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    Vogue as resistance: LA ballroom scene protests O'Shae Sibley death with dance at a gas station

    LOS ANGELES — Dozens of members from the West Coast ballroom community gathered at a central Los Angeles gas station Friday evening to dance in protest of the death of O'Shae Sibley. Sibley was fatally stabbed at a gas station in Brooklyn on July 29 after he vogued to Beyoncé music near the gas pumps. The L.A. protesters on Friday gathered in a circle at a Shell station (unconnected to the ...
    by Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times Aug 05, 2023 3 minutes
    Day Day Telfar Basquiat holds a sign honoring O'Shae Sibley at a gas station in Los Angeles on Aug. 4, 2023, as protesters from the ballroom scene dance between the pumps.

    LOS ANGELES — Dozens of members from the West Coast ballroom community gathered at a central Los Angeles gas station Friday evening to dance in protest of the death of O'Shae Sibley.

    Sibley was in Brooklyn on July 29 after he vogued to Beyoncé music near the gas pumps. The L.A. protesters on Friday gathered in a circle at a Shell station (unconnected to the Sibley killing) and began voguing their way to the center. One person entered, swinging their arms in sharp movements and tilting their head back into a dip while others chanted,

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