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  • Posted by Bebe Brum November 1, 2014 #  #crossdressing  1,149 views
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    Casa Susanna” was the name of a house in Hunter, New York, a safe haven for heterosexual males who liked to dress as women, a setting where they could indulge something approximating their true selves, an act that would be scorned in the regular society in which the Don Drapers of the world operated.

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  • Pauline Smith Yes that would be great Bebe, they are rather amazing considering the attitudes of the time. People talk about the "swinging sixties" but they were still restrictive and attitudes towards transvestites were very intolerant. P xx
  • Pauline Smith I did some digging this morning and found that there is a new play based on Casa Simone, called Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein. This showed in New York June 2014. link attached hugs Pauline xxx http://www.theaterscene.net/plays/casa-valentina/victor-gluck/
  • rita clark I can't remember where I ran into casa Susana before, it was somewhere on a previous computer. I'll have to get out the thumb drives and try to find it. When I was growing up in the 60's there was a club over a store on Market St in Hamilton ON that had...  more
  • Pauline Smith You can actually buy the book Casa Susanna in North America - check via Amazon seems to be the best source Rita. And as you say its good to know something about those of us who went before, though of course being transgendered didn't start in the 1960s...  more