During the counterculture chaos of 1960s and ’70s New York City, amidst the avant-garde art scene eddying around Andy Warhol’s Factory, the transgender actress Candy Darling was striving to live her best life as a woman. Born into a body that never felt like her own, Candy found purpose in this haven, where gender norms were challenged, identity was fluid, and the mashup of celebrity worship and creativity reigned supreme. For the 20-something disrupter, who portrayed a range of characters in Warhol’s and other off-off indie films, fitting in meant embracing her true self, even as society outside the Factory walls rejected her Tinsel Town aspirations and the transsexual
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