Jennifer Lopez has said her new show about lesbian moms is a homage to her late gay aunt.

In a tearful interview with Entertainment Tonight, she explored the personal reasons why she wanted to create the new ABC Family drama The Fosters.

Asked whether she thought the show would be controversial, Lopez said: ‘I think it might be. But I think that’s ok.

‘I had an aunt who was gay. I lived with her and I loved her. She just passed away from cancer. 

Jennifer Lopez will appear on screen in new drama series The Fosters, for which she is also the producer.

The show will focus on the lives of a lesbian couple and their family.

Jake Austin, who plays the foster son of Lena and Stef Foster in the series, said Lopez intends to appear in a cameo role during an episode of the show.

The American television network ABC Family has released an exclusive new promo for its upcoming show  ‘The Fosters’.

The show, which is produced by singer Jennifer Lopez, will center around school vice principal Lena, her police officer partner Stef, and their children.

The Fosters will become one of the only primetime shows in America to feature a female gay couple raising children, following in the footsteps of pro-gay but male-oriented shows Modern Family, The New Normal and Will & Grace.

After a video of Jason Russell in a nude rant at a San Diego intersection went viral, there was immediate speculation online that the KONY 2012 filmmaker was gay.

So when Russell appeared on Oprah's Next Chapter on the OWN network Sunday (7 September), host Oprah Winfrey asked Russell if he is gay.

Two actresses have been cast in pop and movie star Jennifer Lopez’s new lesbian sitcom.

Teri Polo, who is best known for appearing in the Ben Stiller comedy Meet The Parents, and Sherri Saum, who starred in TV series Gossip Girl, will play the leads.

The project tells the story of Stef, played by Polo, and Lena, played Saum, who are a mixed-race couple raising a biological son along with several adopted children.

Justin Bartha came to fame starring with Nicholas Cage in the hit comedy National Treasure and its sequel then had another major success as one of the stars of The Hangover franchise.

In between, he starred with Matthew McConaughey in the hit comedy Failure to Launch as well as Trust the Man and The Rebound. He also had a major role in the notorious box office bomb Gigli which starred then-couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.

Pop star Jennifer Lopez is suing US magazines for claiming her dancer boyfriend Casper Smart was spotted at a gay sex club.

In its report, Star Magazine included photographs of Smart outside a peep show in New York and claimed it was a ‘well-known cruising spot’ or gay men.

In Touch also ran a similar story, saying he was ‘caught’ with an ‘exotic masseuse’ the day before J-Lo’s birthday.

Latino superstar Jennifer Lopez is developing a lesbian themed family television drama, and according to reports she may also star in the series.

The untitled series will focus on two overworked mothers, a police officer and a private school teacher, who have a biological son and two adopted kids.

Their lives are turned upside down when a wayward teenage girl comes to live with them in the pilot.

Jennifer Lopez’s representative has denied the star’s dancer boyfriend Casper Smart is gay after rumors spread this week.

Entertainment website RadarOnline posted an ‘exclusive’ story about the celebrity couple, saying one of Lopez’s dancers had outed Smart.

Joshua Lee Ayers, a dancer at a Hollywood nightclub, was blasting Smart on his Twitter account.