Lady Bunny

Lady Bunny Keeps Things Raunchy for the Holidays

Steve Duffy READ TIME: 8 MIN.

Of all New York City drag stars, there is no one more iconic than Lady Bunny. With her blonde helmet bouffant and hourglass figure, she has sashayed on stages for nearly forty years since arriving in New York where she roomed with RuPaul.

In 1985 Bunny organized Wigstock, the annual drag queen festival that lasted until 2005, and was later revived in 2018. The event became the subject of two full-length documentaries, one in 1995 and a second in 2019. She is also equally well-known as a DJ who has hosted in the nation's major clubs as well as at Pride events throughout the world.

Lady Bunny's retro and outrageous look suggests she would have been home on "Laugh-In" decades ago, but there are few queer personalities with their hand on the pulse of queer culture in the 21st century, as her social media accounts attest.

Bunny turns to the holidays for her latest show, "Very Blue X-Mas," which, as its title suggests, pushes the limits of taste, so expect potty-mouthed parody treatment to more than 30 Christmas anthems, with classics such as "Rudolpho the Uncut Reindeer" and "I Saw Daddy Fisting Santa Claus."


by Steve Duffy

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