BUENOS AIRES: Gay tourism growing in tolerant, cosmopolitan city

AP Worldstream | April 1, 2004| | Copyright

ALEXA STANARD, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-01-2004
Dateline: 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 ...

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