The monstrous nature of public life becomes almost unbelievable for those who exist outside the cis and heteronormative standards of Hollywood and beyond. The evidence for this can feel like an avalanche—the attack on Laverne Cox in November, the vitriol Elliot Page received for coming out, the open contempt for Zaya Wade online—but the most recent one comes via JoJo Siwa, who endured an LAPD raid after coming out online.
On Instagram Live, Siwa revealed she had been swatted on Saturday, after she told fans she was the “happiest” she’d “ever been” after coming out. YouTube user TRQFFIC posted footage from the raid—which is form of harassment in which trolls make false reports to police—and in a followup video, Siwa explained the events to fans: “Basically what happened is we were at our house and all of a sudden there was a whole bunch of police that were telling us to come outside the house and we didn’t know why.”
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