Encore Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York.
Guests of Casa Susanna, posing in the cabaret built in the property's barn. Susanna is sitting on the floor in the front. Kate Cummings is in the middle of the back row. Circa 1962.In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York.
Using a rich trove of color photos of Casa Susanna’s guests, archival footage and personal remembrances, the film introduces us to Diana and Kate, two people whose lives were forever changed at Casa Susanna. We join them as they travel back to the now-abandoned site and share their memories of a time when people like them, from all over the country, came to a place where they were free to dress and live as women from morning to night.
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