New Doc, “Hot To Trot” Examines Same Gender Ball Room Dancing

January 22, 2019• byMichael Strangeways

Here’s a film coming out soon for home viewing that is of great LGBTQ interest…it’s the LGBTQ documentary HOT TO TROT, focusing on same gendered couple performing in competitive ball room dancing competitions.

For everyone who’s yearned for Derek Hough to do the tango with Adam Rippon on “Dancing With The Stars”, here’s your chance to see men dancing with men/women with women in the zexy world of the ballroom.

The movie, which screened at festivals in 2018, comes to home video in the next few weeks…check it out.

Hot to Trot

A film by Gail Freedman

Mad Hot Ballroom meets Paris is Burning … or is it RuPaul’s Drag Race meets Dancing with the Stars? Whatever your reference, the award-winning and crowd-pleasing documentary Hot to Trot offers a deep-dive look inside the fascinating but little-known world of same-sex competitive ballroom dance.

This lively, poignant film follows an international cast of four magnetic men and women over several years, on and off the dance floor, as they journey to the quadrennial Gay Games. Along the way, dancing is revealed to be both a means of overcoming personal hardships – from drug addiction to familial rifts – and a joyous opportunity to merge passionate artistic expression with proud sexual identity.

2018 Theatrical Release!

On iTunes & Amazon VOD January 29 | On DVD February 5

“A warm and involving documentary…the dancing is stirring
and impressive…unique heft and vitality!”
-Los Angeles Times“Sizzles with artistic and political passions…a lovely, graceful documentary.”
-San Francisco Bay Times

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.