Sister Boom Boom has died, aged 57

Sister Boom Boom, 1984

Jack Fertig, one of the first Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, died on the evening of 5th August of liver cancer, aged 57. He died at home with his partner, Elias Trevino, and other members of his family at his side.

Jack Fertig speaking at a 9/11 memorial in 2010.
(Photo: Rick Gerharter)

A detailed obituary appears in San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter:

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67941
This is from The Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9478289/Jack-Fertig.html

Flickriver.com has a number of images tagged for Sister Boom Boom here:

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/addadada/tags/sisterboomboom/

More information:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Boom_Boom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_of_Perpetual_Indulgence

A previous post on this blog:

http://lgbthistoryproject.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence.html

The Sisters' website:

http://www.thesisters.org/index.php/sistory

The websites for the London & Manchester Orders:

http://www.londonsisters.org/

http://www.thesisters.demon.co.uk/ - although it appears to be abandonned (and not in a good way)

UPDATE 11/11/13: However, the Manchester Sisters did manage to upload a Polari translation of the Bible, which is now available from here:

http://www.polaribible.org/

If that has peaked your curiosity about Polari, this recent post might help:

http://lgbthistoryproject.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/polari-secret-gay-language.html

BTW - this is my

100th post

to the LGBT History Project Blog!