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New York institution and Wigstock founder Lady Bunny sounds off about Madonna, Paris Hilton and Armageddon. Katrina Fox listened in.
?Madonna is all hype. She?s not a great singer, she?s not a great dancer; she?s pretty, but so is my mother.? It?s comments like this that prompted a deluge of irate responses from the gay community to the blog of drag queen extraordinaire Lady Bunny recently. Speaking to SX from her home in New York, the multi-skilled performer (her talents include MC, DJ, songwriter and stand-up comedian), admits she was shocked that her criticism of the pop singer was seen as blasphemy by so many queer people. ?What ticked me off was Madonna?s use of the crucifix, not because I have any allegiance to Catholicism or Christianity, I just think it?s so fucking cheap,? Bunny says. ?It?s empty controversy calculated to raise eyebrows and sell tickets. For some reason that I don?t understand, people are so attached to Madonna that they couldn?t even listen to what I was saying. They would continue to attack me, saying ?you?re fat?, ?you could never fill Madison Square Garden like Madonna does?. But that doesn?t make my opinion any less valid ? it shows people have been brainwashed by Madonna?s very effective marketing strategy.?