WATCH: This Catskills home was an underground haven for trans women and queens pre-Stonewall
Wild Side, Little Girl), Casa Susanna combines archival footage, rare photography, and first-person accounts from the women who visited all those decades ago, telling its story as well as the forgotten life of Susanna Valenti, the courageous army veteran who ran the home.Among those interviewed is an incredible woman named Diana, who found the courage to transition after moving to New York City and making multiple visits to the Catskills haven.
In the documentary, she’s invited to travel back to the abandoned site and share her memories from a pivotal time in her life.Queerty is thrilled to share an exclusive early clip from the film, in which Diana recounts moving to New York with the woman she loved at the time, visiting with renowned sexologist Harry Benjamin, and eventually making the decision to undergo gender-affirming surgery.You can watch the clip here:Casa Susanna premiered last fall at the Venice International Film Festival, and now is set to make its debut on PBS on Tuesday, June 27 at 9pm ET (it will simultaneously become available via PBS.org and on the PBS app).
