Parodies like “Don’t Let Your Son Go Down On Me” and “It Takes Two (To Make My Hole Feel Tight)” have delighted adult crowds around the world. Many who have witnessed her high energy stage show would agree, and she’s left international audiences gasping with her demented and raunchy act. “Bunny is the funniest queen on earth” claims RuPaul. And the latest Candy magazine featured Bun-Bun in a spread by famed fashion shutterbug Ellen Von Unwerth. Bunny was profiled in a the deluxe Pop magazine spread featuring her elaborate wigs, shared a whole page in Harper’s Bazaar with Kate Moss shot by Patrick DeMarchelier, and was chosen in 2010 as one of NYC’s most notable residents by V magazine, along with Marc Jacobs and Lady Gaga. With false eyelashes long enough to embarrass Tammy Faye Bakker and gigantic blonde bouffants, Bunny’s trademark look is instantly recognizable and much to her own amusement, the NY Daily News has even chosen Bunny twice as one of the most stylish New Yorkers. Her wacky signature look began to develop as well–along with her waistline! Thankfully, her trademark empire waist mini-dresses which doesn’t require too much of a waist, but it does show off Bunny’s gorgeous gams.
Her place in the NYC scene firmly established, Bunny’s own comedy act began to develop into a whirlwind of twisted song parody medleys and Laugh In-inspired one-liners between bouts frantic go-go dancing. While the event had a modest start, the seed of inspiration was planted and did it ever grow! In the following years, Bunny’s efforts and the talented queens of the downtown scene turned this annual event into a hipper version of Gay Pride Day about which the New York Times said “the karma is dynamite.” Attracting 40,000 bewigged attendees at it’s height, the freaky festival ran for over twenty years and became the subject of the 1994 cult favorite Wigstock: The Movie. Bunny was so impressed with the inventive in-house performers that this enterprising young queen founded the festival Wigstock in order to showcase their talents to a wider audience in Tompkins Square Park. Together, they moved to NYC in the mid-eighties to become resident go-go dancers at The Pyramid Club.
“Ru was better at make-up than I and while she may not like to admit it, she is definitely my drag mother.!” says Bunny. Becoming roommates, the pair formed a strong bond that still exists today. Lady Bunny was “born” in Atlanta, Georgia, when a young Georgia State student hooked up with a budding RuPaul on the Atlanta club scene.
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