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A Freer Way to Tango

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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 […]

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2 responses to “A Freer Way to Tango”

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    Denise Bevington

    Beautiful – thank you for sharing this perspective. I’ll mention here how traditional gender roles in dancing have always been an issue for me – what an amazing and inspirational transformation you are part of. I look forward to your book!

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