Queer Tango

Queer Tango was not approved at first, due to the blurred lines of gender roles and social class rankings being affected.

A queer tango dancer shifts the focus from sexuality to gender which allows to enhance his expressiveness by way of role exchange.

[4] "Bodies without organs" is a concept explored through same-sex tangoing, which allows people to experiment the dynamic presented in the technique.

Living outside of the body and its organs can be a way for people to work more creatively and release ongoing stresses:We suggest that redrawing, blurring and/or smudging the boundaries of the essential(ized) body, poking holes and coming to terms with the porosity of our skin, might help us to grapple with the partial and processual becoming of our bodies-in-relation.This detaches form from function, challenges prefigured/ predetermined conceptions and understandings of body parts (including sexual elements, organs, and limbs), and opens up possibilities for thinking otherwise (and perversely) about the roles and functional boundaries being created and policed.

[…]On one hand, Saphic flirtation or outright lesbianism was exercised by valid individuals belonging to circles of artistic luster wherein this was entirely admissible.

Meanwhile, Queer Tango festivals are celebrated for example in Argentina,[10] Montevideo, in Denmark,[11] Sweden,[12] Paris, and in the United States.

[13] In the bastion of traditional heteronormative tango, Augusto Balizano opened the first queer milonga, La Marshall, in Buenos Aires in 2002.

[14] A few years later, in 2005 Mariana Docampo started a weekly milonga in San Telmo called Tango Queer.

In late March 2022, a new milonga housed in a famous tango institution posted a list of rules at its entrance.