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Article: Tango down to Buenos Aires
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 11, 2004
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APIF YOU GO
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A pair of tango dancers moves awkwardly
across the floor, laughing as they try to avoid stepping on one
another's toes. As tango classics waft out of the sound system and a
disco ball casts its refracted light, the pair is like any other
learning a new dance -- except they're both men.
It's Wednesday night in Buenos Aires, and the country's only gay
milonga is in full swing.
Goddess, a local gay club, began offering the milonga -- a tango
dance party -- five months ago, around the time that organizers
Roxana Gargano and Augusto Balizano began to notice an influx of gay