Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the tireless drive toward progress, it’s easy to forget the past. When it comes to queer history, discrimination and fear of ...

Though the Borscht Belt is famous as the birthplace of Jewish comedy, it’s less associated with the transgender movement. But the Catskills’ Jewish history is deeply intertwined with its past as one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With coiffed black hair, pearls, a hand on her hip and a high-heeled pointed toe, a woman poses jubilantly for the camera on the ...

The trans community has a long history, but all too often, the archives are buried, hidden behind the firmest of closet doors, and under threat of being forever lost. Certainly, this is no truer than ...

Andrea Susan, "Daphne sitting on a lawn chair with Ann, Susanna and a friend outside, Casa Susanna, Hunter, NY" (1964–68); chromogenic print; Art Gallery of Ontario (all images courtesy Metropolitan ...

Tucked in a corner of the Catskills, Casa Susanna was a modest private resort where cross-dressing heterosexual men and transgender women gathered on summer weekends through the 1950s and ‘60s to live ...

Venice: Sebastien Lifshitz's lovingly crafted documentary uncovers an upstate oasis for trans women and crossdressers in the '50s and '60s. In the tireless drive toward progress, it’s easy to forget ...

With coiffed black hair, pearls, a hand on her hip and a high-heeled pointed toe, a woman poses jubilantly for the camera on the steps outside her home. Her name is Susanna Valenti, and her home is ...