坎迪丝凯恩变性路上的光荣与梦想_时事

坎迪丝凯恩变性路上的光荣与梦想

But there was one thing standing in the way of a transition. “I was flat broke, Ms. Cayne said.

但是变性有个难题。“当时我身无分文，凯恩说。

Through a transgender club doorwoman named Paris, Ms. Cayne began getting black-markethormones. Surgeries took place in a decrepit basement in Guadalajara, Mexico.

通过一个名叫帕里斯(Paris)的变性人俱乐部看门人，凯恩开始从黑市上购买荷尔蒙。手术在墨西哥瓜达拉哈拉的一个破旧的地下室进行。

To help pay for her nose job, the club promoter Marc Berkley hosted a benefit at the Palladiumaround 1996.

1996年左右，为了给凯恩筹集鼻子整容的费用，俱乐部推广员马克·伯克利(Marc Berkley)在守护神俱乐部(Palladium)举办了一场义演。

“There was a dunking booth, and all the girls got in and you would pay to dunk the queens, andthe money went to getting Candis a new nose, said the drag performer Sherry Vine, one ofseveral performers who participated.

“那里有一个扣篮浸泡机(dunking booth)，所有的女孩都进去，观众付费投篮，投中后，变装皇后们就会掉进水里，筹集的钱给坎迪丝整鼻子，变装演员雪莉·瓦因(Sherry Vine)说。她是其中一位表演参与者。

After Ms. Cayne completed her transition, she moved into the cabaret world, often performingat the Viceroy, a since-shuttered Chelsea restaurant, where her signature move was to take hershow into the street, where she would continue to lip-sync and dance while climbing onto thehoods of taxicabs, as the audience watched through the plate-glass windows.