Tag: cross dressing
Is Ed Wood’s 1953 film GLEN or GLENDA the worse movie of all time OR a queer cult classic?
It’s not often that movie critics are united in their opinions but when it came to Ed Wood’s 1953 GLEN OR GLENDA they were united and proclaimed it the worst film ever. Strangely enough, the 4 time Academy Award-nominated Best Director (he won once) David Lynch has declared one of his favorite film of…
Queerguru reviews “Casa Susanna” the 1950s/60s/Catskills resort discreet refuge for cross-dressing men and transgender women.
The award-winning queer filmmaker Sebastien Lifshitz, whose day job is as a Professor at La Fémis the film and television school of PSL Research University new film CASA SUZANNA is his third documentary with transgenderism as the subject matter. Bambi, his spell-binding story Marie-Pierre Pruvot, an Algerian, born trans woman who had a long and…
Grayson Perry : The Vanity of Small Differences
Grayson Perry is a Turner Prize-winning English contemporary artist, writer, and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries[ as well as his observations of the contemporary art scene, and for dissecting British “prejudices, fashions and foibles“. He is also one of the country’s most famous inhibited crossdressers. His new exhibition currently touring…
The Secret Weekends at Casa Susanna
In the early 1960’s Susanna Valenti and her wife Marie ran Casa Susanna a popular weekend destination for cross-dressing men and transgender women. It was situated on a large private estate in the Catskills in NY in a town called Jewett where the two women also ran a wig store. Way ahead of its time Casa Susanna provided…
The Chunta : where men have been dressing up like women for centuries
Queer filmmaker Genevieve Roudané debut documentary is a fascinating study of a queer gang of gender-bending dancers fighting to exist in Chiapa de Corzo a remote small town in Mexico. To celebrate the old year ending and the New Year beginning the men dress up as women for a Fiesta night of dancing and…
