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Sandy Ernest Allen drove across the Catskills this year looking for Casa Susanna, the guesthouse where transfeminine people gathered through the '50s and '60s for twenty-five dollars a weekend. He found new construction. Hedges in burlap where the old trees stood. No plaque of any kind. What he had instead was his own living room, full of trans and queer neighbors eating cookies — gatherings he started after the 2025 inauguration for no better reason than that people needed somewhere to be. The house was the smaller half. The gathering is the part that survived, and it survived by being taken apart and rebuilt in a different county by a man who never met her and knew her only from photographs somebody found at a flea market. Susanna Valenti ran an entire guesthouse. I run a kitchen table in Georgia. It counts. This one is kept standing by readers. If it's worth a morning to you, the door's here: https://twp.ai/4huUPu Who kept a door open for you when it cost them something? #QueerHistory #TransHistory #CasaSusanna #LGBTQ #TransRights #Community #MutualAid #Pride #Solidarity #Photography #QuoteOfTheDay #Memory