It’s not easy being the bisexual child of a world-famous celebrity. Just ask aspiring singer and reality TV star Juan Angel Lopez.
Lopez is the youngest child of the late Jenni Rivera, the iconic Latina pop artist whose life was cut tragically short when she died at age 43 in a plane crash in 2012.
In 2017, five years after his mother’s death, Lopez posted a video on social media saying he was in love with another boy his age.
In the video, the then-16-year-old said he hadn’t planned on coming out publicly yet, but decided to do so after his boyfriend, Joaquín Navarro, accidentally let the cat out of the bag in an innocent Instagram post when he called Lopez “the most handsome man on Earth”.
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“I still do not know my [sexual] preference, but I do know that I love this person very much and I am happy, as never before,” Lopez said at the time. “I think I’m bisexual, but honestly, all I know is that I love this person right now.”
Now, two years later, Lopez has revealed what happened after he came out.
In a series of tweets this week, Lopez, now 18, says he quickly became inundated with DMs from guys of all ages, even though he said in his coming out video that he was in a relationship.
Not just that, but many of the guys sent him dick pics, despite him being a minor.
“I could have done a full season of ‘Catch a Predator’,” he tweeted on Wednesday.
They’re lucky I’m 18 now. The amount of people that were sending their dicks to a minor, oof. I could’ve made a whole season of To Catch A Predator. https://t.co/B8cnSolyXb
— Juan Angel (@juanangel702) February 14, 2019
Lopez says the situation became really “f*cking annoying”, but it was dealing with people’s reactions that actually proved the biggest challenge.
Many people, he says, assumed “that sexuality defines your character, even though in reality it is a very small part of your whole being.”
“Being bisexual is literally, like, 5 percent of everything I am,” he says.
People treat you different based on stereotypes and they assume that your sexuality is your whole entire character, when in reality it’s one small part of you. I literally cannot express how being bisexual is literally like only 5% of who I am. https://t.co/zMkLSUnau3
— Juan Angel (@juanangel702) February 14, 2019
Rock-N-RollHS
Boyfriend. Of course. Looks gay to me. Good for him but stop playing the fluidity game.
startenout
Everything you say is awful and homophobic. Nobody “looks gay,” because that’s not a thing. There is no look to being gay; there’s short/tall, dark/fair, fat/thin, butch/femme and everything in between. This is simply an ugly statement of your own narrow minded stereotypes coming into play.
Bob3007
Uh startenout, with all due respect there is a gay “ look” many times you can look at a person and know they are gay long before they open there mouth and the purses start flying out. That’s not homophobic that is a fact.
kossl2000
Bob3007 you know thats called a stereotype right? You might correctly identify quite a few gays by look, but there have probably been a number of guys you pegged as gay who turned out to be straight. And doubtlessly countless “straight” looking men are actually gay. And all stereotypes are negative/harmful in some way, so yes, it’s homophobic. The only way to know if someone’s gay is to ask them or have them tell you
MarathonBoy
Just checked out his Insta and his and his boyfriend’s YT channel. They are both normal guys. No effeminacy. No cross-dressing. No weirdness. No green hair. No bizarre body art. No high pitched squealing. No sashaying about like women. No videos about clothes shopping and makeup.
Just normal American maleness. I like them.
djmcgamester
So if you’re bisexual you should only date someone of the opposite sex so people don’t think you’re gay? You realize that’s the worst logic ever.
BShade77
You go to Hell you SOB
ModeI
yeah really
samfw
What a hate-drunk, demented monster you are. Why not isolate yourself from decent human beings?
Bob LaBlah
What he should do is make himself the poster boy for young teen boys and start getting the word out that they should be VERY careful about telling the world that they are gay. Young boys are no different than young girls when it comes to sexual arousing older men. Thats been the rule since man started walking upright. No one needs to know what your preference is and once you decide to blab it to a world whom you have no idea whom else is reading your posts (as in social media) then you end up getting what you asked for, unwanted perverts.
startenout
Sharing your life on social media is NOT asking for pervs to send you their sick pics. It’s living your life. I love it when old queens act like there weren’t perverts before and that the youth are just asking for assault. I guess flashers were your fault for leaving the house and getting groped in a Club by someone you didn’t like was your fault for trying to have fun. Lord help these people.
Bob LaBlah
@startenout……”Lord help these people.”
If I knew where you were and had your email address I would gladly email you places where you can get some help. It sounds like you need some help bad. Based on your view of reality its ok to put up pics with yourself in the latest Andrew Christian gear and not expect sexually suggestive responses regardless of how right you feel you are in doing so or walk into a bar in a pair if skin tight pants with a bubble butt and not expect to be groped by drunken queens. I hope the Lord is listening for your sake.
Bob3007
Hey Bob LaBlah
You must be a bit older and have been around the gay world of reality, this dude has to be some young queen raised in this age of victimhood, participation trophies and RuPaul’s drag race ffs
PinkoOfTheGange
Or people could act their age and not send unsolicited nudes, but hey why expect civility?
Bob LaBlah
Lets just say I ain’t no spring chicken and no matter how long and hard I work in the gym I am NEVER going to pass for a day under fifty. lol
Our friend sounds like the type whom the gym staff has to pry off the e l l i p t i c a l machine with a crowbar and threatened with having their membership revoked if they don’t stop swinging and kicking at the staff while they do so because of complaints about how long she has been on it. I swear some of them seem as though they’ve glued their feet and hands to those machines. And lets not EVEN go into the hip abduction machine. By the time they get off of it you can’t help but look to see if the leather from the seat wore off into the seat of their workout pants/shorts.
Brian
What people should do and what people actually do can be two different things. Men should not send unsolicited dick pics. It’s rude and obnoxious and demeaning. Yet they do it in droves, both straight and gay. And it clearly is not going to stop. So you can either be offended and traumatized by the reality you have no control over, or you can adjust your own behavior, app settings, and types of posts you put out into the world to try to avoid it happening to you. Because that is the only thing within your control.
EricGMenkes
LOL
enlightenone
Another starting off with a false premise! Advising anyone to lock away their authentic self to include their sexual orientation is absurd! NO ONE suggests that heterosexual females or males hide their sexuality from the world in order not to be preyed upon or exploited in any way. That said, should anyone especially a young people post “provocative” pics of themselves on social media? That is the discussion to be debated!
prarie pup
Who’s Jenni Rivera?
PinkoOfTheGange
She sold about 20 million albums in the aughts and tweens.
Sold out sports arenas around the world…your normal pop star stuff.
Oh and all primarily done in Spanish. Not bad for a nice girl from Long Beach.
Pete le meat
All men have same-sex impulses. Some are weak, some are strong. Some men show them, most men hide them. Some men turn them into a political identity. Society – especially women – do not reward them.
crowebobby
I frankly and unashamedly love quite a bit of porn, but I can’t imagine a dick pic that wouldn’t turn me off. Not saying anyone else should feel the same way; just can’t understand it myself.
Blackceo
I am so happy for Juanito. To lose his mother the way he did, so suddenly, and so young was incredibly tragic. I am glad he is living his best life. I watch the reality show with his family and when he introduced his boyfriend to his family, they were so accepting and so loving to both of them, and in particular his boyfriend. One of his sisters told his boyfriend that he would never be alone and that even if he wasn’t accepted by his own family, they were also his family and he never had to worry about being alone. It made me tear up for sure because while great strides have been made, bisexuality and homosexuality is still very taboo in the Latino community. I wish his mother was still here to see the young man he’s grown into.
piriblue
I don’t enjoy and I do not use any of the media. I would think that sometimes a a nice dick pic can make your day. If you get ones that make your face turn red then erase. Just keep the ones that make you feel good. I don’t believe in playing the innocent game. I saw you in one of those Spanish news shows.
I remember seeing you. Didn’t pay much attention. As soon as i saw you I knew that you were gay. Now you are saying that you are not sure. I think everybody else knows. Should we tell you?