Sister Roma was born on the 22nd of December in 1962. She is a humble 20 year veteran member of San Francisco’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc. According to her biography page on the Sisters website she joined in 1987 and was the first of the group to be publicly elevated and veiled. In 1991, Sister Roma introduced the STOP the Violence Campaign to combat hate crimes throughout the city as well as on college campuses. She has been a social right activist ever since.
Sister Roma has done coverage of the GayVN Awards and served as emcee for the awards held at San Francisco’s Castro Theater on the 24th of February in 2007. Sister Roma is also the art director at gay adult movie studio named “Hot House Entertainment”. She co-hosts an online live-format talk show about the adult movie industry named “The Tim and Roma Show” with a large range of guests. The Tim and Roma Show discuss film projects as well as events in the LGBTQ community and the news within the gay adult movie industry.
Sister Roma has served as an emcee and celebrity judge for countless community and charity event including: Judge at the world’s longest running and possibly largest drag king event named the San Francisco Drag King Contest; Judge for Will Clark’s 2005 benefit Adult Movie Idol; Emcee at the world’s largest BDSM and leather event; California’s third largest spectator event the Folsom Street Fair; Emcee for the 2005 Bad Boys by the Bay; Main Stage emcee at San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade which is the largest LGBT event in the United States; Emcee for Super Heroes and Villains Krewe de Kinque’s Bal Masque benefit for Tenderloin Tessie’s Holiday Dinners (serving Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners to homeless people of San Francisco); Emcee at the annual San Francisco Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s public anniversaries often held in the city’s parks and emcee at the Free Speech Coalition’s 19th annual Night of The Stars awards event held at Los Angeles’ Centre Studios.
Sister Roma also acts professionally as well as in more casual drag performances in clubs. In 2003 she appeared in Ronnie Larsen’s “Sleeping with Straight Men“ at Theatre Rhinoceros with Mink Stole. In Falcon Studio’s 1997 film “High Tide Roma” appeared with drag star and adult movie producer Chi Chi LaRue. In 2006 Sister Roma was nominated for Best Nonsexual Performance Gay Adult Video News (GAYVN) award for her portrayal of Mona Lott, the maid of Wet Palms which is a ten episode gay adult movie soap opera series. She also has performed at San Francisco’s longest running drag show Trannyshack. Sister Roma writes a bi-weekly column Drag It for San Franscisco’s gay alternative magazine Gloss.
For the 24th annual Folsom Street Fair held on the 30th of September in 2007 the official poster artwork featured a photo of the well-known LGBT and BDSM community members. They were clothed in festive and fetish attire alongside Sister Roma who dressed as Mary Magdalene. This event was said to be an innovative version of the culturally iconographic of the famous “Last Supper” painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The photograph was complete with table draped with a Leather Pride flag, cluttered with sex toys, whips, and various BDSM restraints. The artwork by FredAlert was used on the official event guide as well as produced as collector’s posters that were posted throughout the city for advertising. Some conservative religious groups criticized this as anti-Christian and blasphemous event. Even though numerous parodies and homages of the Last Supper painting are readily available like Renée Cox’s controversial Yo Mama’s Last Supper.
Sister Roma’s Filmography credits include:
Videos
- 2007 Grunts: Misconduct – Armed force life is unpleasant and to a great degree there is a lot of work to do. Sergeants bark demands and anticipate that they are to be followed just as strictly as they are given. As the Grunts are prepared to be fighters, down time turns out to be increasingly essential. Kinship comes into full play on the war zone. Their friendships are fortified in the couple of minutes of rest. What happens when the sergeants aren’t around? How do the men let off their sexual steam?
- 2007 Santo Domingo – Santo Domingo is an adult movie made by Raging Stallion Studios and Colin O’Neal Productions that takes you through the exotic jungle of men of the world.
- 1997 High Tide – There is a beautiful man in Hawaii who has everything. He has a wonderful home, a job and girlfriend. He has everything going for him. Though he finds a lost love. Starring Falcon Exclusive Superstar Tom Chase and Matthew Anders.
Received Special Thanks
- 2005 Arabesque – An award winning gay adult movie by Raging Stallion Studios. This adult movie stars Huessein, François Sagat, Manuel Torres, Sarib, Ivan Andros, Joey Milano, Joey Russo, and J.C. It has won two GavVN awards for Best Group Scene and Best Music. It has also won three Grabby Awards including Best all-sex Video, Best DVD Extras & Best Group-sex Scene.
Documentaries
- 2016 Dragged – A documentary crew follows the lives of drag queens, staring Sister Roma’s real life.
- 2014 Folsom Forever – In 1984, San Francisco was the home for gay men and leather. Their community was faced with demolition as they also handled the AIDS crisis. They community hosted a Folsom Street Fair to raise funding for their AIDS charities. This documentary follows the lives of people within the community including Sister Roma and how they inspired their community to become one of the biggest outdoor kink and fetish events.
- 2005-2006 Wet Palms TV Series – In the Wet Palms bedroom of Peter Dune, a previous nightclubbing lover who is also a men’s underwear model. Peter gave up his old lifestyle for his new partner named Tucker Bang. Tucker’s, a kind hearted writer who’s works at gay talk magazine “JettSetter”. The distributor of Jetsetter is attempted to get into Peter’s pants.
- Party of the Year (2006) Stars Sister Roma
- Separate Lives (2005) Stars Sister Roma
- Family Reunion: Part 2 (2005) Stars Sister Roma
- 1999 Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities – Monika Treut investigates trans-gendered people’s opinions living in the society and their worldly views. Likewise with Treut’s first film “Jungfrauenmaschine”, Gendernauts enters a minority area of San Francisco culture. The people in this film are individuals whose born gender does not reflect their social identity.
Come see Sister Roma for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on the 3rd of march at Park Street Books, Level 2/44 Park Street Sydney.