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| Sister Roma | |
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| Born | Michael Williams[1] December 22, 1962 Michigan |
Michael Williams (born December 22, 1962), better known as his stage name Sister Roma, is an American drag queen and art director of gay pornography. He is a twenty-year member of San Francisco's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.[2]
[edit] 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 worked as a presenter at the GayVN Awards.[3]
Roma has served as an emcee and celebrity judge for community and charity events like the San Francisco Drag King Contest,[4] the 2005 benefit Porn Idol;[5] and at the BDSM/leather event the Folsom Street Fair;[6]
In 2003 Roma's "merely adequate" drag act was incorporated into Ronnie Larsen's play Sleeping With Straight Men with Mink Stole in San Francisco.[7][8] 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.[9] She also has performed at San Francisco's longest running drag show Trannyshack.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ SFGate
- ^ Personal bio at thesisters.org
- ^ Naked Sword And Porn Companies Give Back San Francisco Bay Time, 5 April 2007 (retrieved 2007-10-29)
- ^ Tudor, Silke (July 19, 2000). "Night Crawler: Crown Performance". SF Weekly. http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-07-19/news/night-crawler/. Retrieved 2007-07-27.
- ^ Johnson, Peter (July 19, 2005). "Will Clark San Francisco Fundraisers Near". Adult Video News. http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=EDA2579E-1372-4B41-C46EDF53A4FA5E3F&slid=174083. Retrieved 2007-11-03.
- ^ Vaziri, Aidin (October 22, 2006). "On The Town With Heklina: All the city's a stage for this drag queen". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/22/LVGI9LR7T11.DTL&hw=sister+roma&sn=011&sc=307. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ^ Hurwitt, Robert (September 10, 2003). "Sleepwalking through a talk-show tragedy: Jenny Jones drama tends to nod off". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/10/DD47011.DTL&type=printable. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ^ Roca, Octavio (25 June 2002). "Trash-TV tragedy makes for farce: 'Straight Men' a campy success". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/25/DD127280.DTL. Retrieved 2009-10-11.
- ^ Van Iquity, Sister Dana (March 10, 2006). "Wet Palms Is A Sexy Yet Sappy Soap". San Francisco Bay Times. http://www.sfbaytimes.com/article_p.php?article_id=4750. Retrieved 2007-11-03.
- ^ Provenzano, Jim (September 10, 2003). "Tune, out". Bay Area Reporter. http://www.ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=outabout&article=161. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
