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San Telmo, en Buenos Aires, es una fiesta. Casi toda la capital argentina es vibrante, charlatana y colorida pero en San Telmo uno encuentra la felicidad de las pequeñas cosas. Por ejemplo, al tomarse un café, un auténtico ritual para los porteños, que se tragan la bebida sorbo a sorbito a medida que van escupiendo sus temores, dudas y alegrías como en una sesión de psicoanálisis gratuita. La afirmación es más verdadera en lugares de este distrito como el Café del Árbol (frente a la Plaza Dorreg

by David Paul Appell

The renaissance of BA’s most iconic world export is still in full swing, and throughout Argentina‘s elegant capital you can experience tango in infinite ways: from milongas (dance halls) and dance academies to museums and tours, from traditional to jazz-and-electronica-infused and same-sex gay (in a sense bringing tango back to its roots, when it was common for dudes to dance together). Whether you’re fascinated with the form or are simply in the market for elegant yet moder

By Roy Heale

While Argentina's LGBT community is basking in the glow of the recent victory for same-sex marriage and adoption legislation there is a bustle of new activity in the gay tourism industry. International tourism to Argentina rose thirty percent in the month of June 2010 and it is probably safe to assume that many of these tourists were LGBT travelers. In anticipation of increased gay vacationers the local LGBT travel agency---and fellow IGLTA member---tour operator Duques del Plata hav

by Asli Pelit

The oldest neighborhood in Argentina‘s capital, San Telmo is a barrio founded in the 16th century, where history – romantic cobblestone streets, colonial buildings, cafés, churches, and its tango culture — happily coexists with today’s fashionista edge and Montmartre-like buzz. It became a bastion of the upper class in the 1800s, declined after the cholera epidemic of 1871, and has been reviving since the country’s economic crisis in 2002, luring (mostly European) investors and b