Lady Bunny identifies as a non-operative transsexual woman. In a 2013 interview with the HuffPost, she stated that she sees herself “part of that [trans] community. But I have no plans for the surgery”. Furthermore, she is almost never seen out of women’s clothing.

Lady Bunny served on the judges’ panel on the spinoff show RuPaul’s Drag U, which aired on the Logo TV network from 2010 to 2012. Lady Bunny was 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”. During the fifth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, contestant Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 impersonated Bunny for the Snatch Game. Episode 5 of the fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars featured a roast of Lady Bunny at a mock-funeral.

In 2005, she was a roaster on the Comedy Central roast of Pamela Anderson and released her first DVD, Rated X for X-tra Retarded.

In 2003, Lady Bunny made a guest appearance in the Sex and the City episode “Boy, Interrupted”, as the emcee at the LGBT prom.

Lady Bunny began her career alongside Larry Tee and RuPaul as a fixture on the Atlanta gay scene in the early 1980s and appeared in a variety of low-budget films with them, including the Starbooty series. In 1984, she moved to New York City, became one of the Club Kids, and in 1985, organized Wigstock, an annual drag queen festival that lasted until 2005.

Lady Bunny, originally known as “Bunny Hickory Dickory Dock,” (born Jon Ingle, August 13, 1962) is an American drag queen, nightclub DJ, promoter and founder of the annual Wigstock event. She has also released disco singles such as “Shame, Shame, Shame!” and “The Pussycat Song”.