Sachet has been awarded many community honors, including serving as
Grand Marshal in the
San Francisco Pride parade and being named first lady of the
Castro district by California Senator
Mark Leno. She was elected by the
Imperial Court System as the 30th Absolute Empress of San Francisco with
Brian C. Benamati in 1995. She recently has served on the boards of the
San Francisco LGBT Community Center, the
AIDS Emergency Fund,
Positive Resource Center, the
Imperial Council and the state board of
Equality California. She co-chaired the San Francisco GLAAD Media Awards for four years. Sachet serves as an unofficial liaison for the
LGBT and
leather communities. She currently writes a biweekly column for the
SF Bay Times, wrote a quarterly newsletter geared to the LGBTQ community for the SF Convention & Visitors Bureau, and was the host of "Sunday's a Drag" a female impersonation, brunch show at Harry Denton's Starlight Room in the St Francis Hotel for 15 years. With Tim Gaskin, she co-hosted a
Comcast weekly LGBTQ television series called
OUT Spoken for five years. On September 29, 2009, Sachet became the first drag performer to sing the
United States National Anthem at the opening of a
Major League Baseball game. Sachet has presided at the lighting ceremony for the Rainbow World Fund's World Tree of Hope in San Francisco City Hall and Grace Cathedral for 10 years, presided over the lighting of the Castro Holiday Tree, and cut the ribbon for the opening of the Castro Farmers' Market for 10 years. Donna Sachet co-created with Gary Virginia the annual Pride Brunch honoring the Grand Marshals of the SF Pride Parade and raising money for PRC. She created Songs of the Season, a holiday cabaret show benefiting AIDS Emergency Fund and PRC, now in its 30th year at Feinstein's at the Nikko Hotel. Donna Sachet starred in three successful runs of Artful Circle Theatre's musical drag version of The Women, entitled Jungle Red, two original performances of Who Murdered Donna Sachet?, several guest appearances in Incentive to Intrigue's The Daddy, the Diva, and the Detective murder mystery dinners, a six-week run of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, and four weeks as Sylvia in Ruthless, The Musical. Donna Sachet is the subject of Nick Jimenez' student film Sachet: a short film and had a featured role in Adam Reeves' full feature comedy film,
My Brother's Shoes. Donna Sachet can be heard on recordings of the benefit holiday compilation Carols Across America and Songs of the Season 2013. ==Awards and honors==