Ray Batchelor writes: “From the website of Marseillestango.fr a page devoted to “Le Tango, à l’origine, se dansait-il entre hommes ?” Des danseurs de Tango au son d’un Bandonéon, quelque part en Argentine ? Non : des danseurs probablement de Valse et de Polka, à Bordeaux, au son d’un accordéon,
Ray Batchelor writes: “From the website of Marseillestango.fr a page devoted to “Le Tango, à l’origine, se dansait-il entre hommes ?” A link to the tango itself: https://youtu.be/iInpgnzUZws This account of the plot from Wikipedia does not even mention a tango. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Orange” What do you belive the copyright status of
Irmantas Bacelis writes: ” ” What do you belive the copyright status of this image to be? Irmantas Bacelis believes: “I don’t know the copyright status of the image.” The image url: https://www.google.de/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZisHgKkjGKQzOFH9bTleKd6bruLc7OvEd2sJ2yw2jCEeWytMqUsNdAjuNxA8nwQ77VyOYyinr-jbY57mNJ8kz9SLWAEH7AxfvaYghOTjNU54TklCo2-byGkIj9ZuC-vF8Vuu5LFQfQg4ARLhViFxPzXXWXONA7fmqG7yXlZftYi50o37cxctZ-5xZc6xHCYeeeNZd53qIhl8l9eogWThnYc4o1ryYvSfsnGLFfNOkBnEqipwdf_1vR1uAm9ECk7gHR4OkhbAhsN02T-790XffNSVDOnJaC8hADT69dhk0THLJZ1uSBWWGZkARFekXDgfIEtP3A7KSBkoOsvPBvouJUPUwBb4wOAy5iRi_1zRReh_1h-XoDUv6MgOsSyeHkUQncoTCi3AbpSd4yhtQ6Fe137mxDpKALhaUALSKVZftbyaW7HBXJd2ptaTS8C_1mjFYg1Qlh63KE2Lbv5eY2cBNCX7rjq_1XK0M6p1_1xwgVgLbAt0ooAaIZbAJTLDxsaX1X5_1TdK8rmUm6Q9SOXzJnq1PyRYMyICpMsexmbmugpVxrKpESZiMvtN3O7j-rsoSo5xVCADfwEUA7Hy-Szt2ey5GRtasEtla0N23PFMhb0CjxCEYJ9kIpxTvkv6kk6n38pmvWMu0CCSDoN5jpCdgwD10KoDPWY4ZUwrcNOWZ1CqQiAjcqbP54WDlGoZbILD_1Ez8Uz0CD6r63Y2jOl4nTqo8HkYrmke96HLGsqkRSAbuqZe–CVzd4Wsb_1vkpvJYC6fo1i8xUvKYF9Kzbmjbz9RkNCa_1a4cwC9K5q4j-QetpdEFX3gJ7gkSqzhGR5Gulo4pEvuJzzA4CKX6Lm6bWvqVzceeIQJHi1zeBCoMAl5xPRJpJXbVvVQXZdMAgOCyZdvZy7-rktk6hhiZKMDE_1WtDJKopyYNajT63-I2oWsKHXv5MantIIX5u7oNcpNbnjSc65Ah5BSSH1TOP_1IrA7z-bJEhQrHVxEAb7IgxJjHDU3gMuer4pF1H0wloy1xtvgRAeIPN-pDK8DFe8P9r3CCJS-hEMUYaHunAFVd2TBJsrte9NLuD-ESyUMdtaNC0lxvquFW7huZVIpjGhJ1SR0h8BFB5Ob4OC2BYJB8kQCk0w_1t7zcFJ8sBGMdYrAO8RaDwQRYSf6fsuC-sK8Or0NwtIpqT9Io4ulYWPC-3dcyunLdvV0phSEQ4lp4S_1lvHszciMeKfBX7Inud8szmtTeaCKXEeSmFcDpMp6ITsJ7X9wth4KX8KQPIpYqHk5p2yTQNuVZtqQMOXWIc11d0DY2fl2yp7OEFdhVb6h1TJsDC3lYXq6tKZ-EQ1k6zpc23qHFWxtOThGxeYhv6Tszv6DXdHo0hfHwqDDvNx8Wz9VyQfSa4G9h64CCJsZvlFre_1mdWcjOmR65VbMptzLCzF9jIxBL3h1XR1cYn2oYiAS9h51IJmLDIBB3HUsKl0DxZECwqdvWUnfheziShZxCydUxBnrOnyqglwtugT2wkC6tOou5onCS7TCbWuplpYq4ow5yWFu9jpCZ0Twnw4H2Xab_1dWt2LxxNd1bzVGk8vFtPMQJrKDKXoUNOYHfjbosyX9T1BjX9HrVUpFgpFByY4&hl=lt-DE
Ray Batchelor writes: What should we make of this 1929 queer tango from Weimar Germany? https://youtu.be/ecd0OV4E1YA The clip shows Lulu dancing with Countess Augusta Geschwitz (Louise Brooks and Alice Roberts) and is probably the earliest film showing a lesbian dancing tango with another woman. Was it a tango they danced?
Ray Batchelor writes: Cover of sheet music, The Penultimate Tango or The Dingo Tango L’avant dernier tango – The Penultimate Tango A young (25?) Maurice Chevalier towers over and leads music hall and film star, Félicien Tramel, while Rollin – should that be Polin? Certainly the stage persona of Pierre-Paul
Ray Batchelor writes: “From Spanish website http://www.esto.es/tango/espanol/Ellas.htm text by J. Alberto Mariñas. This, with other images from J. Alberto Marinas’ website is a further example of women shown dancing together – and perhaps the ‘lesbian erotica for the male-gaze’ dimension is less to the fore? Without a proper context, is
Ray Batchelor writes: “From Spanish website http://www.esto.es/tango/espanol/Ellas.htm text by J. Alberto Mariñas. This, with other images from J. Alberto Marinas’ website is a further example of women shown dancing together – and perhaps the ‘lesbian erotica for the male-gaze’ dimension is less to the fore? Without a proper context, is
Ray Batchelor writes: “From Spanish website http://www.esto.es/tango/espanol/Ellas.htm text by J. Alberto Mariñas. The artist Fabius Lorenzi (1880-1969) specialised in fashionable illustrations of a sexually adventurous, Parisian demi-monde, including – depending on how you look at them – representations of women enjoying autonomous sexual relations with men, to which this image
Ray Batchelor writes: “The artwork for this postcard is signed by Luiz Usabal Y Hernandez. It is taken from the Wikipedia entry for “Queer Tango” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Tango (accessed 29 March 2016) which includes this quotation from J. Alberto Mariñas: "The origin of those images, like the origin of the enthronement of
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