Gay Tango Buenos Air: Brgg the Dance Back to s Roots

Contents:

• GAY TANGO BUENOS AIR: TAKG THE MILONGA BACK TO S ROOTS
• THE HISTORY OF THE TANGO IS ACTUALLY KD OF GAY
• DANCG SCFFY CHEEK-TO-SCFFY CHEEK: GAY TANGO
• GAY TANGO FTIVAL PUTS NEW SP ON ARGENTE DANCE
• GAY TANGO FTIVAL PUTS NEW SP ON ARGENTE DANCE
• GAY TANGO? - BUENOS AIR FOM
• ENJOY THE BT OF GAY ARGENTA: OM VIBRANT TOWNS TO THE MOST AMAZG NATNAL PARKS
• GAY & LBIAN PACKAG

GAY TANGO BUENOS AIR: TAKG THE MILONGA BACK TO S ROOTS

Gay Milongas Buenos AirTango Entre MuchachosTango QueerBayr Folk. Gay Milongas Buenos Air. LGBT tourists have known for years that Argenta’s pal, Buenos Air, is one of Lat Ameri’s bt statns for gay travelers.

In 2010, the untry legalized gay marriage and passed some of the most progrsive trans laws the world. The huge yearly gay pri para November has now turned to a week-long celebratn. Consirg s gay iendls, perhaps ’s not surprisg that gay ongas have popped up everywhere Buenos Air over the past .

Straight femal take notice — gay ongas are the bt plac to learn both rol, whout the macho unrton ually attributed to the dance some straight tango tablishments.

THE HISTORY OF THE TANGO IS ACTUALLY KD OF GAY

While tango onga’s e and go, below are some of the most endurg gay tango spots Buenos Air. A big draw for male gay tango enthiasts who are jt startg to learn the dance is Saturday Tango Entre Muchachos at Lugar Gay.

Reasonably priced two-and-half hour class tak place at San Telmo’s olst gay guthoe, Lugar Gay. Milonga ‘La Marshall’ started 2005 and claims to be the first gay onga Buenos Air (at least this century!

DANCG SCFFY CHEEK-TO-SCFFY CHEEK: GAY TANGO

Lugar Gay. The low-key black and whe tiled dance floor is a nice, non-timidatg place to practice your steps, whether gay or straight.

Buenos Air is now a progrsive enough cy that no one will blk twice if same-sex upl dance at more morn younger ongas even if they are not specifilly targeted to gay and lbian dancers.

GAY TANGO FTIVAL PUTS NEW SP ON ARGENTE DANCE

One place for gay and lbian tangueros to dance among a mix of straight and gay upl (and perhaps clouds of marijuana smoke! Another popular optn for a hetero and gay-iendly environment is La Vita.

→ If you’re Buenos Air November, you n’t miss Buenos Air Gay Pri Para.

→ An annual LGBTQ event Mendoza: Vendimia Gay. → Read about Gay nightlife Mendoza. Although Argenta is ahead of the curve terms of LGBTQ policy – gay marriage was sanctned 2010 and a Genr Inty Law makg sex-change surgery a legal right was passed 2012 – society remas overwhelmgly machista.

GAY TANGO FTIVAL PUTS NEW SP ON ARGENTE DANCE

There was no place for socializg and dancg and piano and wood floors and drsg up, ” says men began dancg tango wh an eye to woog women, Trenner says there was certaly a “semi-secret” gay culture. You have to have embodied experience of both parts to be good at eher, ” he La Marshall, a gay onga Buenos Air, tango stctor Augto Balizano says that he believ men practicg tango together the past was often an erotic experience for those who were secretly gay.

And so there are still some nservative tango dancers who see two men dancg together as shockg, and a flamboyant heterosexual uple as the proper though gay ongas still face some opposn, two men dancg together is the most tradnal form of the tango. Gay Argenta.

Gay Buenos Air alive after dark. At the gay onga, known as La Marshall, you'll fd several kds of upl dancg: women wh women and a few mixed-genr upl — but mostly men wh men. In the past , nuevo tango, which electronic mic is mixed wh Belle Epoch classics, has the younger generatn Buenos Air of the latt trends, gay and queer tango, are attractg dancers om across the world to Buenos Air.

GAY TANGO? - BUENOS AIR FOM

Many trace gay tango back to one man: Augto Balzano, who tours ternatnally to teach gay tango. When he's town, he teach tango at Lugar Gay, a guthoe exclively for men the neighborhood of San Telmo.

A profsnal tango dancer, he says that gay tango wasn't a liberate movement; jt happened. "Then the next time another uple of gay men joed .

ENJOY THE BT OF GAY ARGENTA: OM VIBRANT TOWNS TO THE MOST AMAZG NATNAL PARKS

Now we have gay lsons and a gay onga. "Inditive of major chang Argente society, the gay tango is somethg of a perfect storm that me about om an enomic crisis, improved civil rights for homosexuals and a revival tango's long-standg dictatorship Argenta that lasted om 1976 to 1983 nsired anythg different to be subversive.

Even followg the fall of the dictatorship, though there were no actual laws directly discrimatg agast homosexuals. And bee had bee such an affordable trip — pric were down by more than a third — both straight and gay tourists realized they uld eat steak, drk Malbec and dance the tango for a third the regular price. Even those who didn't go to Buenos Air to learn tango would bee smten by the art rights for homosexuals gradually improved, and 2002 Buenos Air' Cy Council passed a measure regnizg same-sex civil unns and extendg health surance and pensn rights to same-sex partners.

GAY & LBIAN PACKAG

Sce then, the cy has worked hard to attract gay visors, creatg a gay tourist map and prentg at gay travel a rult, Buenos Air has bee a very popular statn for gay travelers, and acrdg to Hector Aguilar, an archectural historian who giv lectur for Lugar Gay, "It now rivals R as the gay statn South Ameri. "One gay man, who asked to rema anonymo, me to Buenos Air om his hometown of Montreal for almost three months to pe the Canadian wter. "I heard about at a gay travel nventn, and realized that not only was expensive, but there was a lot to do here, " he says.

There are more gay ongas startg, and even some of the straight on are beg open to same-sex upl. "Gay tango is the natural oute of the social chang Buenos Air, and the cy hosted the first Queer Tango Ftival last year.