Casa Susanna | Chapter 1 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS 

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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 RU-vid channel.