A Freer Way to Tango

I was fortunate to be present at the birth of this movement when Augusto organized the first gay milongas in Buenos Aires. Lalo and Roxana Gargano went table to table offering plates of cookies they’d brought from their family’s bakery. It was all very homespun. Nevertheless, we sensed that something momentous was happening that night. And so it was. We couldn’t have known it then but queer tango would become the most important development in tango since Astor Piazzolla and would thrust the backward-looking, century-old art form into the modern world […]