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'''Sister Roma''' (born December 22, 1962 as Michael Williams) is an American ] performer, social rights activist, and producer of gay pornography. She is a twenty-year veteran member of ]'s ] Inc.<ref name="Bio"> thesisters.org (retrieved 2007-10-29)</ref><ref name="SFC">{{citation |first=Octavio |last=Roca |url=http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?sec=article&article_id=6280 |title=Trash-TV tragedy makes for farce - 'Straight Men' a campy success |periodical= |date=25 June 2002 |accessdate=2007-10-29 }}</ref><ref name="NakedSword.com’s Cutting Edge">{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Rebecca |title=NakedSword.com’s Cutting Edge |publisher] |date=September 1, 2004 |url=http://www.avn.com/video/articles/17639.html |accessdate=2007-11-03 }}</ref> According to her bio page on the Sisters' website she joined in ] and was the first of the group to be publicly elevated and veiled.<ref name="Meet The Sisters: Sister ROMA">{{cite web '''Sister Roma - There's No Place Like Rome!''', usually shortened to '''Sister Roma!''' (born December 22, 1962) is an American ] performer, social rights activist, and art director of gay pornography. She is a twenty-year veteran member of San Francisco's ] Inc.<ref name="Bio"> thesisters.org (retrieved 2007-10-29)</ref><ref name="SFC">{{citation |first=Octavio |last=Roca |url=http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?sec=article&article_id=6280 |title=Trash-TV tragedy makes for farce - 'Straight Men' a campy success |periodical= |date=25 June 2002 |accessdate=2007-10-29 }}</ref><ref name="NakedSword.com’s Cutting Edge">{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Rebecca |title=NakedSword.com’s Cutting Edge |publisher] |date=September 1, 2004 |url=http://www.avn.com/video/articles/17639.html |accessdate=2007-11-03 }}</ref> According to her bio page on the Sisters' website she joined in 1987 and was the first of the group to be publicly elevated and ]ed.<ref name="Meet The Sisters: Sister ROMA">{{cite web | title=Meet The Sisters: Sister ROMA! There's No Place Like Rome | publisher=]
| year=2007 | url =http://thesisters.org/bios/roma.html | accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref>
| title=Meet The Sisters: Sister ROMA! There's No Place Like Rome
| publisher=]
| year=2007
| url =http://thesisters.org/bios/roma.html
| accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref>


==Career== ==Career==


Roma is the ] at gay pornography studio ]<ref name="Bio"/> and co-hosts an online live-format talk show about the adult pornography industry, ''The Tim and Roma Show'' with various guests and discussing film projects as well as events in the ] community and gay pornographic industry.<ref name="Meet The Sisters: Sister ROMA"/><ref name="NakedSword.com Premieres The Tim">{{cite web Roma is the ] at gay pornography studio ]<ref name="Bio"/> and co-hosts an online live-format talk show about the adult pornography industry, ''The Tim and Roma Show'' with various guests and discussing film projects as well as events in the ] community and gay pornographic industry.<ref name="Meet The Sisters: Sister ROMA"/><ref name="NakedSword.com Premieres The Tim">{{cite web | last =Farrar | first =Charles | title=NakedSword.com Premieres The Tim and Roma Show
| publisher=] | date=February 27, 2004
| last =Farrar
| first =Charles
| title=NakedSword.com Premieres The Tim and Roma Show
| publisher=]
| date=February 27, 2004
| url =http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=ED9E87D9-1372-4B41-C44457065BF4C943&slid=174083 | url =http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=ED9E87D9-1372-4B41-C44457065BF4C943&slid=174083
| accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref> | accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref>


Roma has done coverage of the ]<ref name="SFC" /><ref> San Francisco Bay Time, 5 April 2007 (retrieved 2007-10-29)</ref> including serving as emcee for the 24 February 2007 awards held at San Francisco's ].<ref name="Kathy Griffin Spices Up GAYVN Porn Awards">{{cite web Roma has done coverage of the ]<ref name="SFC" /><ref> San Francisco Bay Time, 5 April 2007 (retrieved 2007-10-29)</ref> including serving as emcee for the February 2007 awards held at San Francisco's ].<ref name="Kathy Griffin Spices Up GAYVN Porn Awards">{{cite web | last =Van Iquity | first =Sister Dana | title=Kathy Griffin Spices Up GAYVN Porn Awards | publisher=] | date=March 1, 2007 | url =http://www.sfbaytimes.com/article_p.php?article_id=6165| accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref>
| last =Van Iquity
| first =Sister Dana
| title=Kathy Griffin Spices Up GAYVN Porn Awards
| publisher=]
| date=March 1, 2007
| url =http://www.sfbaytimes.com/article_p.php?article_id=6165
| accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref>


]'s 28th Anniversary Celebration and community fundraiser held in ]'s ] includes the popular "Hunky Jesus competition" shown here emceeded by Sister Dana Van Iquity and Sister Roma - There's No Place Like Rome! <small>photo: Jere</small>]]
Roma has served as an emcee and celebrity judge for numerous community and charity events including; judge at the world's longest running (and possibly largest) ] event, the San Francisco Drag King Contest;<ref name="About Us: Sister Roma: Judge">{{cite web Roma has served as an emcee and celebrity judge for numerous community and charity events including; judge at the world's longest running (and possibly largest) ] event, the San Francisco Drag King Contest;<ref name="About Us: Sister Roma: Judge">{{cite web
| title= About Us: Sister Roma: Judge | title= About Us: Sister Roma: Judge | publisher=SFDK12 | month=August | year=2007
| url =http://www.sfdragkingcontest.com/bios.html | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref><ref name="Night Crawler: Crown Performance">{{cite web | last =Tudor | first =Silke
| publisher=SFDK12
| title=Night Crawler: Crown Performance | publisher=] | date=July 19, 2000 | url =http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-07-19/news/night-crawler/
| month=August | year=2007
| url =http://www.sfdragkingcontest.com/bios.html
| accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref><ref name="Night Crawler: Crown Performance">{{cite web
| last =Tudor
| first =Silke
| title=Night Crawler: Crown Performance
| publisher=]
| date=July 19, 2000
| url =http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-07-19/news/night-crawler/
| accessdate=2007-07-27}}</ref><ref name="Arty Fishal: King of Daytime TV">{{cite web | accessdate=2007-07-27}}</ref><ref name="Arty Fishal: King of Daytime TV">{{cite web
| last =Pearlstein | first =Joanna | title=Arty Fishal: King of Daytime TV | last =Pearlstein | first =Joanna | title=Arty Fishal: King of Daytime TV
| publisher=] | date=2003, Vol. 13 #3 | publisher=] | date=2003, Vol. 13 #3 | url =
| accessdate=2007-07-27}}</ref>; judge for ]'s 2005 benefit ''Porn Idol'';<ref name="Will Clark San Francisco">{{cite web | last =Johnson | first =Peter
| url =
| title=Will Clark San Francisco Fundraisers Near | publisher=]
| accessdate=2007-07-27}}</ref>; judge for ]'s 2005 benefit ''Porn Idol'';<ref name="Will Clark San Francisco">{{cite web
| date=July 19, 2005 | url =http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=EDA2579E-1372-4B41-C46EDF53A4FA5E3F&slid=174083
| last =Johnson | first =Peter | title=Will Clark San Francisco Fundraisers Near
| accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref> emcee at the world's largest ]/leather event and California's third largest spectator event, the ];<ref name="On The Town With Heklina: All">{{cite web | last =Vaziri | first =Aidin | title=On The Town With Heklina: All the city's a stage for this drag queen | publisher=]
| publisher=] | date=July 19, 2005
| date=October 22, 2006 | url =http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/22/LVGI9LR7T11.DTL&hw=sister+roma&sn=011&sc=307
| url =http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=EDA2579E-1372-4B41-C46EDF53A4FA5E3F&slid=174083
| accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref> emcee at the world's largest ]/leather event and California's third largest spectator event, the ];<ref name="On The Town With Heklina: All">{{cite web
| last =Vaziri | first =Aidin | title=On The Town With Heklina: All the city's a stage for this drag queen | publisher=] | date=October 22, 2006
| url =http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/22/LVGI9LR7T11.DTL&hw=sister+roma&sn=011&sc=307
| accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref><ref name="Police adopt softly-softly">{{cite web | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref><ref name="Police adopt softly-softly">{{cite web
| last =Dunt | first =Ian | title=Police adopt softly-softly approach on public orgies | last =Dunt | first =Ian | title=Police adopt softly-softly approach on public orgies
| publisher=Pink News | date= 2 October 2007 | publisher=Pink News | date= 2 October 2007 | url =http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-5622.html
| url =http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-5622.html
| accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref> emcee for the 2005 ''Bad Boys by the Bay'';<ref name="Will Clark San Francisco"/> and Main Stage emcee at ''] ] ] and ]'', the largest LGBT event in the United States;<ref name="Official Guide and Program: Who'">{{cite web | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref> emcee for the 2005 ''Bad Boys by the Bay'';<ref name="Will Clark San Francisco"/> and Main Stage emcee at ''] ] ] and ]'', the largest LGBT event in the United States;<ref name="Official Guide and Program: Who'">{{cite web
| title=Official Guide and Program: Who's onstage | publisher=] | title=Official Guide and Program: Who's onstage | publisher=]
| date=June 22, 2001, page SP - 12 | url =http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/22/DD163000.DTL&hw=sister+roma&sn=012&sc=288 | date=June 22, 2001, page SP - 12 | url =http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/22/DD163000.DTL&hw=sister+roma&sn=012&sc=288
| accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref><ref name="About San Francisco LGBT Pride">{{cite web | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref><ref name="About San Francisco LGBT Pride">{{cite web
| last=Jones | first=Lindsey | title=About San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration & Parade | publisher=Pink News | date=February 27, 2007 | url=http://www.sfpride.org/ | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref> 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);<ref name="L'amour, l'amour">{{cite web | title=L'amour, l'amour | publisher=] | month=February | year=2007 | url=http://www.ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=outabout&article=111 | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref><ref name="Thanksgiving Meals">{{cite web
| last=Jones | first=Lindsey | title=About San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration & Parade
| last=Laird | first=Cynthia | title=Thanksgiving Meals, Events Offered
| publisher=Pink News | date=February 27, 2007 | url=http://www.sfpride.org/
| publisher=] | date=22 November 2007
| accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref> 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);<ref name="L'amour, l'amour">{{cite web
| url=http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2451
| title=L'amour, l'amour
| accessdate=2007-11-25}}</ref> emcee at the annual San Francisco ]'s public anniversaries often held in the city's parks<ref name="Truly, We Have Risen">{{cite web | last=Tudor | first=Silke | title=Truly, We Have Risen
| publisher=]
| publisher=] | date=April 14, 2004
| month=February | year=2007
| url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2004-04-14/news/truly-we-have-risen/2
| url=http://www.ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=outabout&article=111 | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref><ref name="Thanksgiving Meals">{{cite web
| accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref> and emcee at the Free Speech Coalition's 19th annual ''Night of The Stars'' awards event held at Los Angeles' Center Studios.<ref name="Night of the Stars">{{cite web | last =Albo | first =Mike | title='Night of the Stars' Is All Business | publisher=] | date=July 16, 2006
| last=Laird
| first=Cynthia
| title=Thanksgiving Meals, Events Offered
| publisher=]
| date=22 November 2007
| url=
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2451
| accessdate=2007-11-25}}</ref> emcee at the annual San Francisco ]'s public anniversaries often held in the city's parks<ref name="Truly, We Have Risen">{{cite web
| last=Tudor | first=Silke | title=Truly, We Have Risen | publisher=]
| date=April 14, 2004 | url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2004-04-14/news/truly-we-have-risen/2
| accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref> and emcee at the Free Speech Coalition's 19th annual ''Night of The Stars'' awards event held at Los Angeles' Center Studios.<ref name="Night of the Stars">{{cite web
| last =Albo | first =Mike | title='Night of the Stars' Is All Business
| publisher=] | date=July 16, 2006
| url =http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=EDA57E9F-1372-4B41-C4FDD8670AD19FFB&slid=174083 | url =http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=EDA57E9F-1372-4B41-C4FDD8670AD19FFB&slid=174083
| accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref> | accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref>


Roma also acts professionally as well as in more casual drag performances in clubs. In 2003 she appeared in ]'s ''Sleeping With Straight Men'' at ] with ].<ref name="Sleepwalking through a talk-show">{{cite web Roma also acts professionally as well as in more casual drag performances in clubs. In 2003 she appeared in ]'s ''Sleeping With Straight Men'' at ] with ].<ref name="Sleepwalking through a talk-show">{{cite web
| last=Hurwitt | first=Robert | title=Sleepwalking through a talk-show tragedy: Jenny Jones drama tends to nod off | publisher=] | last=Hurwitt | first=Robert | title=Sleepwalking through a talk-show tragedy: Jenny Jones drama tends to nod off | publisher=] | date=September 10, 2003 | url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/10/DD47011.DTL&type=printable
| date=September 10, 2003 | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/10/DD47011.DTL&type=printable | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref>. In Falcon Studio's 1997 film ''High Tide'' Roma appeared with drag star and porn producer ]<ref name=" | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref>. In Falcon Studio's 1997 film ''High Tide'' Roma appeared with drag star and porn producer ]<ref name="
High Tide, FVP112">{{cite web | title=High Tide, FVP112 | publisher=] High Tide, FVP112">{{cite web | title=High Tide, FVP112 | publisher=] | year=2006 | url=http://www.wtule.net/v2227.html
| year=2006 | url=http://www.wtule.net/v2227.html | accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref> and in 2006 Roma was nominated for ''Best Nonsexual Performance'' Gay Adult Video News (GAYVN) award for her portrayal of Mona Lott, the maid of '']'' which is a ten episode gay porn ] series.<ref name="Wet Palms Is A Sexy">{{cite web | accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref> and in 2006 Roma was nominated for ''Best Nonsexual Performance'' Gay Adult Video News (GAYVN) award for her portrayal of Mona Lott, the maid of '']'' which is a ten episode gay porn ] series.<ref name="Wet Palms Is A Sexy">{{cite web | last =Van Iquity | first =Sister Dana | title=Wet Palms Is A Sexy Yet Sappy Soap | publisher=] | date=March 10, 2006
| url =http://www.sfbaytimes.com/article_p.php?article_id=4750 | accessdate= 2007-11-03}}</ref> She also has performed at San Francisco's longest running ] show ].<ref name="Tune, out">{{cite web | last=Provenzano
| last =Van Iquity | first =Sister Dana | title=Wet Palms Is A Sexy Yet Sappy Soap
| first=Jim | title=Tune, out | publisher=] | date= September 10, 2003 | url=http://www.ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=outabout&article=161
| publisher=] | date=March 10, 2006
| accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref><ref name="Our weekly picks: What to do">{{cite web
| url =http://www.sfbaytimes.com/article_p.php?article_id=4750
| last=Provenzano | first=Jim | title=Our weekly picks: What to do this week
| accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref> She also has performed at San Francisco's longest running ] show ].<ref name="Tune, out">{{cite web
| publisher=] | month=October | year=2007| url=http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4638&volume_id=317&issue_id=318&volume_num=42&issue_num=01&l=1
| last=Provenzano | first=Jim | title=Tune, out | publisher=]
| date=September 10, 2003 | url=http://www.ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=outabout&article=161 | accessdate=2007-10-27}}</ref><ref name="Our weekly picks: What to do">{{cite web
| last=Provenzano | first=Jim | title=Our weekly picks: What to do this week
| publisher=] | month=October | year=2007
| url=http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?ntry_id=4638&volume_id=317&issue_id=318&volume_num=42&issue_num=01&l=1
| accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref> | accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref>


Roma writes a bi-weekly column ''Drag It'' for San Franscisco's gay alternative magazine ''Gloss''.<ref name="Drag It in Gloss">{{Citation Roma writes a bi-weekly column ''Drag It'' for San Franscisco's gay alternative magazine ''Gloss''.<ref name="Drag It in Gloss">{{Citation | last=Roma | first=Sister |title=Drag It
| newspaper=Gloss | volume=6 | issue=21 | pages=30 | date=October 19-November 1, 2007
| last=Roma | first=Sister | author-link=Sister Roma | title=Drag It
| url=http://www.sfgloss.com }}</ref>
| newspaper=Gloss | volume=6 | issue=21 | pages=30
| date=October 19-November 1, 2007 | url=http://www.sfgloss.com }}</ref>


For the 24th annual ] held ], ] the was a photo featuring well-known ] and ] community members in festive and ] attire with Roma as ] "in an innovative version of the culturally iconographic" '']'' by ] complete with table draped with the ] and "cluttered with ], ], and various (])]".<ref name="Catholic Group Threatens Battle With Miller">{{cite web For the 24th annual ] held September 2007 the was a photo featuring well-known ] and ] community members in festive and ] attire with Roma as ] "in an innovative version of the culturally iconographic" '']'' by ] complete with table draped with the ] and "cluttered with ], ], and various (])]".<ref name="Catholic Group Threatens Battle With Miller">{{cite web | last =Gerstein
| last =Gerstein | first =Josh | title=Catholic Group Threatens Battle With Miller Beer Over Racy Ad | publisher=] | date=September 27, 2007 | url =http://www.nysun.com/article/63472 | accessdate=2007-09-29}}</ref> The artwork by FredAlert<ref name="Folsom art draws fire from the right">{{cite web | first =Josh | title=Catholic Group Threatens Battle With Miller Beer Over Racy Ad
| publisher=] | date=September 27, 2007 | url =http://www.nysun.com/article/63472
| accessdate=2007-09-29}}</ref> The artwork by FredAlert<ref name="Folsom art draws fire from the right">{{cite web | last =Cassell | first =Heather | title=Folsom art draws fire from the right | publisher=] | date=27 September 2007; Vol. 37, No. 39;
| last =Cassell | first =Heather | title=Folsom art draws fire from the right
| publisher=] | date=27 September 2007; Vol. 37, No. 39;
| url =http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2230 | url =http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2230
| accessdate=2007-09-29}}</ref> was used on the official event guide as well as produced as collector's posters that were also posted throughout the city for advertising. Some conservative religious groups criticized this as anti-Christian and blasphemous<ref name="Catholic Group Urges Boycott of Miller">{{cite web | accessdate=2007-09-29}}</ref> was used on the official event guide as well as produced as collector's posters that were also posted throughout the city for advertising. Some conservative religious groups criticized this as anti-Christian and blasphemous<ref name="Catholic Group Urges Boycott of Miller">{{cite web
| title=Catholic Group Urges Boycott of Miller Brewing Co. Over San Francisco Fair Sponsorship | title=Catholic Group Urges Boycott of Miller Brewing Co. Over San Francisco Fair Sponsorship | publisher=] | date=September 27, 2007
| publisher=] | date=September 27, 2007 | url =http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298277,00.html | accessdate=2007-09-29}}</ref> although ] and ]s of the Last Supper painting like ]'s controversial ] are numerous.<ref name="Other Last Suppers">{{cite web | url =http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298277,00.html
| accessdate=2007-09-29}}</ref> although ] and ]s of the Last Supper painting like ]'s controversial ] are numerous.<ref name="Other Last Suppers">{{cite web | last =Savage | first =Dan
| authorlink =Dan Savage | title= Other Last Suppers: Where’s the Outrage? | publisher=The Stranger (Seattle newspaper) | date=25 September 2007 | url =http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/other_last_suppers_wheres_the_outrage
| last =Savage | first =Dan | authorlink =Dan Savage | coauthors =
| title= Other Last Suppers: Where’s the Outrage? | publisher=The Stranger (Seattle newspaper)
| date=25 September 2007 | url =http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/other_last_suppers_wheres_the_outrage
| accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref> | accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref>


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Sister Roma - There's No Place Like Rome!, usually shortened to Sister Roma! (born December 22, 1962) is an American drag performer, social rights activist, and art director of gay pornography. She is a twenty-year veteran member of San Francisco's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc. According to her bio page on the Sisters' website she joined in 1987 and was the first of the group to be publicly elevated and veiled.

Career

Roma is the art director at gay pornography studio Hot House Entertainment and co-hosts an online live-format talk show about the adult pornography industry, The Tim and Roma Show with various guests and discussing film projects as well as events in the LGBT community and gay pornographic industry.

Roma has done coverage of the GayVN Awards including serving as emcee for the February 2007 awards held at San Francisco's Castro Theater.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's 28th Anniversary Celebration and community fundraiser held in San Francisco's Dolores Park includes the popular "Hunky Jesus competition" shown here emceeded by Sister Dana Van Iquity and Sister Roma - There's No Place Like Rome! photo: Jere

Roma has served as an emcee and celebrity judge for numerous community and charity events including; judge at the world's longest running (and possibly largest) drag king event, the San Francisco Drag King Contest;; judge for Will Clark's 2005 benefit Porn Idol; emcee at the world's largest BDSM/leather event and California's third largest spectator event, the Folsom Street Fair; emcee for the 2005 Bad Boys by the Bay; and Main Stage emcee at San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade, 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' Center Studios.

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 porn producer Chi Chi LaRue and in 2006 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 porn soap opera series. She also has performed at San Francisco's longest running drag show Trannyshack.

Roma writes a bi-weekly column Drag It for San Franscisco's gay alternative magazine Gloss.

For the 24th annual Folsom Street Fair held September 2007 the official poster artwork was a photo featuring well-known LGBT and BDSM community members in festive and fetish attire with Roma as Mary Magdalene "in an innovative version of the culturally iconographic" The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci complete with table draped with the Leather Pride flag and "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 also posted throughout the city for advertising. Some conservative religious groups criticized this as anti-Christian and blasphemous although parodies and homages of the Last Supper painting like Renée Cox's controversial Yo Mama's Last Supper are numerous.

References

  1. ^ Sister Roma bio thesisters.org (retrieved 2007-10-29)
  2. ^ Roca, Octavio (25 June 2002), Trash-TV tragedy makes for farce - 'Straight Men' a campy success, retrieved 2007-10-29
  3. Gray, Rebecca (September 1, 2004). "NakedSword.com's Cutting Edge". Retrieved 2007-11-03. {{cite web}}: Text "publisherAdult Video News" ignored (help)
  4. ^ "Meet The Sisters: Sister ROMA! There's No Place Like Rome". Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-28.
  5. Farrar, Charles (February 27, 2004). "NakedSword.com Premieres The Tim and Roma Show". Adult Video News. Retrieved 2007-11-03.
  6. Naked Sword And Porn Companies Give Back San Francisco Bay Time, 5 April 2007 (retrieved 2007-10-29)
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