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Whereas it felt that the majority of NYC was rioting over PS5’s, a much more important uproar was going down simply over the bridge in Brooklyn. Solely six days in the past at a fuel station in Brooklyn, O’Shae Sibley and a gaggle of associates vogueing to Beyonce’s Renaissance have been approached and advised to cease dancing. The confrontation result in the homicide of O’Shae Sibley, a 28-year-old black queer completed dancer, choreographer, activist and well-known member of the ballroom scene. Buddies, household and supporters together with Rev. Yunus Coldman, Keven Aviance, Ceyenne Doroshow, Qween Jean and queer activist Yves have been amongst lots of gathered for a memorial BALL on the identical road nook of the scene of the crime. “You may’t assist however really feel that when one thing like this occurs to somebody out of your neighborhood that it might have been you, your life might be taken away from you just by expressing your self whether or not by one thing you might be sporting and even dancing in public.” Says Alexey Kim who was the photographer on the scene. “One of the crucial highly effective photographs I believe I used to be capable of seize and the one which was reposted extensively is a photograph of “we gained’t cease dancing” that was written on the street in blue chalk”. Demonstrating that expressing BPOC queer pleasure won’t ever be silenced, we danced for justice, ache and O’SHAE SIBLEY.
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