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Online superstar JoJo Siwa has officially come out as a member of the LGBTQ community.
Siwa, 17, opened up in an Instagram livestream over the weekend about being “just so happy” after she received an outpouring of support for two posts she made earlier last week that seemed to indicate she had come out.
“Someone asked, ‘How long have you been a part of the community? How long have you been whatever you are?’ I don’t know,” Siwa said. ”I think my whole life, because my whole life I have really really been just – I like people. But I never had fallen in love before, but I always believed my person was going to be my person. If that person happened to be a boy, then great. If that person happened to be a girl, great.”
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On TikTok, she shared a video of the pair to mark one month since my best friend asked me to be her girlfriend, and it s been the best month ever .
In a recent interview, JoJo shared the moment that she decided to come out to the world.
Speaking to Jimmy Fallon on in February, JoJo explained that when she was making the TikTok videos with her friends from Pride House LA, she had a feeling that the videos would out her. I think this TikTok that we re doing to Ain t It Fun is going to out me, she recalled. I don t really mind, because it is true, I have the most amazing, wonderful, perfect, most-beautiful girlfriend in the whole world.
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In January 2021, Snopes received multiple inquiries from readers about the accuracy of reports that JoJo Siwa, the popular dancer and teen YouTube star, had come out as gay.
On Jan. 22, for example, NBC News reported that:
“JoJo Siwa, the 17-year-old singer, dancer, actor and YouTube personality, has come out as gay, after alluding to it on social media in recent days.”
Such reports were accurate. Although, as of Jan. 23, Siwa had not explicitly stated that she is gay, in those words, she published social media posts that were widely understood to constitute her coming out, and she promoted a tweet that celebrated her “coming out as gay.”