[2] He was a prominent member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a gay activist group founded in San Francisco in 1979.
His persona's full name was Sister Rose of the Bloody Stains of the Sacred Robes of Jesus, which—when spoken—would trail into a sing-song cadence and a long fermata.
[7] After he started campaigning for mayor in the 1983 recall election against incumbent Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco passed an ordinance requiring candidates to use only their legal names on the ballot.
The exorcism was performed by the Sisters in Union Square on July 13, the Friday before the 1984 Democratic National Convention, before a crowd of about 2,000.
Moscone was mayor of San Francisco and Milk was the city's first openly gay supervisor.