[Tango-L] same sex couple dancing in a milonga

[Igor Polk]

Nik,

Tell those organizers that dancing man-man and woman-woman is a part of
tango dancing tradition. In the past it was often that they danced together.
It was widely practiced. It is part of any dancing tradition not just tango.
Only mostly they did it if there was luck of partners for them.
Why otherwise, indeed?

Literature ( of old times ) is full with descriptions when men danced
together in army, in gold mining camps, even in jails ! Women danced where
there was no or few men around, or nobody invited them. It was absolutely
normal.

Questions were raised only if they danced consistently with each other. But
that was very very rare.

Besides, any advanced dancers should know both parts, so they should
practiced it somewhere, shouldn't they?

Igor.