CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM
As a vegetarian for my whole adult life, I have fought against cruelty to non-humans; as a third degree Wiccan, a Spiritualist,& Unitarian Universalist, I have fought against religious intolerance; and as a proud gay cis-male (formerly a proud trans (M-F) child); I have supported the vast rainbow that is our species. I have been (legally) married to Drew Hubbard since 2005.
My first activist event happened when about 5 years old. when
I saw a terrifying news item about animal experimentation; in particular, it was about vivisection. I wrote a letter to the mayor of NYC. I told him that if this practice didn't stop, I would personally commit suicide. My mother enclosed a note saying that she would make sure that I wouldn't.
As a child I loved cross dressing. My father had a vist from a fellow choir director, I modeled a golden bathrobe that belonged to my mother. I asked my father's friend: "isn't this beautiful? He replied that it was. I asked: "don't I look just like The Virgin Mary?" He relied:"Maybe when she was pregnant." (I was not a tiny child!)
As I got older I lost interest in wearing women's clothes. In fact,
I don't really feel comforable in them any more. Adolecence came and I changed from trans to cis. I have only appeared twice in drag since then. On the first occassion, I borrowed my aunt's tiny blue jean skirt. (At least it was tiny on me). I went to a Fag Rag meeting. There was pressure to don feminine attire, so I put the skirt on at the door, and promptly removed when the meeting ended.
My second adult attempt at drag was for a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show. My hefty 18 year old boyfriend wore a very tastful blue dress & cowboy boots. (He was very cold that evening, How do women do it?) I wore red, white & blue waterproof pants; some sort of weird head gear & stuffed my shirt to make artifical breasts. (What was I thinking?) In the lobby, I was confronted by a very straight cis male attendant. He was probably looking for something that might be hurled through the air at the movie screen: knives, candles & rolls of toilet paper seem to fit the plot line best. He looked me up and down, and then squeezed me on both artifical breasts... I burst out laughing.
Anyway, in spite of these failures as a drag queen, I have written quite a few pieces that do explore the topic. My first selection below is an example. So get your cops ready, Ron-da Santa-claws: we're going into the deep end of the pool!
My first activist event happened when about 5 years old. when
I saw a terrifying news item about animal experimentation; in particular, it was about vivisection. I wrote a letter to the mayor of NYC. I told him that if this practice didn't stop, I would personally commit suicide. My mother enclosed a note saying that she would make sure that I wouldn't.
As a child I loved cross dressing. My father had a vist from a fellow choir director, I modeled a golden bathrobe that belonged to my mother. I asked my father's friend: "isn't this beautiful? He replied that it was. I asked: "don't I look just like The Virgin Mary?" He relied:"Maybe when she was pregnant." (I was not a tiny child!)
As I got older I lost interest in wearing women's clothes. In fact,
I don't really feel comforable in them any more. Adolecence came and I changed from trans to cis. I have only appeared twice in drag since then. On the first occassion, I borrowed my aunt's tiny blue jean skirt. (At least it was tiny on me). I went to a Fag Rag meeting. There was pressure to don feminine attire, so I put the skirt on at the door, and promptly removed when the meeting ended.
My second adult attempt at drag was for a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show. My hefty 18 year old boyfriend wore a very tastful blue dress & cowboy boots. (He was very cold that evening, How do women do it?) I wore red, white & blue waterproof pants; some sort of weird head gear & stuffed my shirt to make artifical breasts. (What was I thinking?) In the lobby, I was confronted by a very straight cis male attendant. He was probably looking for something that might be hurled through the air at the movie screen: knives, candles & rolls of toilet paper seem to fit the plot line best. He looked me up and down, and then squeezed me on both artifical breasts... I burst out laughing.
Anyway, in spite of these failures as a drag queen, I have written quite a few pieces that do explore the topic. My first selection below is an example. So get your cops ready, Ron-da Santa-claws: we're going into the deep end of the pool!
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Cindyfella: A costume musical; play written with my husband, Drew Hubbard; one hour in 13 numbers for an all male cast: (or all trans M, F, men/ women in drag.... whatever!) anyway, it's for 7 singers and piano, with optional chorus. Please see the PDF to the right to read the libretto. Most of my pop songs are very easy to perform, and the keys (and genders for that matter) can be changed at will. There is often a complex, optional ensemble at the end but it can easily be modified, About half are appropriate for children; the other half are for more or a "late night" crowd. Many of them deal with LGBTQAI issues. To see a complete list of my available music theater works please click on one of the dancers to the right: |
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Complete list of my available
Music Theater Works! |
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Off Nights at The Sometimes Café: A Sex Mystery was cablecast on BNN-TV in Boston without incident. To see Off Nights please click on any of the performers to the right:
\ Gaynocchio is a parody of my music theater ballet Pinocchio
as performed by The Marblehead Ballet. I wrote new narrations for a very annoying cricket, as a voice-over for the original production. Please click on one of the donkies to watch (and hear) Gaynocchio: The Journey with poems by
James Joyce, and narrations by the composer is about a man who has to go to the alternate universe in order to destroy "The Beast." As a gay man, he would be killed immediately, so he becomes a woman. In the alternate realm he finds the love of his life. And after defeating "The Beast" the two women return to the original universe as gay men to continue their love. The overture was performed by The Kinetic Dance Theater of Moscow. Please click on the trans-forming being to the right to hear the overture, and selections from The Journey. Phone Sex was first shown on BNN-TV, where it faced censorship, and as a result, was included in a program of censored works at The Mobius Theater in Boston. To see (and hear) Phone Sex please click on the telephone in the photo to the right. You must be 18 years or older to visit this site. Confessions of a Fat Slut: chronicles two of the large men (Harold & Paul) loved by a gay man named Tommy. It was cablecast on BNN-TV & shown very informally at The Boston Ramrod, please click on Harold's mother (top right) to watch the story of Tommy & Harold. To the right (bottom) please click on Paul or Tommy to see the story of their love: Fag Rag Magazine: under the name Tiresias, I was on the editorial board for editions 25 & 26, with Clover Cires, Maya Silverthorne, Shannon Austin, Mike Riegal, John Mitzel, Michael Bronski & of course, the founder, Dr. Charley Shively. Fag Rag printed one of my short stories with an erotic "stained glass window" in Fag Rag 26, as well as erotic poems & artwork, including the cover of Fag Rag No. 25. Please click on the image of my "front cover" to read an article about The Fag Rag Collective. Crazy Dinosaurs: featered in "Bay Windows" and "The Advocate" (with a full page picture & article). Crazy Dinosaurs also won an honorable mention in Hometown USA Film and Video Contest. An article was also published in South End News (cover story with photo). Please click on Emily Brontosaurus or Peter A. Dactyl to the right to see Crazy Dinosaurs: |
Off Nights at The Sometimes Café: A Sex Mystery
Please click on one of the donkies to watch (and hear) Gaynocchio. 
excerpts from "The Journey"
Phone Sex at Mobius, Boston
exhibition of works that have been censured. Please click to see and hear "Phone Sex" 
Part I: Harold
Part II: Paul
My cover design for Fag Rag No. 25;
please click for an article about Fag Rag. 
Please click on the above dinosaurs
to see "Crazy Dinosaurs" |
With all humility, I am proud to call myself a fighter for civil rights. Not that I am so great... but that the cause itself is great. There is not, nor has there ever been, a "gay agenda." There is only a civil rights agenda.... It doesn't matter which group is disenfranchised; we must all come together to work for justice and peace. Blessed be, to all who work towards the greater good. My heart is with you always!