forbidden. Only male-female couples were allowed to dance in public milongas. The queer tango movement which revives the origins of tango as a same-sex couple dance is relatively recent. It was founded in Hamburg, Germany where in 2001 the first gay-lesbian milonga was organized. In the same year the First International Queer Tango Argentina Festival was brought to life. Since 2001 it takes place every year in order to bring together same sex couples in tango from all over the world. Born in Germany, the Queer Tango movement inspired other countries to create local queer tango scenes. Meanwhile, Queer Tango festivals are celebrated for example in Argentina, Montevideo, in Denmark, Sweden, Paris, and in the United States. In the bastion of traditional heteronormative tango, Augusto Balizano opened the first queer milonga, La Marshall, in Buenos Aires in 2002. A few years later, in 2005 Mariana Docampo started a weekly milonga in San Telmo called Tango Queer. Queer Tango in Buenos Aires While queer tango is more and more common in the milongas in Buenos Aires, discrimination persists against same-sex couples or couples who reverse the traditional sex-assigned roles. In late March 2022, a new milonga housed in a famous tango institution posted a list of rules at its entrance. Among those rules was a strict prohibition on same-sex couples dancing together. Members of the queer tango community continue to combat this type of discrimination. The Feminist Movement of Tango (Movimiento Feminista de Tango) maintains a social media presence to disseminate information, raise consciousness, and engage in activism. Founded by Anahí Carballo in 2015, Tango Entre Mujeres (TEM) is the first Argentine-based all-women tango dance company. The first scene of its 2019 work Vinculadas includes reenacted quotes of the insults that the company has received for its groundbreaking work. Some of these include, "you [meaning women dancing with each other] are the death of tango!" and "pan con pan es comida de tontos." See also Gender studies References Further reading Wartluft, Elizabeth: Who’s Leading? Gender Role Transformation in the Buenos Aires Community. M.A. thesis at the University of Oregon, 2002. excerpt on: dancingsoul.typepad.com Guillen, Marissa E.: The Performance of Tango: Gender, Power and Role Playing. Master of Arts thesis, Ohio 2008. plain text on: etd.ohiolink.edu. Lugones, Maria: Milongueando Macha Homoerotics: Dancing the Tango, Torta Style (a Performative Testimonio) in US Latina and Latino Borderlands (ed. Arturo J. Aldama, et al. 2012).