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jbjb If I had a relationship, em you know, I I could, I might I might say it s not impossible
to have another homosexual relationship, perfectly possible, but it s em usually I basically,
em, if one if one has to make a choice, I would probably choose to have a heterosexual,
a, a, a relationship, a *** relationship with a woman, em, but, you know, it s, it
s er Some people in London seem to sort of say you are either gay or you re straight
and quite frankly, I don t believe that, er, I don t actually subscribe to that view. I
don t think it s either, it s like a switch, one way or the other. I think that everybody
has various capabilities and it s er, it s their own, em, em I mean, some people do have,
er, propensities which would guide them in a certain direction. But, eh, eh, there s
also a high degree of element of, of, er choice and culture and opportunity, and where you
happen to be at a particular point in time. Em, so it s, er I mean, just in practical
terms if you are doing a farm labouring, you didn t have long wet hair, you certainly wouldn
t put on a wig to go and do farm work, and, you know, you re, if you re doing work with
your hands that are going to get dirty, your nails are going to get chipped or your clothes
are going to get spoilt, you re just going to do, em, wear, dress appropriately for that
work. Em, and, a, again, on the other hand in, in business, unfortunately, em, in business,
er, first impressions make a difference in how people react to you in a transaction so
it s quite difficult for a, a, transvestite or a *** to, em, operate easily in
the business world because people, the first thing they see are prejudices, what they then
think and what then happens after that. Em, so, I m, I m fortunate in that I can sort
of er, choose where I go and how I wish to present myself at different times. Em, you
know, if I, I m in a, a more formal situation I would wear a suit as a man. I guess in the
the world that you move in, in the dance, social dance world, there isn t these problems
either, are there. Well, yes, there is. I mean in, in tango, it s the man, principally,
most of the tango scene is principally quite determinedly heterosexual, even though, it
s interesting, em going back, about ninety years, eighty years, em, when men learned
to dance tango they would er, dance together. Men would learn to dance, dancing together.
And when, after a couple of years, at least, when they knew how to dance, they could then
go and ask a lady, and then they would then be er, in er, allowed, er, to ask a lady to
dance. So the ladies would then, the man then basically knew how to lead and how to follow,
so he, he was, a reasonably competent dancer, and then knowing what he is expecting the
lady to do, em, he can lead it much more proficiently. So, em, men dancing together was, definitely
part of the early culture of tango. But when I started learning tango about fifteen years
ago, em, er, on a couple of occasions, I er, went to some dances in my female role, em,
I was basically told not to. Em why is that? So Jacky was saying the same thing. She was
saying that in the conservative ballroom, latin, American kind of environment, em, same
sex couples can t dance together, em, and certainly frowned upon if they did, and, in
a sense, her Pink Jukebox is an antithesis of that and it encourages same sex. And she
says you don t have to be LGBT to come to her Pink Jukebox. No, no, no, no. I mean it
s, it s a nice evening and er, it s you know, a mixture of lesbian, gay men, a few transvestites
and probably er, at least twenty-five to forty percent, er, just straight dancers that just
come to dance. Em, so, it s a, it s a, it s quite a mixture of people. Em, one of the
things she does do though, because, in a, sort of, it s a practical thing. Em, if, with,
with some of, some popular dances that everybody can do like a waltz or a quick-step, she ll
say, right we ll do, we ll have three lots. We ll have the first one for men only, we
have the second one for ladies only and the third one for mixed couples. So em, er, that
s, er, and it s, it s, it s a, it s a practical necessity because there s a lot of people
there and actually it s a good way of setting it down, em, em, but it is a, it is a sort
of a, a segregation that she imposes which sort of, em, er, so I dance as a woman, so
I go in the ladies section, but, em, er, that s hehehehe So for, oh I know what I was going
to, yes, talking about sort of gay dance competitions, gay ballroom competitions, they, er, they,
they only like to have same sex people dressed the same. They don t want to have a man and
a man dressed as a woman. They don t want that. So, for that kind of thing I m a little
discriminated against. But, I m not into competitions anyway, er, I the, I like to me the Argentinian
tango makes sense. Your, it s a lot slower process to actually realise the breakthroughs
of learning about your body and about your partner s body and how the balance and everything
works. Em, whereas with ballroom dancing, people learn choreographed steps and they
will often say, right, the men s steps are these, the ladies steps are those, you learn
them, you come together and you do them together. That s not leading and following. That s not
real partner dancing in my view. It is partner dancing but it s er, it s artificial. It s
choreographed. You might as well, in my view be reciting, you could learn a poetr, a poem
in Polish and you could recite it and you could, somebody could tell you how to pronounce
it but if it didn t mean anything to you, it s it s, it s meaningless. Do you still
have your tea dances. m going to have one of my dances on Saturday, the 9th of October.
I will be also teaching tango again from Saturday the 25th of, if you ve got, er, you haven
t got, em, nail varnish on your nails, so if you dive into my bag, in, in here, you
ll find some flyers in there. So there s two lots. There s there s the tango, so take one
of those. That s Saturday afternoon and that starts again on the Satur, the last Saturday
in September, and that s my Global Village Dance and that s Saturday the 9th of October
in Mudchute. And the theme for that one is Imagine. Now, 9th of October is John Lennon
s birthday and it s also em, his son Sean Lennon s birthday. Em come along, hehehe,
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