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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 Ken Olsen to Gertie Olsen 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. He began dressing in semi-drag and going out in public at age 14. At age 15, he 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, ushering him 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.

• LGBTQ

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.

• LGBTQ people from New York (state)
• People from the Bronx
• Male-to-female cross-dressers
• AVN Award winners
• American drag queens
• People from SoHo, Manhattan
• 1950 births
• Living people
• Genderfluid people
• Non-binary drag performers