Same-sex dancers compete in the 2nd annual World Championship Same-Sex Dancing competition in Budapest, Hungary A documentary project about the same-sex ballroom dancing, or Dancesport, culture of competitions held throughout the United States and Europe.

Defending World Champion same-sex ballroom dancer Gergely Darabos, right, lies on the ground after being overcome with a leg cramp trying to defend his title in the men's Latin division at the 2nd annual World Championship Same-Sex Ballroom Dancing competition at the Korcsarnok arena in Budapest, Hungary, on October 21, 2006. ..Helping him, from left, are his dancing partner's mother, event sponsor Desire (accent on the "e") Dubounet and Darbos' mother and father. ..Darabos and his dancing partner, Robert Tristan Szelei, won the men?s Standard division and went on to finish fourth in the Latin division, after Darabos recovered from the cramp. ..The dance couple, known as the "Black Swans," 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. This is the pinnacle event of the blossoming same-sex ballroom scene...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 Dubounet, owner of the local Club Bohemian Alibi. ..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 Wor

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Defending World Champion same-sex ballroom dancer Gergely Darabos, right, lies on the ground after being overcome with a leg cramp trying to defend his title in the men's Latin division at the 2nd annual World Championship Same-Sex Ballroom Dancing competition at the Korcsarnok arena in Budapest, Hungary, on October 21, 2006. ..Helping him, from left, are his dancing partner's mother, event sponsor Desire (accent on the "e") Dubounet and Darbos' mother and father. ..Darabos and his dancing partner, Robert Tristan Szelei, won the men?s Standard division and went on to finish fourth in the Latin division, after Darabos recovered from the cramp. ..The dance couple, known as the "Black Swans," 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. This is the pinnacle event of the blossoming same-sex ballroom scene...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 Dubounet, owner of the local Club Bohemian Alibi. ..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 Wor