Casa Susanna

In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves.

Casa Susanna was a refuge for transgender women and cross-dressing men in the 1950s-60s.

Through award-winning shows like "RuPaul's Drag Race," drag has re-emerged into American pop culture consciousness. But where does the act come from? How long has it been around? And how is drag different from other kinds of gender nonconforming expression?

Christine Jorgensen was one of the first people to successfully undergo gender affirmation surgery.

Susanna Valenti describes the feeling of being herself among new friends at her hidden resort in the Catskill mountains.