blackundertaker:transstudent: kaylapocalypse:femmevoid:damnitamber:From Casa Susanna: Photogra
blackundertaker:transstudent: kaylapocalypse: femmevoid: damnitamber: From Casa Susanna: Photographs from a 1950s Trans Hideaway these photos of casa susanna were the first pictures i ever saw of trans women in the past and theyve been important to me since coming out these pictures are very rare and very important. Read the full story of Casa Susanna here. “It’s all the pleasures and none of the pain [of being a woman], because it’s a fantasy,” Fierstein notes. “It has nothing to do with being a real woman — except that some of these men went on to become women.”The above is from the rather reductive and outdated Time article. Which clearly attempts to erase the trans community from history. At least from Fierstein’s POV, but still the article did nothing to counter him on this.Susanna Valenti was of Latin American decent, an immigrant, and -near the end of her historical records- stopped using male pronouns completely. She and her wife opened Casa Susanna to be a safehaven for people who were gender non-conforming. Why try to belittle that by attempting to force a heterosexual blanket over the whole thing? It’s just not necessary.Here’s another article to gather further, more accurate, insight on the delightful Casa Susanna. -- source link