It is 3 in the afternoon on Easter Sunday, and Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco is packed with visitors.
A bit of an unusual scene for a day in 2022 — or any day since March 2020 — the park is full of visitors dressed in bling, bright colors or both, sipping on booze and grooving to the covers of Lady Gaga, Lizzo and Dua Lipa.
The music stops and the most awaited competitions of the day begin.
A fellow contestant in the Foxy Mary contest pretends to take a sip from a breast pump of a contestant dressed as “postpartum Mary” during the Sisters’ Easter at Dolores Park on Sunday. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News) 
Hundreds of attendees gather for the Sisters’ Easter celebration at Dolores Park on Sunday. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News) 
Kippy Marks performs “Fragrance of Joy” on Sunday during the Sisters’ Easter celebration at Dolores Park. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News) 
Sister Vish-Knew, a cofounder of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, dances as Carly Ozard sings Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” during the Sisters’ Easter. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News) 
Sister Mary Timothy Simplicity dances as Kippy Marks plays “You’re the Diamond in My Eye” during the Sisters’ Easter. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News) 
Julia Goetz, a San Francisco resident, cheers as Jaeson Trouble of the Rebel Kings of Oakland performs for Adele’s “Hello” during Sisters’ Easter celebration at Dolores Park. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News) 
Bionka Simone of the all-Black drag show “Reparations” performs during the Sisters’ Easter at Dolores Park. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News) 
Pope Dementia the Last gives a wave at the Sisters’ Easter celebration on Sunday. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News)
As a batch of six contestants enters the stage, and emcee Peaches Christ asks each contestant about their costume.
“All right, who are you?”
“I am Roller Disco Carpenter Jesus, he is risen and he is rolling,” as contestant answers, pointing at an elongated balloon sticking out of his crotch before rolling around the stage floor in his skates.
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He was one of the several other contestants depicting Jesus Christ in their own innovative ways hoping to win the Hunky Jesus Contest. Another crowd favorite was the Foxy Mary contest where contestants dressed anywhere between a “postpartum, breastmilk-pumping Mary” to a “mistress Mary.”
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence went back to their “old habits” to celebrate Easter along with their 43rd founding anniversary on Sunday, after missing two years of in-person celebrations because COVID-19. The organization was founded on Easter weekend in 1979.
“We survived, we stand for freedom and this is our coming-out party,” said Sister Vish-Knew, a cofounder of the organization.
According to Sister Vish-Knew, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence currently operate across 14 countries on four continents.
The celebrations started earlier in the day with Easter activities for children, followed by live entertainment featuring Kippy Marks, the Rebel Kings of Oakland, Carly Ozard and Nicki Jizz as well as the stars of “Reparations: An All-Black Drag Show.”
The Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests were the much-anticipated highlight of the event. In the end, a contestant identified as Black Woman Is God was crowned Hunky Jesus, while Transgender Maria de Guadalupe won Foxy Mary.