Lady Bunny

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Lady Bunny at the Wigstock Festival 2001

Lady Bunny (* 14. August 1962 in Chattanooga , Tennessee as Jon Ingle ) is an American drag queen . She is a comedian, DJ and founder of the drag queen festival Wigstock .

Life

Lady Bunny grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In her childhood, she was usually the only boy in the group to take steppe and jazz dance lessons. In 1982 she moved to Atlanta , where she studied at Georgia State University . Her roommate was the well-known drag queen RuPaul , with whom she has been friends since then. RuPaul inspired her to create a drag figure. In Atlanta she subsequently appeared regularly as a drag queen in clubs in collaboration with, among others, the DJ and club organizer Larry Tee and RuPaul. She also starred in RuPaul's low-budget film productions at the time. In 1984 she moved to New York with RuPaul and other friends , where she has lived and worked ever since.

In New York's East Village gay and lesbian district , Lady Bunny became known for her shows at The Pyramid Club , which included playback numbers and crude bits of humor. Soon after moving to New York, she helped initiate the Wigstock Festival, which was intended to make drag queen culture known to a wider public and was moderated by her. She herself describes the festival as her career breakthrough. The festival, which had performances by musicians like Boy George and Crystal Waters in addition to drag queens , took place annually on Labor Day in Tompkins Square Park until 2005 and had up to 40,000 visitors at its peak. The documentary Wigstock: The Movie (1994) deals with the festival.

Since then she has performed shows and cabaret programs in New York, including That Ain't Drag (2011 at La Escuelita Cabaret Theater) and Trans-Jester (2016 at Stonewall Inn ). She has appeared in an episode of Sex and the City (2003), the films To Wong Foo, thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) and Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! (2008) and the television program RuPaul's Drag U (2011). Together with RuPaul she recorded the duet Throw Ya Hands Up for their album Champion (2009).

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  1. ↑ a b c Hilton As: Lady Bunny, a Creator of Wigstock, Has a New Show. In: The New Yorker. September 5, 2016, accessed October 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Lady Bunny. (No longer available online.) In: Fusebox Festival. Archived from the original on October 6, 2016 ; accessed on October 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fuseboxfestival.com
  3. ^ A b Dylan Michael: Lady Bunny touches up Southern roots in Atlanta. In: Project Q Atlanta. July 25, 2013, accessed October 6, 2016 .

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SURNAME Lady Bunny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ingle, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American drag queen
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Chattanooga , Tennessee