The Queer Tango Image Archive

Film clip: [Intercambio] Apache Dance in Popeye the Sailor Morning, Noon and Night Club 1937

Film: Lesbians at a Paris Tango Tea, c1913, as shown in “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” 1921

Film clip: Men Dancing Tango Together, Uruguay, 1928

Popeye (almost) Tangos with Bluto, 1934 [still taken from cartoon]

Men, some in tango poses, Serres, Macedonia, 1918; or after 1923…

Film clip, “Indochine” 1992, Catherine Deneuve and Linh Dan Pham

Laurel & Hardy Dance Tango in a Movie, 1937

The Addams Family’s Gomez and Lurch Tango Lesson, US TV, c1965

Another photo of Viola Dana and Shirley Mason as Mr and Mrs Rudolph Valentino 1924

Sem Caricature 1913: Madame d’Artex dancing with Lise Radoline

Sem Caricature 1913: Felix Mayol dancing with Dramen

Sem Cartoon 1913: Nijinsky and impresario Gabriel Astruc

Woman teaching tango to women, Paris, 1911

Éve Lavalliére (as a man) and Andrée Spinelly in the play “Tango” 1913-14

German book cover, 1924 – women dancing tango..?

Women Tango Couple Postcards by Suzanne Meunier, c1917

Silent Film of Sailors Dancing with each Other, Rio de Janiero,1922

Shanghai Calendar girls 1930s

Shanghai Calendar Girls, late 1920s?

A woman teaching women, 1912: En Paris, gente de rang ova a la “academia de tango”