Slain dancer and friends were voguing to Beyonce’s 'Renaissance' before fatal attack at Brooklyn gas station

NEW YORK — They won’t break his soul.

O’Shae Sibley, the Brooklyn dancer slain at a Midwood gas station Saturday night, was voguing to a Beyoncé song before being confronted by a group of gay-bashing Muslims, his friends said.

Moments before the professional hoofer was fatally stabbed in what cops are investigating as a possible hate crime, he and his buddies were blasting Bey’s music and showing off their best moves while parading and pumping gas.

“Y’all murdered him right in front of me,” buddy Otis Pena said in a Facebook Live video he posted just hours after the homicide. “Just ... just pumping gas and listening to `Renaissance’ Just having a good time. Y’all killed O’Shae. Y’all killed him.”

After the stabbing, Sibley was rushed to Maimonides Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

There have been no arrests.

“Renaissance,” Beyoncé's blockbuster album, was the last music Sibley heard before his clash with the hateful crowd, his friends said.

While their critics were spewing homophobic insults, Sibley was trying to reason with them, his friend said.

“We may be gay, and we’re listening to our music,” Sibley said, according to his friend. “But it’s no hate. It’s all love.’”

Beyoncé’s album — with its pulsating “Break My Soul” single — has been topping the charts for months. The music is the backbone of the singer’s worldwide “Renaissance” tour, which made a stop at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Saturday and Sunday, the same weekend that Sibley lost his life.

The song samples Big Freedia and Robin S., two icons of the gay and dance music communities.

Voguing consists of quick successions of poses similar to those that would appear in fashion magazine editorials — dramatic and striking — while also embracing elements of gymnastics and ballet.

On her current tour, Beyoncé has been including voguing performances for “Break My Soul” with a group of backup dancers, as can be seen in YouTube videos

The show even includes a tribute to Black LGBTQ music pioneers. Beyoncé also dedicated the album to her late uncle and godmother Jonny, who died of complications from AIDS.

“He was my godmother and the first person to expose me to a lot of the music and culture that serve as inspiration for this album,” Beyoncé said in the album’s liner notes.

Jonny’s name also came up in the track “Heated,” where she raps, “Uncle Jonny made my dress.”

Beyoncé talked about her uncle’s battle with HIV while accepting the GLAAD Vanguard Award in 2019.

“I want to dedicate this award to my uncle, Jonny, the most fabulous gay man I have ever met, who helped raise me and my sister,” Beyoncé said at the time.

“He was brave and unapologetic during a time when this country wasn’t accepting. Witnessing his battle with HIV was one of the most painful experiences I’ve ever lived. I’m hopeful that his struggle served to open pathways for other young people to live more freely.”

Meanwhile, Beyoncé’s mother-in-law, Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria Carter, exchanged vows in a same-sex marriage with her partner, Roxanne Wilshire, in a celebration in New York earlier this month.

Friends said Beyoncé touched something deep in Sibley, 28, who has performed at Lincoln Center as part of an all-queer dance group.

His neighbor, Beckenbaur Hamilton, 51, said Sibley usually listened to Beyoncé’s music with the volume up.

“I heard it booming in his house,” Hamilton said, “‘Crazy in Love’ and all of those things. That’s his regular song. He’s a voguer. He loves house music, dance music. He comes out and the neighbors over there playing some old house music, he started dancing. He’s just a jolly dancer. He just up and starts voguing.”

Sibley, a prolific dancer, was in a ballroom troupe called House of DuMure-Versailles, which was featured in Season 3 of HBO’s ballroom reality competition "Legendary."

Sibley was returning with several friends from a beach trip to the Jersey Shore when their gas station antics drew homophobic protests from a group of men nearby, authorities and witnesses said.

The men were shirtless and in swim trunks on one of the hottest days of the year, dancing near the gas pumps when the Muslim men said their performance offended their faith.

“We live in a time where we can be our authentic selves, but we also live in times where people authentically hate us for having such freedom,” posted Aaliyah DuMure Versailles, the ballroom troupe’s founder, on Facebook after Sibley’s murder.

“We have to be careful y’all. Defending yourself just isn’t worth it anymore. Just walk away the moment you sense any type of trouble.”