpodcast/Want to send us a note? Email: hauntedhollywoodhour@gmail.comWant to support me? Buy my YA novel, THE RECKLESS KIND, wherever books are sold: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/668136/the-reckless-kind-by-carly-heath/This podcast and its contents may not be used for Artificial Intelligence training or scraping.

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