The Black Swans

World Champion same-sex ballroom dancers Robert Tristan Szelei, front left, and Gergely Darabos, front right, facing camera, hug as they listen to the announcement that they have won the standard division at the 2nd annual World Championship Same-Sex Ballroom Dancing competition, which was held their hometown, Budapest, Hungary, on October 21, 2006. ..Szelei and Darabos, who are known as the "Black Swans," were the reigning world champions in men?s Latin same-sex ballroom dancing. They have been training and preparing to host the 2nd annual World Championship and the Csardas Cup, the first-ever Eastern European same-sex ballroom competition, both held at the Korcsarnok arena. This is the pinnacle event of the blossoming same-sex ballroom scene...Szelei and Darabos were relieved to win the men?s Standard division after finishing a disappointing fourth in the Latin division. ..The event was organized by the US-based World Federation of Same-Sex Dancing, which hosted the first World Championship Same-Sex championships in 2005 in Sacramento, California. The Black Swans did a large amount of the coordination and planning in Budapest, a city that had never seen an event of this kind. When government funding fell through, they secured funding from patron Desire (accent on the ?e?) Dubounet, owner of the local Club Bohemian Alibi drag club. ..The World Championship events are newly recognized, but same-sex dancers have been competing on a national and international circuit for a number of years, especially in Europe, including at the Eurogames, the Gay Games, the London Pink Jukebox Trophy and the Berlin Open, among others. Countries including the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and, now, Hungary, hold their own national same-sex championships. Hungary held its first national championships in April 2006...Szelei and Darabos spent three months at the Sacramento Dancesport same-sex dance school in California this summer, on the first scholarship offered by the World

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Contained in galleries: 2006-2007 Same-Sex Ballroom

World Champion same-sex ballroom dancers Robert Tristan Szelei, front left, and Gergely Darabos, front right, facing camera, hug as they listen to the announcement that they have won the standard division at the 2nd annual World Championship Same-Sex Ballroom Dancing competition, which was held their hometown, Budapest, Hungary, on October 21, 2006. ..Szelei and Darabos, who are known as the "Black Swans," were the reigning world champions in men?s Latin same-sex ballroom dancing. They have been training and preparing to host the 2nd annual World Championship and the Csardas Cup, the first-ever Eastern European same-sex ballroom competition, both held at the Korcsarnok arena. This is the pinnacle event of the blossoming same-sex ballroom scene...Szelei and Darabos were relieved to win the men?s Standard division after finishing a disappointing fourth in the Latin division. ..The event was organized by the US-based World Federation of Same-Sex Dancing, which hosted the first World Championship Same-Sex championships in 2005 in Sacramento, California. The Black Swans did a large amount of the coordination and planning in Budapest, a city that had never seen an event of this kind. When government funding fell through, they secured funding from patron Desire (accent on the ?e?) Dubounet, owner of the local Club Bohemian Alibi drag club. ..The World Championship events are newly recognized, but same-sex dancers have been competing on a national and international circuit for a number of years, especially in Europe, including at the Eurogames, the Gay Games, the London Pink Jukebox Trophy and the Berlin Open, among others. Countries including the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and, now, Hungary, hold their own national same-sex championships. Hungary held its first national championships in April 2006...Szelei and Darabos spent three months at the Sacramento Dancesport same-sex dance school in California this summer, on the first scholarship offered by the World