Talk about a Guilt Trip!
Screen, stage, & song legend Barbra Streisand found herself in an unusual place recently — at odds with the LGBT community which usually adores her. Playwright Larry Kramer accused her of keeping the cinematic rights to his work, The Normal Heart, under lock and key for totally nefarious reasons!
He alleged that she wouldn’t allow a cinematic adaptation of his play to be made because she didn’t care to see a “distasteful” love scene play between members of the same sex!
Yelpin’ Yentils, we hope that’s not true!
Well, the 72-year-old superstar finally felt the need to make a statement and clarify her position, but we’re not positive it really helped!
She confessed:
“When I fell in love with Larry’s Kramer’s play, “The Normal Heart,” in 1986, I wanted to promote the idea of everyone’s right to love. Gay or straight! The gay community was suffering. A new disease was rearing its ugly head and no one was listening…. Larry was at the forefront of this battle and God love him, he’s still fighting. 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. It’s a matter of taste, whether they’re about heterosexuals or homosexuals. I was trying to reach a large audience and I wanted them to want these two men to get married. We’ve come a long way since then-gay marriage is now legal in 17 states, but there are still 33 more to go…”
Wow. We think her fans just wanted an apology, but instead she reminisced about The Way We Were! It almost sounds like Babs is saying she doesn’t want to show LGBT love on screen because 33 states aren’t ready and willing to see those images and hear that story.
We disagree!! We think the people are ready for same-sex love scenes! They’ll see it on screen and realize it’s just two human expressing their intimacy.
Do you think Barbra just dug herself into an even deeper hole??
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