Lady Bunny
| The Lady Bunny | |
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 Lady Bunny at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jon Ingle |
| Born | 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 originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who has lived in New York since the 1980s. She is the founder of the annual Wigstock event and is well known as a nightclub DJ, promoter and celebrity. She has also released disco singles such as "Shame, Shame, Shame!" and "The Pussycat Song". She has appeared in films such as 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".
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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!" At certain times, 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.
Lady Bunny is also a DJ. Having DJ'ed in various venues, Bunny has expressed sadness at the fact that music tastes have now boiled down to
[edit] Television
In 2005, she was a roaster on the Comedy Central roast of Pamela Anderson[4] and released her first DVD, Rated X for X-tra Retarded.[5]
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. Currently, Lady Bunny serves on the judges panel on RuPaul's Drag U, The weekly television series on the Logo TV network airs in summer. Lady Bunny is 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.
[edit] Awards and nominations
- 2009 GayVN Awards winner of Best Non-Sex Performance in "Brothers' Reunion" (Lucas Entertainment).[6][7]
- 2009 AmfAR's Honoring with Pride Honoree [8][9]
[edit] References
- ^ Wadler, Joyce. The Lady Bunny at the forefront of Wigstock Flamboyant? Certainly, From Head to Heels, New York Times. accessed April 24, 2006.
- ^ The Tramp is a Lady - Southern Voice
- ^ http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/events/doc/pyramidirisrose.pdf
- ^ Heffernan, Virginia (13 August 2005). "Roasters of 'Stacked' Star Romp High to Low". The New York Times. http://www.azcentral.com/ent/tv/articles/0813anderson.html. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
- ^ Musto, Michael (6 December 2005). "La Dolce Musto". The Village Voice. http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0549,musto,70698,15.html. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
- ^ "2009 GayVN Winners". RAD Video. http://www.radvideo.com/news/article.php?ID=100071.
- ^ "Raging Stallion Sweeps the GAYVN Awards: Full list of winners". AVN. http://business.avn.com/articles/34849.html.
- ^ http://www.amfar.org/spotlight/article.aspx?id=7450
- ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-06-17/columns/talk-show-host-thrown-out-of-gay-bar/
