A gay professional dancer was stabbed to death after vogueing with friends at a gas station in Brooklyn, New York, elevating concerns about a rise in violence against LGBTQ+ Americans.
O’Shae Sibley, a professional dancer and choreographer, was heading home with friends after a trip to the New Jersey Shore on Saturday night. The group stopped at the gas station around 11 p.m. and were vogueing to Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” album before a separate group of men approached them.
“These people were like ‘We’re Muslim, I don’t want you dancing,’” an employee of the gas station recalled to Gothamist, adding: “The gay people, they were not trying to fight.”
The group began to call Sibley and his friends — who were shirtless and in bathing suits — names and gay slurs, telling them to stop dancing, according to The New York Times. Sibley began to argue with the men and was stabbed.
Otis Pena, one of his friends, tried to stop the bleeding before Sibley was taken to an area medical center, where he was pronounced dead.
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