Barbara Streisand Allegedly Finds Gay Sex ‘Very Distasteful’

For the second time today, an interview with The New York Times has exposed what appears to be a decades-old instance of celebrity homophobia. First, in a TimesTalks discussion, John Cameron Mitchell revealed how David Letterman refused to shake his hand after a performance of Hedwig and Angry Inch more than 15 years ago. Now, playwright Larry Kramer is charging Barbara Streisand with saying she finds gay sex “distasteful.”

Kramer has been trying to get his play The Normal Heart made into a movie since it first appeared Off-Broadway in 1985. The story of one activist’s fight during the rise of the HIV/AIDS crisis will finally make its film debut this Sunday in an HBO production starring Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts and others.

Streisand initially bought the film rights for the play all the way back in 1986, but struggled to get the financing the actually produce it. Eventually, Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee and American Horror Story, purchased the rights and produced the HBO version.

In a new interview with the Times’ Patrick Healy, Kramer reveals that Streisand found some of the subject matter in the story uncomfortable, despite her role as an icon in the gay community.

“I said, ‘I really think it’s important that after eons of watching men and women make love in the movies, it’s time to see two men do so,’” Kramer told Healy. “I bought her a book of very beautiful art pictures of two men making love, and she found it very distasteful.”

In a statement responding to Kramer’s charge, Streisand said she decided to option the play “to promote the idea of everyone’s right to love. Gay or straight!”

“Larry was at the forefront of this battle and, God love him, he’s still fighting,” she said. “But there’s no need to fight me by misrepresenting my feelings. As a filmmaker, I have always looked for new and exciting ways to do love scenes, whether they’re about heterosexuals or homosexuals. It’s a matter of taste, not gender.”

Unlike Streisand, Murphy decided to use his own money to finance the film, something Kramer said “shows how much he wanted to do this, and how tacky it sort of is that Barbra never would think of something like that.”

Read the full article, which will appear in this Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section of the paper at nytimes.com.

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STREISAND WAR WITH GAY SON
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Published on: April 3, 2012
by Patricia Shipp, NATIONAL ENQUIRER
Photography by: Getty Images Entertainment
NationalEnquirer.com
BARBRA STREISAND turns ponderous proboscis up at her only child because he refuses to stop his gay-party lifestyle, settle down and make her a grandmother.

Although Barbra, 69, has never taken issue with the fact that her son Jason Gould, 45, is a homosexual, she’s never been able to put up with his “promiscuous” ways and hasn’t talked to him in more than a year, say sources.

Jason – Barbra’s son with “M*A*S*H*” star Elliott Gould, her first husband – is HIV-positive and has a reputation as a Casanova in New York City’s gay community, according to the sources.

“It’s terribly sad,” an insider revealed. “There’s a tremendous strain in their relationship and it’s because they’re both so similar – stubborn and pigheaded.

“Jason has a reputation as quite the Romeo. He dates a lot of different guys and is always on the lookout for a new conquest.

“Barbra is terrified that he’s neglecting his health and focusing too much attention on his social life.

“She wants him to fall in love with a nice boy and settle down. But Jason says that’s just not in the cards.”

When Barbra first heard rumors last year that Jason was involved in relationships with multiple men and engaging in public displays of affection, she blew up.

“She screamed, ‘I don’t want to hear it!’ whenever anyone brought up Jason’s love life,” the insider said.

“At that point she called Jason and told him he needed to settle down with one guy and to quit all the playing around – and if he was going to be irresponsible with his life then she was going to wash her hands of him.

“But Jason takes good care of himself and feels that his sex life is his own business.

“He told his mother in no uncertain terms to take her nose out of his business – and she hasn’t talked to him since.”

The “Funny Girl” singer is doubly devastated by Jason since he told her he wasn’t interested in adopting a child or hiring a surrogate in order to be a father.

“Barbra is almost 70 and she wants a grandchild,” the source noted. “She’s upset with Jason for denying her that pleasure.”

For now, neither is willing to budge.

“Barbra says she’s not going to call Jason until he changes what she calls a dangerous lifestyle,” added the source. “And Jason won’t call Barbra until she can learn to mind her own business.”

Barbara Streisand Allegedly Finds Gay Sex ‘Very Distasteful’

So does the Jewish GOD; if the following is true...

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Doonesbury Cartoon for Feb/08/2013

Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...

The Health Risks of gay sex.

Gossip
BABS GOT STRAIGHT TALK ON SON BEING GAY
BY GEORGE RUSH , & JOANNA , MOLLOY BAIRD , JONES NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, April 21, 1997, 12:00 AM A A A
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It was Barbra Streisand’s then-boyfriend Jon Peters who first told her that her son, Jason, was gay, according to a new biography of the singer. Peters took Arthur Laurents, author of “The Way We Were,” out for a walk on Streisand’s ranch and asked the writer to break the news to her. “About what?

” Laurents inquired. “The kid’s gay,” Laurents recalls Peters saying. “She should face it now.

” “Jason was only 12,” Laurents tells biographer Anne Edwards in “It Only Happens Once” (Little, Brown). “I said, `How do you know?

’ “ “He’s interested in antiques,” answered the supermacho haircutter-turned-producer. When Jason Gould, 32, did come out of the closet several years later, Streisand and his father, Elliott Gould, had a difficult time dealing with it, Edwards claims. “I think Jason’s being gay is deeply psychological,” Gould pere said. “It’s a result of conditioning, I think. I blame myself for not being a more visible father.

” But then he goes on to “blame” antique-collecting Streisand, too. “Barbra won custody when we were divorced. I left him in that environment without me. I think he was affected by not having love at a vital stage of his life . . . Barbra was consumed with her business and career and I just wasn’t there.

” Streisand and Jason fortified their relationship when she directed him in “Prince of Tides” though in one scene she slipped and shouted, “Walk like a man!

” Gay activist Larry Kramer told Edwards he believed Streisand dallied with producing his play “The Normal Heart” because of her son. Kramer said she tried to “educate herself about homosexuality” by asking friends “what made people gay. I gave her a pretty graphic book about gay sex and I’m sure it disturbed her.

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