Ray Batchelor writes: “Taken from an article by Walter Nelson and used by him as evidence of historical same sex dancing. http://www.walternelson.com/dr/same-sex-dance No source is given by Nelson for the image so it is impossible to say which dance they are dancing. It could be tango. Andrew David Field writing
Ray Batchelor writes: “I KNOW nothing, but the information surrounding it suggests Paris, 1912. I find this interesting because it shows women supporting each other and acquiring tango skills – albeit that in this image, one of the women may have been being paid. http://www.todotango.com/english/history/chronicle/76/Tango-success/” What do you believe the
Ray Batchelor writes: “This is an illustration by A. Morel at the centre of some sheet music for the Villoldo tango ‘Elegancias’ reproduced in the book, ‘Paris Buenos Aires’ by Nardo Zalko and dated there as 1914. A full version of the same cover, dated 1913 and said to be
Ray Batchelor writes, “From US Library of Congress: Tango, Long Beach (LOC), [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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: “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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