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.
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
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]
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