Posted on 05/21/2014 5:15:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
And watch a trailer for The Normal Heart below, via HBO:
If they boycott her, she will cave and offer a groveling (and fake) apology.
How’d she know?
In other words the concept of homosexuality is more acceptable than the reality to Babs.
We do not have to say distasteful.
How about saying that practicing homosexuals are at war with their very own, unchangeable
chromosomes given them by God. Or nature.
No matter how onectried to rationalize, we cannot flim flam our own nature.
I would not use tasteful to describe one man putting his penis in another mans anus. But hey that’s just me.
I think most gay icons, like Babs and Cher, are deep down disgusted with it, but that is their fan base, so they have to play along.
The are moving to the next level. First it was acceptance of gays. Now it will become acceptance of gay’s “sexual practices” themselves. We are now supposed to be conditioned to condone the gay sex act itself. Disgusting.
Off with her head!
Scary-Vision!
Mark
All because of some gay snit, demanding money to make yet another movie to make himself feel ‘special,’ lacks the basic sensitivity to understand that while some hetero men may occasionally enjoy viewing lesbian sex (as part of a fantasy including themselves), hetero women don't relate to themselves as being part of the picture of gay porn (and neither do the gays) and so find viewing gay porn uninteresting and objectionable.
Liberals never want to use their own money. They want everyone else to finance their ideas. And why did she have trouble getting the funding from others? I would think this would be right up Hollywood’s alley.
yup, South Park ripped that FUGLY skank but good
Of course they do. Vocal support of the Gay Mafia is merely a career builder and survival technique.
Barbara Streisand Allegedly Finds Gay Sex ‘Very Distasteful’
Well, then maybe she will stop performing it if she finds it very distasteful or maybe she could find a more “tasteful” queer to perform it with.
The thought of two dudes “doing it” makes me want to vomit. Put me down as a homophobe, please.
Gay Icon Finds Gay Sex "Very Distasteful".
LMAO!!!!
Here is the first victim of the gaystapo, who was driven out of her livelihood, ridiculed by decadent Hollywood and had to declare bankruptcy: Anita Bryant. Scroll to the last section to read the triumphalist denigration of this pioneering defender of the natural family.
This is going to crush the Gay Community, who slobber all over this yenta. I think it would only be worse if maybe it was revealed that Judy Garland was opposed to gay sex as well.
When gays are around straight people, they act completely different than when they are around strictly other gays....Then they become very nasty people.
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