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• ARE THE BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR BAND GAY?
• BLAK, GAY AND POZ - BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR EXPLOR ISSU SURROUNDG HIVINDIGENO, GAY AND HIV-POSIVE ARE THE MA TOPICS EXPLORED BY NARANGGA KRNA MAN AND CHOREOGRAPHER, JAB BOEHME HIS PERSONAL STORY, BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR AT SYDNEY FTIVAL.JAB BOEHME’S BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR EXPLOR BLAK, GAY, POZ AND IS PART OF SYDNEY FTIVAL. SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORAS A SEA OF PEOPLE LE UP THE HALLWAY OF CARRIAGEWORKS, CHATTG AMONGST THEMSELV ANTICIPATN OF THE PERFORMANCE... SUDNLY A VOICE BOOMS OVER THE CROWD - ALL EY ON HER. AND ’S CLEAR THE SHOW HAS BEGUN.ALREADY CHARACTER, JAB BOEHME WALTZ UP AND DOWN THE AISLE OF PEOPLE, DRAPED A KIMONO WH NOTHG ELSE BUT GLAMORO DIAMOND DROOPG EARRGS. IN HIS WORDS, HE LOOKS ‘FIERCE BCH!’ HE FLAMBOYANTLY WEL IENDS AND FANS, SC THE CROWD WH SMACKS ON THE BOTTOM AND STG ON LAPS. ENGAGG AND ENTERTAG OM THE MOMENT YOU ENTER THE ROOM; BUT YOU HAVEN’T SEEN ANYTHG YET. SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORIT’S BEEN 30 YEARS. 30 WHOLE YEARS THAT JAB’S ALT WH THE GLOBAL EPIMIC OF HIV, THE EXPERIENC OF STIGMA, DISCRIMATN AND SILENCE AROUND THE ADLY VIS. BY SHARG HIS PERSONAL STORY, UNAPOLOGETILLY, OF BEG A WHE INDIGENO FELLA (BLAK), SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO OTHER MEN (GAY) AND HIV POSIVE (POZ); BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR PROVIS A EPER SIGHT TO THE STGGL, DISCRIMATN AND SILENCE THAT STILL SURROUND THE HIV VIS NTEMPORARY SOCIETY WH THE AIM OF ELIMATG THE NEGATIVE STIGMAS. MR BOEHME SAYS BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR, WH THE ILBIJERRI THEATRE COMPANY IS AN OPPORTUNY TO CREATE A SPACE FOR OUR MOB TO HAVE A VOICE THE DIALOGUE AROUND HIV. “WE NEED A NVERSATN AT A TABLE WE HAVE NOT BEEN VED TO THIS UNTRY, WHICH HAS SO FAR BEEN LED AND RERVED FOR GAY WHE MEN,” HE SAID.“OUR MOB HAS BEEN ALG WH HIV RIGHT OM THE EARLY DAYS, BACK THE 80S, MOSTLY SILENTLY AND WH SHAME. WE ARE NOW SEEG A SPIKE TENTN RAT ACROSS THE UNTRY; PARTICULARLY AMONGST INDIGENO WOMEN AND IV DG ERS OUR MUNY. NOW MORE THAN EVER WE NEED TO TAKE OUR SEAT AT THAT TABLE, OUR SILENCE BROKEN AND OUR VOIC HEARD.”BUNDJALUNG/YAEGL WOMAN AND DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER, MARIAA RANDALL HAS REFULLY CREATED AN EMOTNAL JOURNEY THROUGH HER UTILISATN OF LOURFULLY CRAFTED MOVEMENT. WH EVERY CHAPTER OF JAB’S STORYTELLG A POWERFUL WAVE OF BODY LANGUAGE THAT PATS A PICTURE THROUGH A FN OF INDIGENO STEPS AND MORN NTEMPORARY ROUT. FROM DANGERO BEATS TO EMOTNAL BLISS, THE CHOREOGRAPHY EMPHASIS THE TONE OF THE PERFORMER’S MOOD. WH JT THE SIMPLE LIFT OF A FGER MS RANDALL CLEVERLY CREAT AN TENSE ATMOSPHERE WHERE THE ENTIRE DIENCE IS HOOKED ON BOEHME'S NEXT STEP. THE TRADNAL ABORIGAL MOVEMENTS OF HEAVY STOMPS, WI EAGLE LIKE CLAPS AND TRITE FOOTWORK BRG IMAGERY OF BEG OUT BH, AND PROVIS A REHG BREATH OF ARTISTIC CULTURE A NEW LIGHT. BOEHME’S TECHNIQUE, TIMG AND ABILY TO TRANSFORM DIALOGUE TO A STORY OF MOVEMENT IS BRILLIANTLY CRAFTED AND HIGHLIGHTED HIS MULTI-DISCIPLARY THEATRE MAKG ABILI.   BLAK: SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORJAB BOEHME IS NO STRANGER TO STIGMA. HE IS GAY, HE HAS HIV AND HE’S A FAIR SKNED, INDIGENO MAN. YET NONE OF THIS CHANGED HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS FATHER, WHO IS PORTRAYED AS A IL MAN WH A RICH CULTURE AND LOVE FOR HIS FAY AND ABORIGAL HERAGE. BOEHME TOOK PEOPLE ON AN EMOTNAL JOURNEY BACK ON UNTRY, WHERE THEY WERE ABLE TO SEE A EP SIGHT TO THE NNECTN HE SHARED WH HIS DAD, CULTURE AND ELRS. BOEHME’S ABILY TO MAKE PEOPLE LGH AND CRY WAS MAGILLY BALANCED. FROM SHARG STORI ABOUT A WHE BABY BOY BBG HIMSELF ‘GOONA’ TO BE THE SAME LOUR AS HIS DAD, HE OPENED THE DOOR TO A PRIVATE LIFE OF RACISM THAT GENERATNS OF HIS FAY ENDURED. ALL THE WHILE, MANAGG TO PERFECT HIS INDIGENO FATHER’S VOICE, WHICH HUMOROLY HELPED SET THE PERFECT SCENE FOR STRANGERS TO UNRSTAND A PLETELY DIFFERENT CULTURE.YOU’RE SO WHE BUT I STILL LOVE YOU BEE YOU’RE MY BLOOD.ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL SCEN TLY MAKE YOU NNECTED TO THE BH, SPE BEG THE CENTRE OF SYDNEY CY. HIS FATHER WAS HAVG A YARN ABOUT HOW HE WANTED TO BE SENT OFF. HE PATED AN IMAGE OF BEG CREMATED AND HAVG HIS ASH BROUGHT DOWN NEAR THE LAKE, AND HAD TO BE AT SUNSET! WHERE THEY WOULD BE L ON FIRE AND WATCHED AS THEY DRIFTED OFF TO THE SKY WH THE SUN… ‘AND THEN YOU JT S AND REMEMBER ME.’ IT WAS AT THIS MOMENT WHERE VIEWERS ULD FEEL THE NNECTN TO CULTURE AND SENSE AN APPRECIATN OF LAND AND NATURE FOR INDIGENO ATRALIANS LIKE JAB AND HIS FATHER.POZ: SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORARE YOU CLEAN? THE WORDS STILL ECHO MY HEAD.NOT ONLY ONE OF THE MOST NONTG SEQUENC, BUT A REMR THAT IF YOU’RE NOT SAFE, YOUR WHOLE LIFE N CHANGE WH ONE WORD. POSIVE.BOEHME'S EXHILARATG PA OF WILD NIGHTS WH RAGG HORMON AND STRONG SCENTS OF AMAL AND SWEAT, SET THE SCENE FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT AND A PARTY TO REMEMBER. WH TECHNO BEATS PULSATG FASTER AND FASTER, HIS MOVEMENTS BEE MORE TENSE. DANCG THE SHADOW OF A SILHOUETTE, A BLANK WHE SHEET SHOWG A BLACK MOVG FIGURE AND HIS STORY STARTG OFF SEXY, EE AND IVOLO SOON STARTS SPEEDG TO A REALY OF RECKLSNS AND DRAMATIC NSEQUENC WH A RED VISUAL BACKDROP THAT BLEEDS WH EVERY MOVEMENT HE MAK.   BOEHME SHARED NOT ONLY HIS OWN PRIVATE AND POWERFUL PERFORMANCE PIECE BUT ALSO A STORY REFLECTG NTEMPORARY ISSU FACG YOUNG MAL WH HIV. AN INDIGENO IEND OF HIS RECEIV TT RULTS WHICH INTIFY HIM AS HIV POSIVE. HE WANTS NO PY OM JAB, STEAD A PANN THAT WILL ACPANY HIM OUT UNTRY TO SEE HIS ELRS. AFTER DRIVG FOR HOURS TO GO BH, HE FAC HIS MOB AND TELLS THEM HIS SUATN. SOON AFTER HE IS DISOWNED OM THE TRIBE, ASKED TO LEAVE AND BANISHED OM HIS UNTRY. BY THE NEXT WEEK HE’S ALREADY MTED SUICI. HE WAS ONLY HIS TWENTI AND HAD HIS WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF HIM. BOEHME WANTED THIS STORY TO BE REMEMBERED BEE ’S A RAW SIGHT OF A MAN REPRENTG THE NARRATIVE OF LIVG WH HIV TODAY'S SOCIETY. GAY: SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORDO YOU REMEMBER THE LAST TIME YOU WENT ON A FIRST DATE, OR THE FIRST PHASE OF LIKG SOMEONE? BOEHME BRGS THE DIENCE BACK TO TIM OF LT AND QUTNABLY LOVE, WHERE YOU WEIGH UP THE PRO'S AND N'S ABOUT EVERYTHG AND ANYTHG ABOUT THE NEW GUY OR GAL YOUR LIFE. HIS WORDS ARE RAW, REAL, IL AND LOURFUL - BOTH THE DIVA AND VILISH KD OF WAY... MAKG AN ENTIRE ROOM OF STRANGERS ALREADY FEEL LIKE HIS BT IEND. DPE SHARG AND AT SOME TIM OVER-SHARG RMATN, HE HOLDS BACK ON THE KEY ISSUE PREVENTG HIM OM FURTHERG HIS RELATNSHIP - A DIAGNOSIS HE GOT WHEN HE WAS 24, HIV. THE SELECTN OF MIC AND CHOREOGRAPHY SUGGT THAT HE HAS A DARK SECRET, ONE THAT HAS IMPACTED HIS PREV RELATNSHIPS AND ONE THAT WILL NTUE TO DO SO HIS FUTURE.MR BOEHME’S FAL PRODUCT IS SO MUCH MORE THAN JT A PERFORMANCE. IT’S LIKE A LOURFUL, POWERFUL POTN.DURG THE PHYSIL, VISUAL EMOTNAL TRIP SOME THGS WILL BRG YOU UP TO A STATE OF ECSTASY WHILE OTHERS WILL DRAG YOU DOWN TO LD HARD REALY.  BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR, PART OF SYDNEY FTIVAL, IS ON JANUARY 21-25 AT CARRIAGEWORKS, 245 WILSON STREET, EVELEIGH.  SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORRECOMMENDED ARTICLES:'WHICH WAY HOME': THE PLAY STEALG HEARTS AND CHANGG MDS AT THE SYDNEY FTIVALSYDNEY FTIVAL TO TELL UNTOLD STORI LANGUAGEBLOOD AND PRI: MEET THE MAN BEHD THE POWERFUL STORY SET TO STUN SYDNEY FTIVALSYDNEY FTIVAL DIRECTOR: "ENRICH YOUR LIV THROUGH CULTURE"ALL INDIGENO STARS PERFORM THE SEASON AT SYDNEY FTIVAL 2017 SHARE7 M READPUBLISHED 23 JANUARY 2017 6:04PMUPDATED 23 JANUARY 2017 6:37PMBY LRA MORELLITAGSCULTURE AND LANGUAGEABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR PEOPLSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREPOPULAR STORI
• IS THE BAND BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR GAY?

ARE THE BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR BAND GAY?

Monroe is openly gay and a male-to-female cross-drser. Contue Learng about Mic & RadIs jay om blood on the dance floor gay?

Jayy Von Monroe om Blood On The Dance Floor IS gay.

BLAK, GAY AND POZ - BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR EXPLOR ISSU SURROUNDG HIVINDIGENO, GAY AND HIV-POSIVE ARE THE MA TOPICS EXPLORED BY NARANGGA KRNA MAN AND CHOREOGRAPHER, JAB BOEHME HIS PERSONAL STORY, BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR AT SYDNEY FTIVAL.JAB BOEHME’S BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR EXPLOR BLAK, GAY, POZ AND IS PART OF SYDNEY FTIVAL. SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORAS A SEA OF PEOPLE LE UP THE HALLWAY OF CARRIAGEWORKS, CHATTG AMONGST THEMSELV ANTICIPATN OF THE PERFORMANCE... SUDNLY A VOICE BOOMS OVER THE CROWD - ALL EY ON HER. AND ’S CLEAR THE SHOW HAS BEGUN.ALREADY CHARACTER, JAB BOEHME WALTZ UP AND DOWN THE AISLE OF PEOPLE, DRAPED A KIMONO WH NOTHG ELSE BUT GLAMORO DIAMOND DROOPG EARRGS. IN HIS WORDS, HE LOOKS ‘FIERCE BCH!’ HE FLAMBOYANTLY WEL IENDS AND FANS, SC THE CROWD WH SMACKS ON THE BOTTOM AND STG ON LAPS. ENGAGG AND ENTERTAG OM THE MOMENT YOU ENTER THE ROOM; BUT YOU HAVEN’T SEEN ANYTHG YET. SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORIT’S BEEN 30 YEARS. 30 WHOLE YEARS THAT JAB’S ALT WH THE GLOBAL EPIMIC OF HIV, THE EXPERIENC OF STIGMA, DISCRIMATN AND SILENCE AROUND THE ADLY VIS. BY SHARG HIS PERSONAL STORY, UNAPOLOGETILLY, OF BEG A WHE INDIGENO FELLA (BLAK), SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO OTHER MEN (GAY) AND HIV POSIVE (POZ); BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR PROVIS A EPER SIGHT TO THE STGGL, DISCRIMATN AND SILENCE THAT STILL SURROUND THE HIV VIS NTEMPORARY SOCIETY WH THE AIM OF ELIMATG THE NEGATIVE STIGMAS. MR BOEHME SAYS BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR, WH THE ILBIJERRI THEATRE COMPANY IS AN OPPORTUNY TO CREATE A SPACE FOR OUR MOB TO HAVE A VOICE THE DIALOGUE AROUND HIV. “WE NEED A NVERSATN AT A TABLE WE HAVE NOT BEEN VED TO THIS UNTRY, WHICH HAS SO FAR BEEN LED AND RERVED FOR GAY WHE MEN,” HE SAID.“OUR MOB HAS BEEN ALG WH HIV RIGHT OM THE EARLY DAYS, BACK THE 80S, MOSTLY SILENTLY AND WH SHAME. WE ARE NOW SEEG A SPIKE TENTN RAT ACROSS THE UNTRY; PARTICULARLY AMONGST INDIGENO WOMEN AND IV DG ERS OUR MUNY. NOW MORE THAN EVER WE NEED TO TAKE OUR SEAT AT THAT TABLE, OUR SILENCE BROKEN AND OUR VOIC HEARD.”BUNDJALUNG/YAEGL WOMAN AND DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER, MARIAA RANDALL HAS REFULLY CREATED AN EMOTNAL JOURNEY THROUGH HER UTILISATN OF LOURFULLY CRAFTED MOVEMENT. WH EVERY CHAPTER OF JAB’S STORYTELLG A POWERFUL WAVE OF BODY LANGUAGE THAT PATS A PICTURE THROUGH A FN OF INDIGENO STEPS AND MORN NTEMPORARY ROUT. FROM DANGERO BEATS TO EMOTNAL BLISS, THE CHOREOGRAPHY EMPHASIS THE TONE OF THE PERFORMER’S MOOD. WH JT THE SIMPLE LIFT OF A FGER MS RANDALL CLEVERLY CREAT AN TENSE ATMOSPHERE WHERE THE ENTIRE DIENCE IS HOOKED ON BOEHME'S NEXT STEP. THE TRADNAL ABORIGAL MOVEMENTS OF HEAVY STOMPS, WI EAGLE LIKE CLAPS AND TRITE FOOTWORK BRG IMAGERY OF BEG OUT BH, AND PROVIS A REHG BREATH OF ARTISTIC CULTURE A NEW LIGHT. BOEHME’S TECHNIQUE, TIMG AND ABILY TO TRANSFORM DIALOGUE TO A STORY OF MOVEMENT IS BRILLIANTLY CRAFTED AND HIGHLIGHTED HIS MULTI-DISCIPLARY THEATRE MAKG ABILI.   BLAK: SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORJAB BOEHME IS NO STRANGER TO STIGMA. HE IS GAY, HE HAS HIV AND HE’S A FAIR SKNED, INDIGENO MAN. YET NONE OF THIS CHANGED HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS FATHER, WHO IS PORTRAYED AS A IL MAN WH A RICH CULTURE AND LOVE FOR HIS FAY AND ABORIGAL HERAGE. BOEHME TOOK PEOPLE ON AN EMOTNAL JOURNEY BACK ON UNTRY, WHERE THEY WERE ABLE TO SEE A EP SIGHT TO THE NNECTN HE SHARED WH HIS DAD, CULTURE AND ELRS. BOEHME’S ABILY TO MAKE PEOPLE LGH AND CRY WAS MAGILLY BALANCED. FROM SHARG STORI ABOUT A WHE BABY BOY BBG HIMSELF ‘GOONA’ TO BE THE SAME LOUR AS HIS DAD, HE OPENED THE DOOR TO A PRIVATE LIFE OF RACISM THAT GENERATNS OF HIS FAY ENDURED. ALL THE WHILE, MANAGG TO PERFECT HIS INDIGENO FATHER’S VOICE, WHICH HUMOROLY HELPED SET THE PERFECT SCENE FOR STRANGERS TO UNRSTAND A PLETELY DIFFERENT CULTURE.YOU’RE SO WHE BUT I STILL LOVE YOU BEE YOU’RE MY BLOOD.ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL SCEN TLY MAKE YOU NNECTED TO THE BH, SPE BEG THE CENTRE OF SYDNEY CY. HIS FATHER WAS HAVG A YARN ABOUT HOW HE WANTED TO BE SENT OFF. HE PATED AN IMAGE OF BEG CREMATED AND HAVG HIS ASH BROUGHT DOWN NEAR THE LAKE, AND HAD TO BE AT SUNSET! WHERE THEY WOULD BE L ON FIRE AND WATCHED AS THEY DRIFTED OFF TO THE SKY WH THE SUN… ‘AND THEN YOU JT S AND REMEMBER ME.’ IT WAS AT THIS MOMENT WHERE VIEWERS ULD FEEL THE NNECTN TO CULTURE AND SENSE AN APPRECIATN OF LAND AND NATURE FOR INDIGENO ATRALIANS LIKE JAB AND HIS FATHER.POZ: SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORARE YOU CLEAN? THE WORDS STILL ECHO MY HEAD.NOT ONLY ONE OF THE MOST NONTG SEQUENC, BUT A REMR THAT IF YOU’RE NOT SAFE, YOUR WHOLE LIFE N CHANGE WH ONE WORD. POSIVE.BOEHME'S EXHILARATG PA OF WILD NIGHTS WH RAGG HORMON AND STRONG SCENTS OF AMAL AND SWEAT, SET THE SCENE FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT AND A PARTY TO REMEMBER. WH TECHNO BEATS PULSATG FASTER AND FASTER, HIS MOVEMENTS BEE MORE TENSE. DANCG THE SHADOW OF A SILHOUETTE, A BLANK WHE SHEET SHOWG A BLACK MOVG FIGURE AND HIS STORY STARTG OFF SEXY, EE AND IVOLO SOON STARTS SPEEDG TO A REALY OF RECKLSNS AND DRAMATIC NSEQUENC WH A RED VISUAL BACKDROP THAT BLEEDS WH EVERY MOVEMENT HE MAK.   BOEHME SHARED NOT ONLY HIS OWN PRIVATE AND POWERFUL PERFORMANCE PIECE BUT ALSO A STORY REFLECTG NTEMPORARY ISSU FACG YOUNG MAL WH HIV. AN INDIGENO IEND OF HIS RECEIV TT RULTS WHICH INTIFY HIM AS HIV POSIVE. HE WANTS NO PY OM JAB, STEAD A PANN THAT WILL ACPANY HIM OUT UNTRY TO SEE HIS ELRS. AFTER DRIVG FOR HOURS TO GO BH, HE FAC HIS MOB AND TELLS THEM HIS SUATN. SOON AFTER HE IS DISOWNED OM THE TRIBE, ASKED TO LEAVE AND BANISHED OM HIS UNTRY. BY THE NEXT WEEK HE’S ALREADY MTED SUICI. HE WAS ONLY HIS TWENTI AND HAD HIS WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF HIM. BOEHME WANTED THIS STORY TO BE REMEMBERED BEE ’S A RAW SIGHT OF A MAN REPRENTG THE NARRATIVE OF LIVG WH HIV TODAY'S SOCIETY. GAY: SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORDO YOU REMEMBER THE LAST TIME YOU WENT ON A FIRST DATE, OR THE FIRST PHASE OF LIKG SOMEONE? BOEHME BRGS THE DIENCE BACK TO TIM OF LT AND QUTNABLY LOVE, WHERE YOU WEIGH UP THE PRO'S AND N'S ABOUT EVERYTHG AND ANYTHG ABOUT THE NEW GUY OR GAL YOUR LIFE. HIS WORDS ARE RAW, REAL, IL AND LOURFUL - BOTH THE DIVA AND VILISH KD OF WAY... MAKG AN ENTIRE ROOM OF STRANGERS ALREADY FEEL LIKE HIS BT IEND. DPE SHARG AND AT SOME TIM OVER-SHARG RMATN, HE HOLDS BACK ON THE KEY ISSUE PREVENTG HIM OM FURTHERG HIS RELATNSHIP - A DIAGNOSIS HE GOT WHEN HE WAS 24, HIV. THE SELECTN OF MIC AND CHOREOGRAPHY SUGGT THAT HE HAS A DARK SECRET, ONE THAT HAS IMPACTED HIS PREV RELATNSHIPS AND ONE THAT WILL NTUE TO DO SO HIS FUTURE.MR BOEHME’S FAL PRODUCT IS SO MUCH MORE THAN JT A PERFORMANCE. IT’S LIKE A LOURFUL, POWERFUL POTN.DURG THE PHYSIL, VISUAL EMOTNAL TRIP SOME THGS WILL BRG YOU UP TO A STATE OF ECSTASY WHILE OTHERS WILL DRAG YOU DOWN TO LD HARD REALY.  BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR, PART OF SYDNEY FTIVAL, IS ON JANUARY 21-25 AT CARRIAGEWORKS, 245 WILSON STREET, EVELEIGH.  SOURCE: BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOORRECOMMENDED ARTICLES:'WHICH WAY HOME': THE PLAY STEALG HEARTS AND CHANGG MDS AT THE SYDNEY FTIVALSYDNEY FTIVAL TO TELL UNTOLD STORI LANGUAGEBLOOD AND PRI: MEET THE MAN BEHD THE POWERFUL STORY SET TO STUN SYDNEY FTIVALSYDNEY FTIVAL DIRECTOR: "ENRICH YOUR LIV THROUGH CULTURE"ALL INDIGENO STARS PERFORM THE SEASON AT SYDNEY FTIVAL 2017 SHARE7 M READPUBLISHED 23 JANUARY 2017 6:04PMUPDATED 23 JANUARY 2017 6:37PMBY LRA MORELLITAGSCULTURE AND LANGUAGEABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR PEOPLSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREPOPULAR STORI

and to someone on Twter claimg to be his famo sgers are gay? Jay Von Monroe om Blood On The Dance Floor is gay, but he's. still amazg:)Is matalli a gay band?

No, Metalli is not a gay band. They are a rock the band Three Days Grace gay? No, the band Three Days Grace is not any of the band members Paramore gay?

None of the members are gay. As projected cells or bubbl swim the background he pivots and sps, bends and arch low, as if fluid choreography were the only way, that ceasels stream, to stay Jab Boehme's solo dance theatre piece elics as much empathy as Boehme – Indigeno, HIV-posive, a gay man – blood leav a legacy of fear, discrimatn and shame. He's a "gay elr" om Sydney, ribbg as we enter ("Ooh-la-roo!

IS THE BAND BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR GAY?

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“We need a nversatn at a table we have not been ved to this untry, which has so far been led and rerved for gay whe men, ” he said. He is gay, he has HIV and he’s a fair skned, Indigeno man. GAY: Source: Blood on the Dance FloorDo you remember the last time you went on a first date, or the first phase of likg someone?

Jay is gay and not the members of blood on the dance floor gay? Jay Von Monroe is an unknown sexual Vany perfers the oppose sex ( Femal) Mary Murphy om so you thk you n dance gay?