Jennifer Lopez delivers Pride month message, urges LGBTQ+ community: ‘You deserve all 12 months’

Jennifer Lopez kicked off Pride Month with a video message Monday calling on the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate all year — and jokingly giving fans permission to skip work in its honor.

In the video, shared through Netflix’s “Most” account on Instagram, Ms. Lopez said the community deserves to celebrate “all 12 months of the year” and urged viewers to make June “extra, extra special,” according to multiple reports. She added a more earnest note, expressing hope that their months would be filled with “love, laughter, joy, and chosen family,” and addressed those not yet out, saying there was no rush and “just love.”

The clip was part of Netflix’s promotional campaign for “Office Romance,” Ms. Lopez’s upcoming romantic comedy with the streamer, in which she plays a corporate executive who enforces a strict no-dating policy. The film premieres Friday.

The message comes as Ms. Lopez’s family is in the public eye following a separate development involving her 18-year-old child. According to Complex and multiple other outlets, a social-media account dedicated to documenting college decisions of graduating seniors at Windward School in Los Angeles identified the graduate — formerly known publicly as Emme Muniz — by a new name, Oskar Jacob Muniz, and noted plans to attend Sarah Lawrence College this fall to study theater and studio arts. The post has since been taken down. Neither Ms. Lopez nor her child has publicly addressed the apparent name change.

In 2022, Ms. Lopez introduced her then-14-year-old child at the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation Blue Diamond Gala using they/them pronouns, an early public acknowledgment that drew widespread attention at the time. Ms. Lopez shares the twins, Oskar and brother Max, with her former husband, singer Marc Anthony.