In 1995, trans women Rusty Mae Moore and Chelsea Goodwin opened their home—which Moore owned—in Park Slope, Brooklyn to be used as a transgender collective.

“…it was sort of unique for trans people to own a house in New York, so other people started to say, ‘I need a place to live. Can I come and live with you?’”—Rusty Mae Moore, 2005.

The collective operated until 2008, and was the last residence of Sylvia Rivera before her passing.

Park Slope is and was at the time a decidedly expensive place to live.  In founding Transy house, Moore and Goodwin used what access to resources they had as white middle-class

trans people in order to build a support network for folks who did not have that kind of access.