SF LGBT Issues/Examiner
Eric Ross
Do you like Dancing With the Stars? How about So You Think You Can Dance? If so, you'll love California Dreaming, the largest Same-Sex Dancesport Event in the country, featuring some of the nation's most accomplished same-sex dancers. The 3rd annual competition and show will be in San Francisco on November 7th.
While featured in the Gay Games since 1994 and attracting over 400 competitors from around the world at this year’s 2010 World Outgames in Copenhagen, Same-sex couples are notably absent from the established USA Ballroom Dancing Circuit, the governing body of which being coincidentally (or not) located in Utah. “Ballroom dancing is, and has been historically, thought of as a man and a woman dancing together...much like the mainstream views marriage," said Jeff Chandler, ballroom dancing ‘legend’ and one of the organizers of this star-studded event. "Ballroom has always been one of the most conservative of all the dance styles. We see California Dreaming as an opportunity not only to shatter those social morays but change the art of ballroom dancing itself."
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