Official website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/casa-susanna/
ABOUT THE FILM: 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. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed—dressed as and living as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their gender presentation. Told through the memories of those who visited the house, CASA SUSANNA provides a moving look back at a secret world where the persecuted and frightened found freedom, acceptance and, often, the courage to live out of the shadows.
CASA SUSANNA premieres Tuesday, June 27 at 9/8 central on PBS, PBS.org and here on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s YouTube channel.
