Kisses was voted Favorite Trans Cam Model at the 2021 AVN Awards, and this year she received a personal-record six nominations, the most of any trans performer. Only a small group of performers-in any genre-carry as much clout as Kisses, who has shot for nearly every major studio while working alongside some of the most recognizable names in the business. Her only goal, she said, was to “blend in.” Yet five years later, with a six-figure income and nearly one million followers on social media, she’s blossomed into one of the top trans stars in history. Seeking a fresh start-and an escape from Miami-Kisses moved to Vegas in 2016 and joined the adult industry. Smiling constantly as her eyes twinkle, Kisses’ voice radiates with energy as she zig-zags from topic to topic: cliff-diving, makeup, camping trips, gaming, Cadillacs, dogs, nail salons, money. As her girlfriend arranges slices of marinated beef on a tabletop grill, Kisses pours a Coca-Cola into a glass and begins to describe her world in Sin City. On this afternoon she’s lounging in a corner booth at Master Kim’s, a snazzy Korean BBQ joint a few miles from her home near the Las Vegas Strip. Two decades later-in what indeed feels like a new existence-Kisses is doing exactly that. Maybe in my next life, I’ll get to live the way I want to live.’” “Every morning,” Kisses says, “I’d open my eyes and think, ‘I wish I was in a different life. She had to continue to live as Cameron, a male, instead of getting an earlier start on the gender transition that eventually shaped her into who she is today: a confident, walk-into-a-pole gorgeous woman with cascading brown hair, flawless olive skin and a smile that can change someone’s day. To protect herself and prevent strain on her family, she had no choice but to suppress her spirit back then. And he wouldn’t find support from his mother, a drug addict who’d abandoned him for pills and liquor.Ĭameron also knew his secret would trigger heckling and bullying from the neighborhood kids in Miami’s Little Haiti, a community so crippled by crime that Cameron and his siblings often slept on the floor to avoid stray bullets that could shatter the window.Įven now, Casey Kisses says that was probably best. I must be gay.”Ĭameron, a third-grader, folded the note just before bedtime and handed it to the only person he could trust: his 6-year-old sister Teagan, who was far too young to grasp the magnitude of his confession.Ĭameron certainly couldn’t confide in his murderous father, who would soon begin a 13-year prison sentence for bashing in a man’s skull with a hammer. LAS VEGAS - The 8-year-old boy with the short brown hair and hand-me-down jeans scribbled his secret onto a piece of paper.
A version of this feature appears in the February issue of AVN magazine.
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