“I’m a salty old kook who isn’t afraid to express herself on topics and new terms,” she warned. I want to laugh.”Īnd audiences will laugh, hard, at the show’s raunchy energy and outrageous comedy. I don’t think people want to hear about the news in a cabaret with a drag queen. Taking a beat, Lady Bunny remarked, “I’d rather talk gender politics than politics. If you treat everyone with respect, you don’t have to worry about the labels. “I can’t stand that the wedge has been driven between the drag and trans community. “Trans is one of the last taboos, and I’m glad that people are waking up to it and learning about what it is,” she added. The way Fox framed it hints at how another type of person is thinking about and these gender terms.” You’ve been living as a woman for a decade, and your boss is repeatedly harassing you and calling you ‘Will’ or ‘he.’ Fox is trying to spin it with the employer in mind. “Trans-Jester” focuses on gender pronouns such as “zir,” “ze” and “hir,” in part because Lady Bunny isn’t sure she has met one, “and I’ve been out of the closet since I was born!” she deadpanned.Įxplaining further, the performer said she was “at the laundromat - talk about glamour!” and heard about a law on the local Fox News in New York where “employees who have transitioned at work are protected in cases where Will became Wilma. Lady Bunny mocks political correctness in her act, and mentions how a common phrase like, “Hey, you guys!” has been deemed sexist because it ignores women. The act is a mix of cabaret and comedy - “a dirty, raunchy, twisted romp with songs,” the chanteuse said in a recent phone interview, that asks, “What can we still laugh at?” 28, at the Rrazz Room at the Raven in New Hope. The irrepressible Lady Bunny will perform her hit show “Trans-Jester!” one night only, Jan.