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Jojo Siwa Discusses Being A “Gay Icon” With Fellow Icon Laverne Cox

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E!’s Live from E! at the 2021 People’s Choice Awards on Tuesday evening and had a chance to catch up with Jojo Siwa fresh off of her second-place finish on Dancing with the Stars — an achievement that led Ellen DeGeneres to label the teenage singer “a gay icon.”“Forty years ago, it was illegal for two women to dance together in public and two men to dance together,” Cox said. “That was why the Stonewall rebellion happened,” she reflected, while commenting on Siwa’s history-making appearance on DWTS.

Siwa was the first contestant to dance with a same-sex partner in the show’s 30 seasons. “So, it’s amazing that it wasn’t a big deal.

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