Ray Batchelor writes: “Caption to the original at source: Lesbian Novel, The Clever Young Women, 1927 – BUT According to Julie Nero in her PhD “Hannah Höch, Til Brugman, Lesbianism, and Weimar Culture”…
Ray Batchelor writes: “At the source of this image it says: “Women in various Tango postures. A postcard set by Suzanne Meunier, around 1930.” I am going to guess at some date between 1915-1919. I can only find an image like this of the whole set online, not the individual
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: “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
Ray Batchelor writes: My colleague, Gonzalo Collazo knew nothing about this image when we added it to the Queer Tango Archive in 2016. We have found out nothing since [27 March 2020], but it is worth examining very carefully. It is photograph and has the look and dimensions of a
![1920s/1930s Italian[?] Nearly Nude Tango [?] Dancers](https://image.queertangobook.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1920s-Italian-Nude-Dancers-1.jpg)
Ray Batchelor adds, 16th March 2017: According to the original source [link below], a website selling old things or things which look old, “This appears to be a re-issue of a 1920’s-30’s postcard…. or perhaps made to appear so. Clearly marked on the back as of 1982 vintage. Interesting postcard
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