Casa Susanna

Casa Susanna was a popular weekend destination in Jewett, New York in the United States,[1] for cross-dressing men and transgender women in the early 1960s.

[2] The bungalow camp was run by Susanna Valenti[3] and her wife Maria, who also ran a wig store in town.

[1] Maria purchased the 150 acre property in the mid 1950s; originally, the Valentis had dubbed it Chevalier D'Eon Resort.

Hidden away in the rural Catskills, Casa Susanna provided much needed privacy to its guests, in a time when public cross-dressing was a criminal offense across most of America.

There, they were found by Robert Swope, "a gentle punk rocker turned furniture dealer", who bought every photograph he could find and published them in a book with his partner Michel Hurst.