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Kim Christy

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Kim Christy (born 1950) was a female impersonator of the 1960s and 1970s, magazine editor and publisher,[1] book author,[2] screenwriter,[3] adult film producer,[4] and first genderfluid person to be inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

Early life

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Christy was born Ken Olsen to Gertie Olsen[5] and her husband in the Bronx, New York. Christy was raised in the Bronx, where he attended Catholic school at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.[5] He began dressing in semi-drag and going out in public at age 14.[5] At age 15, he met Billy Schumacher, whose drag name was International Chrysis, at the Tenth of Always, a bar.[5] In 1964, when the two appeared, in drag, in Life magazine by chance, Christy's parents reacted poorly, ushering him out of the house "within a year or two."[5] Christy and Chrysis came to share a small apartment on Mott Street, near Broome Street and Houston,[5] in what later became known as SoHo in New York.

Career

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Christy first became a model with the help of Lenny Burtman, an editor for the fetish magazine Exotique.[6] She then became a stripper and showgirl at Club 82. She toured the United States as a female impersonator, subsequently working as a photographer for the publications Mode Avantgarde, Hooker, Eros, and Exposé.[4] She eventually became editor of the publication Female Mimics[7][8] and the aforementioned Exotique. Part of Female Mimics was the She-Male calendar.[9] Years later, he edited the original Exotique issues into book form,[10] then published a historical survey of sex and fetish images called The Christy Report (2001).[2]

Awards

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  • Best Fetish Producer (1998)
  • Adult Video News Hall Of Fame inductee (2004)[11]

Filmography

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Though Christy's full filmography is unknown, some relics of his work remain online.[12][13]

Year Film Distributor
1980 Dreamlovers
1981 She-Male Encounters
1981 She-Male Encounters 2
1983 Divine Atrocities 2
1983 Corrupt Desires
1983 Sulka's Wedding
1984 Sulka's Daughter
1984 True Crimes of Passion Caballero Home Video
1985 Mama's Boy
1985 Squalor Motel
1985 She-Male Salsa
1985 Desperate Women
1987 She-Male Encounters 13: She-Male Reformatory
1988 She-Male Sanitarium
1988 She-Male Encounters 18: Murder She-Male Wrote
1988 She-Male Encounters 17: She-Male Sorority
1989 Sulka's Nightclub
1989 She-Male Encounters 19: Toga Party
1990 Trisexual Encounters 11 Pleasure Productions
1993 My Girl Sin City
1993 My Girl: Transaction 2
1997 She-Males Down Under Leoram Inc.
1997 Boy Chicks I Sin City
1997 Boy Chicks II Sin City
1997 Blue Bunny Caper
1999 She-Male Sorority Secrets
2001 She-Male Cherry Busters I Leoram Inc.
2002 Revenge of the She-Males

References

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  1. ^ Vera, Veronica (October 8, 2002). Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success: A Resource Guide for Boys Who Want to Be Girls. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9780679647263 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b Quinn, John; Christy, Kim (2001). The Christy Report. Ediz. Inglese, francese e tedesca. Taschen. ISBN 3822862142.
  3. ^ "Sulka's Wedding" – via www.imdb.com.
  4. ^ a b Quinn, John; Christy, Kim (January 10, 2001). The Christy Report. Ediz. inglese, francese e tedesca. Taschen. ISBN 9783822862148 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "Kim Christy's Lost World". www.advocate.com. February 12, 2011.
  6. ^ "Exotique Complete by Christy - AbeBooks". www.abebooks.com.
  7. ^ "F.M.I. Female mimics international". MAGCORP, the Magazine Corporation of America. January 10, 1991 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ "Subject: Kim Christy - Digital Transgender Archive Search Results". www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net.
  9. ^ Halperin, David M.; Traub, Valerie (January 10, 2009). Gay Shame. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226314389 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Noble, Barnes &. "Exotique|Hardcover". Barnes & Noble.
  11. ^ AVN, Heidi Pike-Johnson. "Evil Angel, Wicked Pictures Big Winners at 2004 AVN Awards AVN". AVN.
  12. ^ "Internet Adult Film Database". www.iafd.com.
  13. ^ "Kim Christy". IMDb.