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New space! And we’re an official #WorldPrideDC partner event!

Join us the evening of Friday, June 6th, to celebrate Queer Pride and deepen our connection with one another! Be Here Queer! Tango Milonga is a Partner Event of World Pride 2025, which brings queer people from around the globe to Washington, DC. Now more than ever, queer people and their allies must stand proud and loud, reaffirming the fundamental rights of queer communities in the U.S. and worldwide.

World Pride runs from May 17 to June 8—be part of it and join us Friday, June 6th. Details below.

#CapitalPrideDC #pride #WorldPride #CapitalPride #pride2025 #tango #queerTango #tangoQueer

And for a contrast to what I said about Monday’s milonga: my favorite milonga is the Thursday night one, #Chacho.

I always say “the floor’s not great, but the people are!”

A friend once said “oh, I don’t count Chacho as straight #tango. Nobody stares when I dance with another guy.”

Yes. Going to Chacho is as close to a #queerTango experience as you will get without putting the “queer tango” label on it.

I danced 12 tandas tonight with 11 people: 5 women & 6 men.
#tangoDobleRol

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!

#WorldPride #pride #DC #WashingtonDC #tango #milonga #queerTango #tangoQueer #queerDance #lgbtq #lgbt #queer #SilverSpringMD #queerJoy #queerDC #WorldPride2025 #eventsDC #events #free #liveMusic #bandoneon #cello #TakomaPark #tangoArgentino #ArgentineTango #DMV #dance #party
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
Pics from today’s queer tango class. Georgia was out today, so instead of 1hr each of beginner/practica/technique, we did 1.5hr of beginner class followed by 1.5hr of practica.

As a reminder, these are free, community-run classes at Montgomery College in Silver Spring every Saturday 1:30-4:30.

#QueerTango #TangoQueer #tango #queer #queerDance #queerJoy #queerDC #WashingtonDC #DMV #eventsDC #SilverSpringMD
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.

#TangoQueer #tango #queer #tangoArgentino #ArgentineTango #queerDance #queerJoy #MiamiBeach

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!

I got so many compliments today on my dancing from people I met here a year ago 🫶🏻

A year ago, I took a private lesson with one of the professionals who performed here because my leading was super unclear. We danced tonight. I started out following but stole the lead from him. We swapped 2–3 times per song. It was so fun! He’s super playful. And the look of shock on his face when I led him for a calesita, and the compliments from him after, made me SO proud!

Two years ago, a TikTok buddy mentioned the existence of queer tango. I didn’t realize I could explore partner dancing—especially such an intimate partner dance—in a safe space. He is the reason I dance tango now.

We finally met in person for the first time this weekend! We’re even sharing a hotel room, and we’ve danced together a few times now. So cool! We went to drag brunch at The Palace today too.

#friends #internetFriends #offline #dance #tango #queerTango #drag #MiamiBeach #queerJoy
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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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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.

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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”.