CASA SUSANNA WAS A SECRET RESORT FOR GENDER NON-CONFORMISTS IN THE 1960S
Casa Susanna was founded and managed by Susanna Valenti, sometimes known as Tito, and her wife Maria, who also owned a successful wig store in NYC. Their resort was designed to be a sanctuary for cross-dressing, considered a perversion and largely illegal at the time. People from the city who lived conventional lives, escaped to Casa Susanna for a chance to live freely as women for either a weekend or an entire summer. The extended stay guests often took finishing school classes from Susanna, learning how to hide a 5 o’clock shadow or master walking in pumps.
Those are my kind of people. 🙂 The world has come a long ways, but not far enough. Yet. ❤