Cookie Buffet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Cookie Buffet

American drag queen

Date of Birth: 20-May-1970

Place of Birth: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Profession: drag queen

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Cookie Buffet

  • Cookie Buffet is the alter-ego of Washington, D.C.
  • based gay rights activist Christopher Dyer.
  • Dyer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on (1970-05-20) May 20, 1970 and moved to D.C.
  • in 1975.
  • He has since become a fixture of the gay community there.
  • Dyer's primary work has been with GLBT youth and he established Youth Pride Day, an annual event since 1997.
  • It is there that Dyer appears as Cookie.
  • Dyer has used his alter-ego to raise considerable amounts of money for the community.Buffet/Dyer is known almost exclusively in Washington, D.C.
  • but his popularity there is extreme and widespread.
  • He has been elected to public office on more than one occasion, most recently in March 2005 as ANC Commissioner for the Logan Circle Neighborhood.
  • In 2007, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty appointed Dyer to be the Director of the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs, a position he held until being replaced be a new mayor in 2011.
  • In addition to Youth Pride Day, Dyer has served as program director of the 2012 Gay Men's Health Summit and is a strong proponent of using pride as a way to combat health disparities.

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