Gay tango ftival puts new sp on Argente dance | Rters

Contents:

• THE HISTORY OF THE TANGO IS ACTUALLY KD OF GAY
• GAY TANGO BUENOS AIR: TAKG THE MILONGA BACK TO S ROOTS
• DANCG SCFFY CHEEK-TO-SCFFY CHEEK: GAY TANGO
• GAY TANGO FTIVAL PUTS NEW SP ON ARGENTE DANCE

THE HISTORY OF THE TANGO IS ACTUALLY KD OF GAY

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. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny.

While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn.

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

And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive.

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men. The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all.

DANCG SCFFY CHEEK-TO-SCFFY CHEEK: GAY TANGO

On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist).

They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police. Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer.

GAY TANGO FTIVAL PUTS NEW SP ON ARGENTE DANCE

Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.”. The term queer, like the term homosexual, has a b of a troubled history.

However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label. Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. In 1990, this effort foced on queer as a llective term for gay and lbian people.

Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny.