Mimi Marks is a transgender entertainer. She performs at The Baton Show Lounge in Chicago, Illinois.Mimi was born "Mark" in Waterloo, Iowa, but grew up in Oelwein, Iowa. As a boy, she recalls feeling "uncomfortable in her body," and had the "most difficult time" in her physical education class because, she says, "I didn't fit in at all."After undergoing some sex-reassignment surgeries (due to stipulations in employment contracts, Marks hasn't had complete sexual reassignment), Marks became Mimi. According to Trantasia [1], a transsexual beauty pageant documentary, she has lived as a woman since she was 21 years old. Marks started performing in Milwaukee at a club called Dance, Dance, Dance with help from an Australian performer, Holly Brown. Marks says that, for transwomen in Chicago, the test of whether they can pass as women is to appear in public at Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs: “"If you could walk through Wrigley-ville, like, during a Cubs game and not get 'spooked,' and not have anybody call you out, you were like the 'girl-iest' girl, you made it. I called [a friend] and said, 'I am at a Cubs game on first base, eleventh row. I made it. I'm a girl!'" [2]In 1986, Marks won her first pageant title: Ms. Waterloo 1986. She has also won Miss International Queen, Pattaya, Thailand; The World's Most Beautiful Transsexual Contest, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; and Miss Continental, Chicago, Illinois, USA.In 2008 Marks appeared in Janet Jackson's music video Rock With U.Marks is reported to have been the first ever openly transsexual runway model, working for the Ford Modeling agency.
Can be seen performing at The Baton Show Lounge in Chicago Illinois on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, 3 shows a night at 8:30pm, 10:30pm and 12:30pm. [2006]
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In 1992, she won the title of Miss Continental, the United States largest and most prestigious transsexual beauty pageant.
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In October of 2005, she won the Miss International Queen Pageant in Thailand, the equivalent of a Miss America Pageant in the United States,sponsored by Coca Cola, hosted by the "Matt Lauer" of Bangkok and broadcast live on ITV.
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In 2004, she won The World's Most Beautiful Transsexual Pageant held in Las Vegas and filmed for a feature documentary release in 2006 entitled Trantasia.