THE GRANDEST DAME

The long regaled Lady Bunny , has been my all time, hands down, favorite queen!!!! Friends of mine will tell you, I can talk about her for hours, and I hope your never  find yourself with me at one of her shows.....I get REAL lit!!!! She is a bad influence, what can I tell you!!!! I know she may not be everybody's cup of tea, but I love her fowl ,dirty mouth, her political incorrectness, her sharp tongue, and her comedy of smart wisecracks is tons of hilarity. Since coming out, she was really the first queen I ever really saw that impressed me, that retro fashion, that voice, and that huge hair, which I think inspired me when I did my big hair. Go big or go home I say. We caught her show in New York last month, Hot Mess with Bianca Del Rio, which was completely gut busting. As with all shows, we got to talk some and have drinks of course, with her. All this time I wondered how she ever came up with the name Lady Bunny. I had never thought to ask before, or if I did I was too drunk to remember, and this is what she said.....

" Well you know, there was a comic book called “Millie the Model” that was fairly popular about two models. Then there was an off-shoot of that called “Bunny ‘Queen of the In-Crowd’. She wore psychedelic mini dresses and had blonde hair. Of course, this was the late sixties so it was quite like my look now but thin because she was a model. I did collect those comic books so that could have been it. There wasn’t any rational process. ‘Lady’ is a name that a lot of drag queens down south give themselves to try to seem as though they are classier. So I was kind of making fun of that tradition to seem grander than you are because when I got my start with RuPaul in Atlanta when we were dirt poor. Our outfits were so atrocious. And don’t even get me started on our make-up skills. The idea of using ‘Lady’ anything was a joke in itself. We were the most busted boogers on the block (cough cough) of the city perhaps."

 

 

And then there was a rare treat where I saw a picture of her out of drag. But that will be kept a secret. And if your not familiar with Bun Bun, here's a quick 3 min clip of her last show, Clowns Syndrome at La Escuelita, which I also saw. I think I wet myself that time. Love her added touch with celebrity endorsements.