Kim Christy (born 1950) was a female impersonator of the 1960s and 1970s, magazine editor and publisher, book author, screenwriter, adult film producer, and first genderfluid person to be inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.
Early life
Christy was born to Gertie Olsen and her husband in the Bronx, New York. Christy was raised in the Bronx, where they attended Catholic school at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. They began dressing in semi-drag and going out in public at age 14. At age 15, they met Billy Schumacher, whose drag name was International Chrysis, at the Tenth of Always, a bar. In 1964, when the two appeared, in drag, in Life magazine by chance, Christy's parents reacted poorly, kicking them out of the house "within a year or two." Christy and Chrysis came to share a small apartment on Mott Street, near Broome Street and Houston, in what later became known as SoHo in New York.
Career Christy first became a model with the help of Lenny Burtman, an editor for the fetish magazine Exotique. 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. She eventually became editor of the publication Female Mimics and the aforementioned Exotique. Part of Female Mimics was the She-Male calendar. Years later, he edited the original Exotique issues into book form, then published a historical survey of sex and fetish images called The Christy Report (2001).
Awards Best Fetish Producer (1998) Adult Video News Hall Of Fame inductee (2004)
Filmography Though Christy's full filmography is unknown, some relics of his work remain online.
YearFilmDistributor1980Dreamlovers1981She-Male Encounters1981 She-Male Encounters 21983Divine Atrocities 21983Corrupt Desires1983Sulka's Wedding1984Sulka's Daughter1984True Crimes of PassionCaballero Home Video1985Mama's Boy1985Squalor Motel1985She-Male Salsa1985Desperate Women 1987She-Male Encounters 13: She-Male Reformatory1988She-Male Sanitarium1988She-Male Encounters 18: Murder She-Male Wrote1988She-Male Encounters 17: She-Male Sorority1989Sulka's Nightclub1989She-Male Encounters 19: Toga Party1990Trisexual Encounters 11Pleasure Productions1993My GirlSin City1993My Girl: Transaction 21997She-Males Down UnderLeoram Inc.1997Boy Chicks ISin City1997Boy Chicks IISin City1997Blue Bunny Caper 1999She-Male Sorority Secrets2001She-Male Cherry Busters ILeoram Inc.2002Revenge of the She-Males
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