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Buck Angel

Buck Angel is an American adult film actor. He is believed to be the first, possibly only, and arguably the most well-known transman porn star and one of the most well-known transsexual pornographic actors to date.[1][2][3]

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[edit] Personal life

According to his website, Angel was a pronounced tomboy as a child and adolescent. Unaware of the existence of sexual reassignment surgery, he lived for years as a female, dulling his gender dysphoria with drugs and alcohol. Though he was profitably employed as a professional model, he has stated that he was generally dissatisfied with his identity and existence and "was not loving life".[4]

[edit] Adult film career

Angel began to star in adult fetish films. As he has not had complete genital reassignment surgery and still possesses female genitalia, he was able to occupy a unique niche, proudly calling himself "a guy with a pussy". Finding that there weren't any FTM actors like himself in the market, he started a website and his career skyrocketed. He took the stage name "Buck Angel" from the footballer Juan Pablo Angel, due to being a life-long Aston Villa supporter.[citation needed]

In 2005, he also became the first FTM to feature in an all-male porn film produced by an exclusively gay porn company. This was the Titan release Cirque Noir.[5] [6]

In January 2007, Angel won Transsexual Performer of the Year at the AVN Awards,[7]

In September 2008 he flew to London, where British artist Marc Quinn made a life-size sculpture of Buck Angel, to be included in the sculptor's upcoming global tour.[citation needed]

In October 2008 Angel appeared in director Ed Powers' new book NAKED about the adult film industry. He filmed a sex scene with porn star Wolf Hudson for an accompanying documentary film NAKED, produced by mainstream photographer Justin Lubin.[8]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Interview with Buck Angel by Gerry Visco for New York Press
  2. ^ Interview with Buck Angel from Eros-Zine.com
  3. ^ Buck Angel Interview in GV Weekly
  4. ^ Angel, Buck. "About Buck Angel". http://www.buck-angel.com/blog/?page_id=2. Retrieved 2008-07-07. 
  5. ^ http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2006/09/my_friend_steve.html
  6. ^ http://www.bananaguide.com/cgi-bin/mri/mri_title.cgi?title_ID=2457
  7. ^ "AVN Awards Past Winners". http://www.avnawards.com/index.php?content=pastwinners. Retrieved 2008-07-07. 
  8. ^ [1]. Buck Angel, Ed Powers directed documentary "NAKED". Retrieved October 28, 2008.

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