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Teenager Is Charged in Killing of Dancer O’Shae Sibley at Brooklyn Gas Station

Faces a charge of 2nd-degree murder, which has been charged as a hate crime, in the fatal stabbing of Mr. Sibley, a gay man, last week

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/nyregion/oshae-sibley-stabbing-charges.html

#OShaeSibley #lgbt #HateCrime #NYC

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

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Dancer's killing over voguing highlights dangers Black LGBTQ Americans face

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1192987300/oshae-sibley-stabbed-voguing-beyonce

* Friends, family, activists mourning death of O'Shae Sibley

* Black gay man stabbed 2023-07 wh. voguing to Beyoncé's music at NYC gas station

Paris Is Burning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Is_Burning_(film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7EhpY2yaA

* 1990 film; chronicles NYC ball culture & Black, Latino, gay, transgender communities involved

Madonna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJQSAiODqI

#BLM #ParisIsBurning #OShaeSibley

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

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Stand Out and Be Us: We Are Done Dying In Silence

https://www.commondreams.org/further/to-stand-out-and-be-us-we-are-done-dying-in-silence

*amid an ugly rise in anti-LGBTQ hate 100s of New Yorkers turned out to honor O'Shae Sibley, a black queer dancer stabbed to death by a white teenager as he & his friends were dancing to Beyoncé at a Brooklyn gas station

* nasty right-wing rhetoric increasingly spiraling into real world harm

* hate crime statistics: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/03/25/asian-hate-crime-fbi-black-lgbtq

#BLM #OShaeSibley #MarshallProject #AntiDefamationLeague