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Argentina Does the Gay Tango


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Argentina isn't only the first Latin American country to allow gay marriage — it is also home to a gay tango festival.

Buenos Aires hosted the festival this past weekend, targeting fans who want to recreate the definitions of masculinity and femininity associated with the dance, Reuters reports.  

"Tango has to adapt, just like a language," dancer Gustavo Aciar said. "And gay tango is enriching the language of tango."

Organizers created the gay tango festival in Argentina following the success of The International Queer Tango Festival.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Don Charles
    Date posted: 7/27/2010 2:22:43 PM
    Hometown: Kansas City

    Comment:

    Back when tango first became popular in Argentina, gauchos danced the tango with one another. I know, because I've seen old photos. Female couples have been commonplace for many years. There is nothing unusual whatsoever about same-gender tango couples, and guess what? You don't have to be Gay in order to dance with another man or woman. It's a shame that gender role bigots and cultural radicals are on the same page here; it's quite pathetic, too. They all pretend it's "queer" to do the tango with other than an opposite-sex partner. That simply isn't true. It never fails to astound me, how LesBiGay folk will marginalize themselves when it makes no sense to do so.

  • Name: ignorant bigot
    Date posted: 7/27/2010 1:15:04 PM
    Hometown: where the "Right" is right

    Comment:

    The traditional definition of Tango is between one man and one woman. If the gays want to have a dance of some kind, that's fine with us fundamentalists, but they have to call it something else. You can't just change the biblical definition of Tango. We won't take it! (just being sarcastic, folks)

  • Name: Fausto Fernandez
    Date posted: 7/27/2010 9:15:27 AM
    Hometown: Alexandria, VA

    Comment:

    Adirondack, I believe you are right. I don't have the reference, but I believe I've read about Tango dancing in the late 19th century. There were many single Italain men in Buenos Aires, and a dearth of Italian females, so men danced with men. Of course, being horny Italians, there ptobably was a lot more than dancing...

  • Name: adirondack
    Date posted: 7/27/2010 7:35:45 AM
    Hometown: new dorlach, ny

    Comment:

    You do realize that the history of this particular dance can be traced to same-sex (though not gay) dancing? That's how the tango started, according to some sources, with men dancing together as a kind of power play.



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