Who is gay in blood on the dance floor

SCREENING AND Q&A

Join us for a special screening of the powerful BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight documentary, Blood on the Dance Floor. It describes how Darren Bradshaw, a gay police officer, was shot deceased by a republican gunman in The Parliament Bar, a gay bar in Belfast, in 1997, and the impact of his killing and its circumstances. It also explores the experiences of the LGBT group in this period.

Building on the critically-acclaimed podcast of the same name, Blood On The Sway Floor broke modern ground with television audiences on BBC Two and BBC Northern Ireland, as well with reviewers – the programme was lauded by the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, The Times and the Radio Times.

This event coincides with Event Week and will be followed by a Q&A with its creator, Jordan Dunbar, and with Producer/Director Paddy Fee – allowing us to discuss what’s involved in current affairs journalism, including the BBC podcast series on which this edition of Spotlight was based, as well as the challenges of turning a clap podcast into a TV documentary.

This filtering has been made possible with assistance from BBC NI.

Jacob Boehme's Blood on the Dance Floor breaks silence about HIV

Jacob Boehme’s autobiographical Blood on the Boogie Floor digs intimately and honestly into living with HIV in Australia—as both a gay man and an Aboriginal man.

The theatremaker, dancer, writer, and puppeteer found out in 1998 that he had the virus. That kind of diagnosis might lead you to expect bleak subject matter in his solo show. Instead, the multidisciplinary work is, at its core, about hope and love, he stresses.

“No matter how bad things acquire, there’s that simple human desire for love,” the Melbourne-based artist, a member of the Narangga and Kaurna nations of southern Australia, tells the Straight from a tour block in Alberta. “When you face your mortality, as I did 20 years ago, you live or you die. Admittedly, I was very young when I got my diagnosis. And of course I had a range of emotions; the seven paths of grieving came along. But that quickly came around: that child in me was saying, ‘I want to live.’ ”

The impetus for the movie came in 2013, the year that marked the 30th anniversary of the first HIV diagnosis in Australia. Boehme had considered telling his personal story on-stage, a

Acclaimed BBC podcast Blood On The Dance Floor adapted for screen for BBC Northern Ireland and BBC iPlayer

Blood On The Boogie Floor, the acclaimed BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds podcast, has been commissioned as a television documentary for BBC Northern Ireland and BBC iPlayer.

The hour-long special is presented by journalist Jordan Dunbar, who investigates the unsolved case of 24 year old off-duty police officer Darren Bradshaw, shot dead in The Parliament Bar in 1997 – which at the moment was Belfast’s only openly gay bar.

Jordan Dunbar, who was a comedian and drag performer in Belfast before becoming a BBC journalist, looks back at Darren’s murder as adv as examining what it was like to be gay during the Troubles. The killing came at a pivotal time for both the gay scene in Northern Ireland and the peace process.

The republican paramilitary group the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility for the killing but no one has ever been convicted for Darren's murder. The documentary, for BBC NI Spotlight, will include recent interviews, never before seen archive footage of the LGBT scene and shines new light on what’s been described as ‘the secret history of be

Blak, Gay and Poz - Blood on the Dance Floor explores issues surrounding HIV

As a sea of people line up in the hallway of Carriageworks, chatting amongst themselves in anticipation of the performance... suddenly a voice booms over the crowd - all eyes on her. And it’s clear the show has begun.

Already in character, Jacob Boehme waltzes up and down the aisle of people, draped in a kimono with nothing else but glamorous diamond drooping earrings. In his words, he looks ‘fierce bitch!’ He flamboyantly welcomes friends and fans, seduces the crowd with smacks on the bottom and sitting on laps. Engaging and entertaining from the moment you infiltrate the room; but you haven’t seen anything yet.

Source: Blood on the Dance Floor

It’s been 30 years. 30 whole years that Jacob’s dealt with the global epidemic of HIV, the experiences of stigma, discrimination and silence around the deadly virus. By sharing his personal story, unapologetically, of existence a white Indigenous fella (blak), sexually attracted to other men (gay) and HIV positive (poz); Blood on the Move Floor provides a deeper insight into the struggles, discrimination

Blood on the Dance Floor
All the Rage

Review Summary: A generic Breathe Carolina ripoff...which is a huge step up from the rest of their discography.

Blood on the Dance Floor sucks, plain and basic . That's what I idea the first time I heard them a couple of years ago, and even now as I am giving this album a 3/5, I still firmly stand by that statement. My first life with the band was as a high college student, and after I had just listened to Dr. Acula's Below Me, the worst metal album ever recorded period, I started noticing two bands trending at my local Hot Topic while looking for a cool T-shirt: Black Veils Brides and Blood on the Gyrate Floor. Several hours later, I regretted finding out more about either of them.

"BOTDF are terrible and they don't care" is probably everyone's first reaction to them whether you like them or not, but songs like "I Heart Hello Kitty" and "Sexting" instigated pure unadulterated visceral hatred in me. A guy named Dahvie Vanity farting around his 1985 keyboard like a 14 year old who has no idea what a Korg is, his limited and intolerably grating vocal range and his shallow lyrics about getting blow jobs are all qualities of th