Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968 - Hardcoverby Isabelle Bonnet (Author), Sophie Hackett (Author), Susan Stryker (Introduction by) In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women, gender nonconforming people, and men who dressed as women found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills, New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed dressed as and living as women without fear of