Bugs Bunny celebrated Pride Month with a Twitter drag show

[Behind the Aegis]

While the far-right has demonized drag queens as predators intent on turning kids transgender, they’ve conveniently forgotten the long history drag has in American entertainment. So who better to remind them than the ultimate gender bender?

Looney Tunes celebrated the beginning of Pride Month with a Twitter drag show. Bugs served up six different looks from various decades of his hilarious crossdressing.

Bugs, most famously voiced by Mel Blanc, made drag a career within a career, appearing in over 40 cartoons in lipstick and/or a dress, from his cross-dressing debut in Hare-um Scare-um in 1939 to Joe Dante’s Looney Tunes: Back in Action in 2003, when Bugs confronts a Warner Bros. VP played by Jenna Elfman and cracks wise, “Lady, if you don’t find a rabbit with lipstick amusing, you and I have nothing to say to each other.”

But the replies continued the fun and celebration of the queer community by the Acme intern running the account, fans, and corporations.

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[sheshe2]

1. Recommend!

[republianmushroom]

2. I like it

Heads exploding,.

[iluvtennis]

3. Love it - thanks for posting this. n/t

[Xavier Breath]

4. Bugs made many question some things.

[CrispyQ]

5. LOL. That scene was my first thought too! -nt

[crickets]

9. Great scene. I love that it was ad-libbed. Myers' surprised laugh is real. nt

[soldierant]

12. I always think of "What's Opera, Doc?"

[sarge43]

14. See below.

It's in the National Film Registry and the Library of Congress deemed it significant.

[MustLoveBeagles]

28. LoL 😂

[KS Toronado]

6. Even Lionel Barrymore did drag.

1936's The Devil-Doll, a fun movie where Lionel can still walk and most of the movie he's in drag and does
an amazing job posing as an old woman.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027521/?ref_=nm_mv_desc

[Xavier Breath]

11. Look, it's Mr. Potter's sister!

[KS Toronado]

17. Is she the meanest woman in Pottersville?

LOL

[Xavier Breath]

21. Nah, I think most nights she off doing dime-a-dance with Violet Bick.

Seriously, though, I'm getting a real Jonathan Winters/Maude Frickert vibe off him

[KS Toronado]

22. Possible mother/daughter?

[Hekate]

7. Yes! Thank you! From my childhood and from long before my birth!

Right wing fanatics are SUCH idiots.

[calimary]

8. Bedroom busybodies, ALL of them.

Like they don’t have ANYTHING else to do.

[Aristus]

10. DU-ers in Florida: Do NOT click the link below.

[sarge43]

13. Bug's best drag moment was Brunnhilde in What's Opera, Doc?

[meow2u3]

15. Bugs in drag in "Rabbit of Seville"

[DemocraticPatriot]

16. SHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!! Tomorrow morning, DeathSantis will be targeting Warner Brothers,

as well as Disney....

[rampartc]

18. "kill da wabbit kill da wabbit" elmer "fudd" desantis

[twodogsbarking]

19. There used to be cartoons before the movie at the movie theater.

Bugs, Road Runner, others.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Now that you mention it I remember that and it was no big deal, just funny!

Was it ever specifically stated Bugs was a male rabbit? i don't recall. It was a cartoon rabbit, i didn't pose it as male or female, just a rabbit.

[wendyb-NC]

23. Very cool

I think Bugs did a great job.

[cannabis_flower]

24. Bugs wasn't the only Looney Tunes character in drag

Link to tweet

?s=46

[twodogsbarking]

25. TIL

[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up,_Doc%3F_(1950_film)#:~:text=What's%20Up%2C%20Doc%3F%20is%20a,from%20the%20%22Disassociated%20Press%22.|

[tonekat]

26. Ha ha, Love it!

There are stamps with Bugs in drag that I want to get as well.

[MustLoveBeagles]

27. K&R