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A queer friend I introduced to #ArgentineTango was thinking about moving to #Chicago & asked if there's #tango there. I said idk about *queer* but in general, there must be. Googled the calendar.

This milonga ad made me go 🤮

> It's By Invitation; you may request an invite by e-mail wait for a reply! TangoChicago is home to some of the most beautiful women and interesting men in the city. The ladies that have studied with us are fought over pursued by handsome men in every milonga in Chicago

Some full-length photos from Friday’s Be Here Queer! pride milonga.

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Two women in dresses and heels dance together. In the background, bandoneonist Heyni having a photo taken wirh a stuffed dinosaur.

A person with a long blonde ponytail, wearing a blue jumpsuit, leads someone with shoulder-length curly hair wearing a floral shirt and khaki pants.

Two masked people dance together. One has a long checked dress and loose hair. The other has a white shirt, black pants, and hair in a bun.

More dancing couples from Friday night’s Be Here Queer! milonga, a partner event of World Pride.

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A woman’s rainbow-dotted skirt twirls as she pivots, led by a woman in a black dress and floral head scarf.

A mustachioed man in a black cropped tank top leads a man in a short sleeved shirt while another couple dances in the background and the band plays on stage.

A woman smiles as she leads a taller man around her in a turn.

🚨This is it! Online registration for the 🎉 2025 Philadelphia Tango Festival: May 23-26 (Memorial Day Weekend) closes this Friday, May 16 at midnight.
.... AND for a limited time, you can buy single milongas without purchasing a pass.
Make your plans now and JOIN US!
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Are you coming to DC for World Pride? Do you dance tango? (Or want to give it a try?) We will be hosting a milonga the night before the Pride Parade.

Be Here Queer! Tango Milonga
Friday, June 6th, 2025
8 to 11:30pm

Join the DC Queer Tango Collective and the Cultural Arts Center and Visual and Performing Arts Department of Montgomery College for a night of social tango dancing, with live tango music! We'll get started with a beginners' queer tango dance class at 7pm, followed by dancing from 8 to 11:30pm. Everyone is welcome to our queer-centered space. We gather to celebrate, in joy and community, and we dance to honor those who have fought for, and continue to fight for, safe and inclusive dance spaces. DJ Alicia Michelle will spin the tango tunes, and we will be joined by tango music duo Arco & Aire, Heyni Solera on bandoneon and Max Wollam-Fisher on the cello.

Everything is free of charge and will take place at the beautiful Dance Studio (CU205) of the Montgomery College Takoma Park Campus, 7995 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland.

See you there!

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Event flyer. Heading says Be Here Queer! Tango milonga” with logos of the DC Queer Tango Collective and Montgomery College. Friday June 6, 2025, 8pm to 11:30pm, beginners class at 7pm. With live tango music by Arco & Aire and DJ Alicia. Photos of the collective are laid out in front of a swooshing rainbow pattern. The address is given as “Montgomery Collect Takoma Park Campus dance studio (room CU205), 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, Maryland” and there’s a sponsorship note “sponsored by the MC Cultural Arts Center and the Visual and Performing Arts Department.” At the bottom, between trans and progress Pride flags, it says “the DC Queer Tango Collective, organized by and for LGBTQ+ and allies”

The Filipeli twins were given a challenge by the organizers of Conexion Queer Tango Festival: dance with a third person in the mix, Leonardo Sardella.

For reference, at the World Tango Championships in 2019, the Filipeli twins took 3rd place in tango escenario, which is the highest any non-traditional couple has ever ranked in tango.

#queerTango #tangoQueer #queer #tango #tangoArgentino #ArgentineTango #queerDance #brothers #twins #dance #fun #MiamiBeach #silly #performance #dancePerformance

Liliana Chenlo and Martina Waldman dancing to "La milonga que faltaba" at Conexion Queer Tango Festival in Miami Beach

Note that the one in the dress is leading, and both are in high heels.

Video by Brandon Saraniti, posted with permission

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We gathered this past Saturday for our weekly free queer tango class and práctica. We'll be doing it again this Saturday, at Montgomery College's Silver Spring/Takoma Park campus's dance studio.

#queerTango #tangoQueer #tango #ArgentineTango #tangoArgentino #queer #queerDance #SilverSpringMD #WashingtonDC #DMV

Three couples practice dancing, holding each other by the arms, while the teacher looks on. The nearest couple have their legs extended to the right.

A short-haired person in a tank top raises their right arm in demonstration. Five students are visible in the mirror. A progress pride flag can also be seen hanging on the door, in the mirror.

Six people look on, reflected in the mirror, as a person in a black tank top with short hair gesticulates, explaining.

3 people watch as the teacher, dressed in a blank tank top and black pants, demonstrates a step with a student in a striped shirt.

The main purpose of our excursion while in Uruguay in 2016 was to visit the Juanicó winery and partake in a wine-tasting. We'd reached here by steam train (see last post) and had a walk around the vineyard and cellars first, then were treated to the wine-tasting itself with some lunch.

The wine-tasting was the booziest one we've ever had. Picture five glasses for five wines. A little in glass A from the people moving table-to-table, then a little in glass B, then being asked if we liked A and wanted more so getting glass A filled to the top, then a little in glass C, then B being filled up, then a little in D, then more A and filled-up C, and we sort of lost track after that. We *think* we drank two bottles per person.

After the wine-tasting we were treated to some Uruguayan Tango, and it was fabulous. After that, though, "volunteers" were requested from the visitors to dance with the pair pictured and that's how I then ended up dancing with the woman here. Well, "dancing" to be more accurate.

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We're in a large room with a high ceiling, well-lit by natural light. The floor is concrete inlaid with rows of bricks spaced out far apart and the far wall that we can see is red brick decorated with some large, dark, somewhat abstract paintings and wall decorations. and with a low wooden table and black leather armchairs set around it just in front. In the centre of the room, filling the view, there are two dancers performing an Argentine Tango (well, Uruguayan, really). The male is dark haired, powerfully-built, dressed all in black with loose-fitting trousers on his suit. The woman has long dark hair slicked back and pulled into a tight pony tail. She's wearing a burgundy velvet, figure-hugging dress with pink and white flowery frills. The man is thrusting forward on one bended knee, supporting the woman who is arched back over his thigh with her right leg planted and left leg raised.

On Saturday, the organizers of Conexión #QueerTango Festival said they wanted to give the Filipeli twins a challenge this year. They danced with a third man, Leonardo Sardella.

For context, the twins took third place in the 2019 Tango World Championship, the highest two men have ever placed; trying to give them a challenge is justified!

In the first song that had all three, they danced as though jealously fighting over each other.

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Twin brothers Nicolás & Germán Filipeli dance with Leonardo Sardella between them. Germán is leading. All three men have short dark hair and beards. The twins are wearing maroon blazers and black pants. Leonardo is wearing a black shirt, black and silver plaid waistcoat, and silver pants. Nicolás looks serious. Leonardo is grinning.

After hurriedly dancing to the far end of the dance floor, as though running from Leonardo, Nicolás puts out a hand, his expression pleading Leonardo not to steal Germán away from him.

Germán leads Leonardo to kick backwards between Nicolás’s open legs. Nicolás faces away from the camera, and Germán faces toward it. Leonardo is facing right, according to the camera. Nicolás is taking a step forward (away from the camera) with his right foot as Leonardo’s right foot passes between his legs.

Their backs to the camera, the twins each hold one of Leonardo’s hands. His weight is on his bent left leg, and his right leg is kicked out far behind him.

I stayed an extra day in Miami to go to Tan Lunes, which is a milonga run by Germán Filipeli & Rocio Leguizamon, after it was mentioned at Conexión. Some of the performers and others in town for the festival were planning to go and continue the party (including a performance).

I had lots of role-switching fun, and for the last tanda, I invited an older woman. She said I’m the first woman she’s ever danced with!

#tango #ArgentineTango #queerTango #dancing

More scenes from Conexión #QueerTango Festival in #MiamiBeach

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Two people dance with a glowing pride flag in the background. The back of a short-haired person in dark blue faces the camera. That person is following. Across their back, we see the leader’s arm, and over their shoulder, the curly-haired leader’s face.

A pair of wives embrace with huge smiles of absolute joy. One is dressed in dark dress shirt and pants with very short hair and small hoop earrings. The other is dressed in a white waistcoat and white pinstriped pants.

A scene of the dance floor. To the left, a man in purple leads a woman with short hair and a crop top. To the right, a shorter person in orange leads a taller woman in a silver dress. Behind, a pair of men dance.

Two women, wrapped in each other’s embrace, dance cheek to cheek. They look like peaceful.

More photos from Liliana Chenlo & Martina Waldman’s performance on Friday night at Conexión Queer Tango Festival in Miami Beach. These are from the last song they danced, when the crowd (after changing “otra! otra!”) requested they dance to a milonga song. The song selected was “La milonga que faltaba”.

#tango #queerTango #tangoQueer #tangoArgentino #ArgentineTango #queer #MiamiBeach #queerJoy #queerDance

Liliana, with blonde curly hair and a long open-backed gown kicks between the legs of Martina, who is in grey pants and a lacy strapless top, as she takes a forward step.

Liliana & Martina both rise onto one toe each as they bring their other knees up, dancing

Liliana, with blonde curly hair and a long open-backed gown leads Martina, who is in grey pants and a lacy strapless top. They’re in Americano position, Liliana standing on her right leg and Martina on her left leg, torsos toward each other, with the other (outside) legs extended behind them.

Liliana, with blonde curly hair and a long open-backed gown leads Martina, who is in grey pants and a lacy strapless top. They are taking tiny steps with their knees bent as they dance to fast music, and Martina is rotated, moving around Liliana counter clockwise.

Karen is lifting up the mentions of food/baking, community organizing and adding that in a bunch of queer tango local WhatsApp groups there’s birthday wishes, food talk, and “the protest is at 1 o clock.”

She also highlighted the queer tango Discord server.

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Ray, about the word queer: “I love that that sour milk has become the most beautiful embrace in our beautiful dance.”

He says, “you don’t need queer tango” is the same as “why don’t we have straight pride?”

“Name 68 countries where it’s illegal to be straight.”

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Astrid wants to bring back the online round tables that happened during lockdown.

Mikael says Valencia’s queer tango community is still doing them.

(We are a half hour past the end time.)

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Mikael expresses the same feeling I have about dancing in a queer space: embracing someone of the same gender when you’re both queer…that’s its own feeling. It’s not the same feeling same-gender dancing with a bunch of straight people.

Emily says she asks straight people to pay more. Karen called it the Straight Tax.

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Karen once heard someone answer “if we’re all equal, why do you need straight tango? Why aren’t you all coming to our events?”

Karen sums it up as “if you try hard enough to assimilate and are capable of passing, you can come to our event.” But in our events we have our own culture.

#tango #tangoArgentino #ArgentineTango #tangoQueer #queerTango #queerHistory #queerDance #queer

Ray asks how exactly she responds.

She says: I see it a different way. We have our own particular needs. It’s not just the women’s tango classes. And it’s about owning our own events, owning our own community, not about having us dissolve into the rest of the tango community.

She uses the term “queer washing”.

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Astrid notes the economic incentive for straight organizers to welcome and allow same gender dancing (higher attendance), but in her experience they never actually hire teachers or performers who are queer, and they have no awareness.

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