“Dancing is going to be one of the last bastions of homophobia to fall because it is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire,” says Barbara Zoloth, founding member and President of the North American Same-Sex Partner Dance Association, in the documentary Hot to Trot, which comes out tomorrow in New York and September 14th in Los Angeles.
In mainstream competitive ballroom dance, same-sex partnerships are not allowed. Director Gail Freedman’s film follows the lives of dancers in a community that sought an alternative. Over a four-year period, the film goes from the April Follies, North America’s largest same-sex ballroom dance competition, to the Gay Games, where it’s a featured sport, and beyond.