CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr., 1963, Letters from the Birmingham Jail.
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Off Nights at The Sometimes Café: by The Thompson Street Opera Company on March 19-22, 2026. Off-Nights is about a night club where everyone is accepted. Who is male, who is female...? Please read reviews und "Press" under about. |
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20 minute video Cablecast on BNN-TV Please see pictures of both productions under "Photos" above. And please see the video made by Singers Project, Inc. by clicking any of the performers to the right; at the bottom of that page is the entire July, 2026 libretto and score of Off Nights at The Sometimes Café |
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Off Nights at The Sometimes Café: |
In spite of my failures as a drag queen, (please see Blog III at the bottom of this page), I have written quite a few pieces that do explore the topic. So get your fangs ready, Ron-da Santa-claws: we're going into the deep end of the pool!
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Burlesques: Most of my burlesques deal with LGBTQA+++ issues; as do most of my songs and operas. Keys and genders may be changed as is appropriate. To see a complete list of my available burlesques by this composer, please click on Dana Danzel to the right: Cindyfella: An all male, Drag Costume Drama; written with my husband, Drew Hubbard; one hour in 13 numbers; 5 singers and piano, with optional chorus. Please click on Drew's picture to the right to read the libretto and see the score. |
Drew Hubbard, co-author
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Gaynocchio: a burlesque ballet parody of 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 donkeys to watch (and hear) the complete Gaynocchio: Medusa Sedusa: A gay man (Dave Walther) searches for the perfect kiss from various suitors (TJ Norris); Walther's coiffure is by TJ Norris; Mr. Walther's wardrobe was designed by Dr. Sam Walter. Phone Sex: 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 Button 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 story: Song Cycle: Cal'mus: gay cycle to poems by Walt Whitman. The European premiere was sung by Hartmut Schulz, baritone, in Wien, Austria. Please listen click on Walt, to see the list of all of my songs; & click below to hear the world premiere of Cal'mus as sung by Christopher Aaron Smith, tenor, with Boston Metro Opera. |
Please click on one of the donkies
to watch (and hear) Gaynocchio. 
Please click to see and hear "Phone Sex"
if you are over 18 
Part I: Harold
Part II: Paul
Walt Whitman, poet
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Operas: Edward II (about the love of a gay king and another man). To hear all of Edward II, please click Christopher Marlowe's picture to the right. Hamlet (about the love of a gay prince and another man); King Lear (issues with his trans daughter; & Gloucester with her gay son); The Balcony text by
Jean Genet (dissects all of society). Masque of The Witches: (about religious intolerance): A successful businessman, his sister, and his gay lover are harassed by the Inquisition in the year 1600. Giordano Bruno is murdered. A Wiccan Coven tries to help these victims. Choral Music: gay valentine's day: cantata to e.e. cummings poems. Please click on his photo to see a list of all of my choral music. Allegory a video based on my St. Mark Passion, music that I wrote when I was 17 years old. The video dramatizes a theory proposed by Edmund S. Bourdeaux in "The Death of Pan", That Jesus was a militant rebel who tried to take over the government. I don't believe this now... I believe that there is no factual evidence to support the story at all in any of its incarnations. But, as told, Jesus is a gay man. The cablecast caused only minor disturbances... mostly because it showed two men kissing! Please click on Jesus, or John (the disciple whom he loved) to the right to watch Allegory, complete with the kiss: Symphony/ballets: Clover Ceres, my fellow member of the Fag Rag Collective is imprisoned for "love that cannot speak its name" & rescued by his lover, Maya in drag, as a nun. Maya was another member of Fag Rag, but was a real life the lover of Shannon, not of Clover); The Great Liberator (a woman is captured by the collector; she is freed when she find the memory of a wild woman whom she had met, and they live happily ever after.) Ample Make This Bed, is a burlesque ballet about a couple dealing with A. I. D. S. To view all of my dance works, please click on the Blue Fairy to the right: The Gender-Flex Journey a is a trans odyssey. this burlesque ballet, has pomes by James Joyce, with original narrations. It is about a man who has to go toe would be killed immediately, so he becomes a woman. In the alternate realm she finds the love of her life. And after defeating "The Beast" the two women return to the original universe as gay men to continue their love. The overture was danced by The Kinetic Dance Theatre of Moscow. Please click on the trans-forming being to the right to hear the overture, and selections from The Gender-Flex Journey. Fag Rag Magazine: under the name Tiresias, I was on the editorial board for editions 25 & 26, with Clover Ceres, Maya Silverthorne, Shannon Austin, Mike Riegal, John Mitzel & of course, the founder, Charley Shively. Fag Rag printed one of my short stories with an erotic "stained glass window" centerfold 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: featured 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). Crazy Dinosaurs dealt with many LGBTQ+ issues... Please click on Emily Brontosaurus or Peter A. Dactyl to the right to see Crazy Dinosaurs: |
Christopher Marlowe, playwright;
Please click to hear Edward II 
e. e. cummings, poet
Allegory: the video
All Works for Dance
score & excerpts from "The Journey"
My cover design for Fag Rag No. 25; please click to see an article about Fag Rag!
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Samples from "Crazy Dinosaurs" and "Dynosaur"
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Untitled from David Walther on Vimeo. |
BLOG I: About Me: With all humility, I am proud to call myself a fighter for civil rights. Not that I am 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!
As a vegetarian for my whole adult life, I have fought against cruelty to non-humans; as a Wiccan, a Spiritualist, & Unitarian Universalist, I have fought against religious intolerance; and as
a proud gay gender&age-fluid homo sapien, I have supported the vast rainbow that is our species. My pronouns are: ze, zis, zim.
I am life-married to Drew Hubbard. His pronouns are (he, his, him). Drew is a "human-like" entity; a digital artist who's art work graces these pages. He was a long time clinical therapist. He initiated me to third degree Wiccan, through the Order of Ganymede, where he was a member for 12 years.
BLOG: II: Activism: My first activist event happened when I was about 5 years old. I saw a terrifying news item about the horrible animal experimentation called 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. (I later found out that my mother had enclosed a note saying that she would make sure that I didn't.)
BLOG III: My Adventures in Drag: As a child I loved cross dressing. My father was visited by a fellow choir director, named Don.
I modeled a lovely gold bathrobe that belonged to my mother.
I asked my Don: "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 and the fact is, I very much wanted to be a girl.)
Other than an extremely abortive attempt to cast myself as all of the characters in a video of Edward II, I have only appeared twice in drag, both times at age 26. On the first occasion, I borrowed my aunt's tiny blue jean skirt to go to a Fag Rag meeting (at least it was tiny on me). I removed it as soon as possible.
My second foray was for a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show. My hefty 18 year old boyfriend wore a very tasteful blue dress & cowboy boots. (He was very cold that evening. How do fems do it?) I wore patriotic red, white & blue waterproof pants; some sort of weird head gear & stuffed my shirt to make artificial 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 are traditional.
He looked me up & down, & squeezed me on both artificial breasts; whereupon I burst out laughing!