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Sisters of Divine Color founded 1995

The Sisters of Divine Color (SDC) are a group of male nuns founded on October 31, 1995 in New Orleans, LA. The founder Mother Mary Madonna, SDC, Abbess of the World and the Upper Mississippi River Valley.

The SDC sisters organization uses religious imagery to call attention to the great admiration that these men had towards there school teachers from the past. At their inception in 1995, a small group of gay & straight men in New Orleans began wearing religious habits of nuns in visible situations using social conflicts and problems in the French Quarter area and beyond as a way to teach about the love of Jesus and his life spreading the Divine Color of love and forbearance to all peoples.

The Sisters have grown throughout the United States, Canada, England, and Ireland as an international network of sisters, which help and care for mostly non-profit charity organizations that at times raise money for AIDS and LGBT-related causes. In New Orleans alone where they continue to be the most active, between 1995 and 2015 the Sisters are credited with raising monies for various causes, one being Lazarus House a home founded by the Franciscans Friars for people living with HIV/AIDS. One such fundraiser is held on the feast of Halloween each year.

Members of the group, while not hiding their masculine features do have another branch of the order called "Secret Sisters" they are followers of the SDC community but choose to follow without the habit of penance at functions.

The Sisters of Divine Color are in no way from the same vision as their friends the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence of San Francisco who have attracted controversy both within and outside the LGBT communities. The SDC sisters want to bring a sense of love and respect to the dear sisters who taught for many years and continue to make a positive difference in the lives of men and women and to help others to appreciate such gifts they are to the Catholic and Anglican, Lutheran denomination know that they are loved and respected by the SDC.