Dolores Park filled with thousands for Easter in the Park with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a Hunky Jesus celebration and political demonstration. The event highlighted solidarity with the transgender community amid intensified federal attacks since 2025. Performers and speakers framed the gathering as defiant, joyful protest rooted in queer liberation history from Compton's Cafeteria to Stonewall. Hosts and participants delivered fiery speeches celebrating rainbow energy, inclusion, and resistance. The crowd was exuberant but peaceful, with cannabis present due to 4/20 coincidence. Organizers used pageantry and prayer to amplify trans visibility and counter efforts to erase trans people from public life.
By the time the main event started around noon, it felt like all of San Francisco was packed into the park, locked in for one of the city's wildest and most meaningful traditions: Easter in the Park with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Hunky Jesus is how we know it, but it's also a lot more. I am really proud of our theme this year, Sister Roma told me.
Hosted by Roma, Honey Mahogany, and Alex U Inn, the event featured fiery speeches, including out gay State Senator Scott Wiener, who declared, I love this event because this represents everything they hate! Rainbow energy is brighter than life itself, proclaimed Sister Shelita Corndog during the opening prayer. Free stolen immigrants and all of us who Trump would disappear. She ended with a directive: Unleash our joy!
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