Augusto Balizano is telling us that in Buenos Aires in the 90s, they didn’t talk about leader and follower yet. You did the man, or you did the woman, and occasionally a school was willing to teach a man to dance as a woman, but you couldn’t do it in a milonga.

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“…we have also discussed how cis-gendered gay people can still access such straight spaces somewhat comfortably, as opposed to trans or non-binary or gender non-conforming or disabled bodies. These considerations of sensitive inclusion are strangely assumed to be on the shoulders of the queer community and not with straight spaces. I find this division of labour quite perplexing.”

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