Sister Dana sez, “The good news is that Andry Romero has thankfully been released…”

By Sister Dana Van Iquity–

Sister Dana sez, “The good news is that Andry Romero has thankfully been released in a recent prisoner swap from El Salvador that was held on July 18, 2025. The bad news is that he is now stuck BACK in dangerous, anti-gay Venezuela!”

Just as a reminder, I will repeat that we SF Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SF SPI) had recently sainted Andry José Hernández Romero, who left Venezuela over a year ago to seek a better future in the United States. Andry’s newly SPI SF-sanctified name became Nuestro Sagrado Corazón de las Dos Coronas, which translates to “Our Sacred Heart of the Two Crowns.” More history: On May 23, 2024, this gay-persecuted artist had migrated with the hope of one day opening a beauty salon in the U.S., or making a living from one of his other passions: design and tailoring. But he, like hundreds of other Venezuelans (last count was 250 wrongfully detained), was kidnapped by ICE, and thrown into a terrifying El Salvador prison—a jail known for anti-LGBTQ violence, torture, and inhumane conditions. Andry had entered the U.S. legally in 2024, fleeing the aforementioned anti-LGBTQ hostility and maltreatment. After showing up for an appointment that the U.S. government had given him, The Terrible Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (previously used to wrongly incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II) and shipped him off to El Salvador on March 15 this year—even though his attorneys insisted then and now that he has no criminal record. Never. 

The positive news is that Andry is now free from the dangerous El Salvador gulag; however, the negative news is that he is NOT returned to the USA—but is back in the dangerously anti-gay Venezuela from which he had fled. Hernández Romero is the current lead plaintiff in a court case challenging the Trump administration’s illegal use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). In response to all this news, Immigrant Defenders Law Center decried the U.S. Government’s role in disappearing Venezuelan men under that AEA, celebrated the release of clients, and called for Due Process. Lindsay Toczylowski, President and CEO of Immigrant Defenders Law Center, stated on July 18: “We have been fighting to free Andry, our other clients, and all the men from CECOT for more than four months. We are incredibly relieved that it appears most of them have been freed from the torture prison the U.S. government sent them to, and potentially may be reunited with family soon. But as an American, and as a lawyer who believes deeply in the rule of law and due process, my heart remains heavy. What happened here is a dangerous travesty of justice. We have long known that the allegations that the men at CECOT were members of a dangerous gang were baseless. We know the Trump administration denied them due process and sent them to a prison notorious for abuse and torture. The Trump administration misled the public and our courts by claiming that the U.S. government was not in control of what happened to the men at CECOT, only to eventually—after 125 days—orchestrate a prisoner swap using human beings as pawns. So, while we are grateful they will not spend another night being tortured in El Salvador, we also grieve the ongoing and lasting damage being done to our democracy by an administration that is willing to violate our Constitution, U.S. asylum laws, and international law. While the Trump administration escalates their use of authoritarian practices meant to intimidate people into submission, we will keep fighting for justice for immigrants and for the future of our country.” Sister Dana sez, “Let’s not rest, and let’s keep up the FIGHT for justice and for the future of our democratic America!”

And now tyrannical Trump’s approval rating among Latino voters is in free-fall, as they realize that nobody is safe from his evil deportation agenda. A recent poll found that Trump is a massive 27 percentage points underwater among Hispanic voters, with 62% disapproving of the job Trump is doing, as opposed to the 35% who approve.

CBS-TV has shockingly announced that in May 2026 it is cancelling “THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT”—just three days after Colbert criticized on-air the recent sixteen-million-dollar settlement between Trump and Paramount Global, CBS’ parent company, when Stephen called that a “big, fat bribe.” This cancellation is deeply suspect: More than two million viewers tune in every night, making it the top-rated late-night show on air. And Colbert has been hosting this show for nearly a decade. This is a moment when we need all institutions—including media companies—to realize their role in resisting the corruption, abuse, and overreach of a federal government (especially this fascist one under Trump & Company). Media corporations have a duty to support independent voices without government interference. Unfortunately, that’s not what we’re seeing right now. Members of Congress, including Senator Adam Schiff and Senator Elizabeth Warren, have considered whether Colbert’s ongoing (and accurate) criticism of CBS’ settlement with Trump influenced the network’s decision. Meanwhile, monstrously mean-spirited Trump actually celebrated the announcement, stating on Truth Social, “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.” Sister Dana sez, “I would absolutely LOVE that Colbert continue to entertain and inform us—and I would absolutely LOVE that Trump get fired!”

Then, on July 22, Trump posted and boasted, “Jimmy Kimmel is next to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes, and shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone. It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!” Sister Dana sez, “So I guess Trump is now King of Cancel Culture!” He later said that MSNBC-TV News’ Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace, as well as Comedy Central TV’s Jon Stewart—all three being fierce critics of Trump and his awful administration—should be targeted next.

Regarding Alcatraz in San Francisco, former House Speaker and pro-SF values activist Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, had slammed what she said was a plan for Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi to announce the prison’s reopening. Critics had previously called the idea impossible, saying the facility is “totally inoperable.” “With stiff competition, the planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet,” Pelosi stated on July 16. “It should concern us all that clearly the only intellectual resources the Administration has drawn upon for this foolish notion are decades-old fictional Hollywood movies.” Meanwhile Burgum & Bondi did visit SF Alcatraz—with Trump soon to visit. They plan to utilize that and Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” in at least half a dozen more states with available prisons. Sister Dana sez, “You’d think a convicted felon like dumb Donald would avoid using the term ‘prison’ in any way possible!”

Heartless Trump has now directed federal agencies to find ways to make it easier to forcibly hospitalize homeless people with mental illness and addiction for longer periods—an effort to fight (essentially imprison and not do helpful harm reduction) what his unfeeling administration calls “vagrancy” threatening the streets of American cities. The executive order was issued as the Trump administration has slashed more than $1 billion in COVID-era grants administered by the SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION—and is proposing to lacerate hundreds of millions more in agency grants.

OASIS cabaret, 298 11th Street in SOMA SF, has sadly announced it will close on January 1, 2026, (but happily with a NEW YEAR’S EVE SPECTACULAR). Not coincidentally, Oasis opened on New Year’s Day 2015. OASIS’ diverse roster of programming includes local and visiting drag stars, cabaret and performing artists, live musical acts, amazing DJs, and more. Oasis owner, Artistic Director, and SF Drag Laureate D’Arcy Drollinger stated in an email to me, “Speaking frankly, the rising cost of operations, paired with declining attendance and sales, have put us in a financial loss for quite some time—and made sustaining Oasis, in its current form, untenable.” But, she added, “However, the spirit of Oasis lives on through [her queer-positive nonprofit organization] OASIS ARTS.”

The OASIS immersive musical parody, “JURRASIQ PARQ,” is currently running through August 13 at 298 11th Street, as well as other programming that is scheduled into the fall season. And don’t miss the 29th Annual SAN FRANCISCO DRAG KING CONTEST at Oasis on August 3, 7–9:30 pm! Bold, brazen, beautiful, and binary-bashing Drag Kings take center stage to compete and celebrate at the biggest, best, and longest-running Drag King Contest in the World. This year’s timely theme is “No Kings but Drag Kings.” The MCs will be Fudgie Frottage and Sister Roma.
https://www.sfoasis.com/

DORE “UP YOUR ALLEY” FAIR at SOMA was erotic fun on July 27—but a mere appetizer to the main course that will be served at FOLSOM STREET FAIR on September 28. Sister Dana sez, “Leather forever!”

Epstein Schmepstein! Those sex files are mere distractions from Presi-dunce Trump from all Trump’s many other faults. Never mind that DarnOld Trump (the bragging p#$$y-grabber) had raped more than 19 women, and still got elected the first time; and currently for the second time, after having been felony-convicted 34 times. He might even “like to go for a third term.” Put THAT in your files, folx!

Sister Dana sez, “It is now 6 months since Presi-dence Trump has been in office. So, I think we should bake this King of AmeriKKKa a lovely cream-filled Six-Month Anniversary Cake—and shove it in his face!”

Words of Wisdumb from a Fun Nun
Published on July 31, 2025