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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
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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.”

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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.