Kim Christy

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

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]

Awards

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

Filmography

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

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. 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. Quinn, John; Christy, Kim (January 10, 2001). The Christy Report. Ediz. inglese, francese e tedesca. Taschen. ISBN 9783822862148 – via Google Books.
5. "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.