Lady Bunny

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The Lady Bunny

Lady Bunny at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Background information
Birth name Jon Ingle
Born (1962-08-14) August 14, 1962
Origin Chattanooga, Tennessee
Genres Dance-pop
Hi-NRG
Disco House
R&B
Euro-Dance
Electro
Occupations Drag performer
Actor
Years active 1980s–present
Website LadyBunny.net

The Lady Bunny (born Jon Ingle, August 14, 1962)[1] is an American drag queen, nightclub DJ, promoter and founder of the annual Wigstock event. She has also released disco singles such as "Shame, Shame, Shame!" and "The Pussycat Song". She has appeared in films such as Party Girl, Wigstock: The Movie, Peoria Babylon, Starrbooty, and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. Lady Bunny also often works for magazines to use humor for the "Worst Dressed".

Career

Lady Bunny began her career alongside Larry Tee and RuPaul as a fixture on the Atlanta gay scene[2] and appeared in a variety of low-budget films with them, including the Starbooty series. Moving to New York City in 1984, Lady Bunny organized Wigstock[3] in 1985, an annual drag queen festival that lasted until 2005. Bunny frequently performs at XL Nightclub with Bianca Del Rio.

Bunny was featured in the web series Queens of Drag: NYC by gay.com in 2010. The series featured fellow New York drag queens Bianca Del Rio, Dallas DuBois, Hedda Lettuce, Mimi Imfurst, Peppermint, and Sherry Vine.

Music

Her style of drag performance usually involves lip-synching to a compilation of karaoke versions of popular songs over which she has recorded her own vocals singing parodies of the original lyrics. The new lyrics are usually sexually explicit or revolve around food, or both. For instance, her parody of the Gwen Stefani song Hollaback Girl has the lyric "I shit a banana/a banana in my ass!" Lady Bunny has released video parodies of "Santa Claus is coming to town" and California Gurls titled West Virginia Girls. Her January, 2011, parody of Harper Valley PTA, entitled "The Ballad of Sarah Palin", lampooned the American politician as portrayed by Palin imitator Dorothy Bishop. On July 1, 2013, Lybra Records released remixes of Lady Bunny's original song, "Take Me Up High"[4] which debuted at #43 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play chart July 29, 2013.[5]

Television

In 2005, she was a roaster on the Comedy Central roast of Pamela Anderson[6] and released her first DVD, Rated X for X-tra Retarded.[7]

RuPaul asked Lady Bunny to be a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race. Bunny declined it but took interest in the spin-off series, RuPaul's Drag U. Bunny served on the judges panel on RuPaul's Drag U, which aired on the Logo TV network from 2010 to 2012. Lady Bunny was Dean of Drag and had a role of judge in the first season. In season 2 of RuPaul's Drag U, the Dean of Drag role was expanded into a segment called Lady Lessons. During the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, contestant Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 impersonated Bunny for the Snatch Game.[8]

In 2003, Lady Bunny made a guest appearance in the Sex and the City episode "Boy, Interrupted", as the emcee at the LGBT prom.[9]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ↑ Wadler, Joyce. The Lady Bunny at the forefront of Wigstock Flamboyant? Certainly, From Head to Heels, New York Times. accessed April 24, 2006.
  2. ↑ The Tramp is a Lady - Southern Voice
  3. ↑ http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/events/doc/pyramidirisrose.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Lady-Bunny-Take-Me-Up-High-Remixes/release/4767742
  5. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5073022/chart-highlights-enrique-iglesias-night-dawns-on-pop-songs
  6. ↑ Heffernan, Virginia (13 August 2005). "Roasters of 'Stacked' Star Romp High to Low". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-05-27. 
  7. ↑ Musto, Michael (6 December 2005). "La Dolce Musto". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2007-05-27. 
  8. ↑ Hoff, Al (26 February 2013). "RuPaul's Drag Race Alaska Watch". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 20 April 2013. 
  9. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0698621/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_7
  10. ↑ "2009 GayVN Winners". RAD Video. 
  11. ↑ "Raging Stallion Sweeps the GAYVN Awards: Full list of winners". AVN. 
  12. ↑ http://www.amfar.org/spotlight/article.aspx?id=7450
  13. ↑ http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-06-17/columns/talk-show-host-thrown-out-of-gay-bar/

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