Opinion

Xtra Hot: Chy

Chy is a burlesque and pole dancer who performs under the stage name Axel Blows

By Drasko Bogdanovic • January 7, 2014 2:57 pm EDT

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Name: Chy Ryan Spain, aka Axel Blows

Age: 35

Sign: Scorpio

Chy moved to Toronto from Philadelphia shortly after Bush got reelected. He drinks Jack Daniel’s and has an expensive shoe habit. You can find him onstage at Buddies in Bad Times during WorldPride in a remount of Sheila Cavanagh’s Queer Bathroom Monologues, along with Hallie Burt and Tyson James. Chy is a burlesque and pole dancer who performs under the stage name Axel Blows. He recently snatched the title at the first-ever Bent Beauty Supreme Pageant at the Gladstone Hotel.

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