Cookie Buffet is the drag queen alter-ego of Washington, D.C. based gay rights activist Christopher Dyer. Dyer was born in Ann Arbor, MI in 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, as well as at a variety of discothèques and gay pride events, that Dyer does nontraditional drag performances as Cookie.