The video in question, projected during the World Prideshowed a Miley Cyrus32 years old, within a closet. His words, initially jocular, were: “My God, I have not been here from sixth grade. Enjoy leaving the closet if this Pride is your time. It shouldn’t be a month, it should be a year, it should be infinite. I go back to look for more pretzels and find Jojo Siwa to get her again.”
This last sentence, apparently a joke between friends, is the one that has generated the controversy. Jojo Siwa22, he has recently experienced a change in his love life. After your participation in Celebrity Big Brother In April, Siwa revealed that he is no longer identified as a lesbian, after starting a relationship with his programmate, Chris Hughes. This, after concluding its relationship with Kath EBBs.
The reaction in social networks It has been divided. While some users criticized Miley Cyrus for their comment, arguing that it minimized Siwa’s experience and that it was not an appropriate joke for the Prideeven considering it a form of Bullying; Others came out in their defense, emphasizing their friendship with Siwa and their community support history LGBTQ+. Some comments on Twitter reflected the critical position: “I love Miley, but this is not right. Jojo never returned to the closet, it’s still queer!”either “That video where Jojo Siwa mocks is not well. It makes her look like a kind of mata.”
On the other hand, defenders of Cyrus argued that it was a joke between friends and that its own pansexual identity places it in a position of understanding. Others pointed out Cyrus’s long support history to the community and its close relationship with SIWA, as evidenced by a support message sent by Cyrus to Siwa last year, where I said: “Jojo, I love seeing you sweeping. You’re always sweeping, love, I love you. You’ve also realized how much I need dance classes. Those movements are incredible.”
Siwa, meanwhile, has talked openly about the complexity of his sexuality in recent interviews, stating: “It is really difficult because people destroy it. I understand that if you have no context why people destroy things … there are people going through the same thing I am happening. I have come out with beautiful women, I have left with beautiful non -binary people, I have come out with men … but I realize that I am. I realize that I simply like humans.” His relationship with Hughes, in his own words, is “wonderful.”
Siwa’s representative has been contacted for comments, while Cyrus representative has not been able to contact. The situation reveals the complexity of the LGBTQ+ narrative and the difficulty of navigating humor in such a sensitive context.
