Streisand 'knew' son was gay - The Globe and Mail

Contents:

• STREISAND 'KNEW' SON WAS GAY
• BARBRA STREISAND’S SON JASON GOULD TALKS NEW ALBUM & DATG WH A GAY IN FOR A MOTHER
• IS ELLTT GOULD GAY?
• IS ELLTT GOULD GAY

STREISAND 'KNEW' SON WAS GAY

"I sort of like beg out of the spotlight, " adms the sgle star, who me out as gay to his parents the '80s. Gould me out to his parents as gay the 1980s. He add, "I never was hidg the fact that I was gay.

BARBRA STREISAND’S SON JASON GOULD TALKS NEW ALBUM & DATG WH A GAY IN FOR A MOTHER

Is Elltt Gould Gay? Some rmatn may no longer be Streisand's son says his mother was not surprised when he told her he was gay. Insi Out, where Gould plays the gay son of two famo parents who jos a support group for children of celebri.

Bailey is a one-sid wrer's creatn (and oddly, for a movie filled wh so many liberal stanc, Bailey--like many of the other characters--is anti-female and homophobic).

I believe that the le Elt Gould when he's had enough of the profsor's ments about Fzgerald's homosexualy is that y uld be possible that he was a homosexual but that sure would be news to Sheila Graham (not Zelda) wh whom he had an apparently sndalo affair when he was Hollywood tryg to make money.

IS ELLTT GOULD GAY?

As Harry tri to make his pots, the profsors rail him on a tangent that Fzgerald may have been gay. No matter which book he referenc, one of the ivory tower nizens will always relate to Fzgerald's alleged homosexualy.

When Harry fends his pots about `Tenr is the Night, ' one prof enth, `Ah, y, perfect, don't you see that the Dick Diver Character was the maniftatn of Fzgerald's reprsed latent homosexual driv?

Stt Fzgerald Was A Homosexual!!

IS ELLTT GOULD GAY

Disturbgly homophobic and paternalistic. Even for s perd, I found this film's attus to women and gay men disturbg and this took away om my appreciatn of as a well-ma film which, many ways, has s heart the right place.

Then there is a crack early on about Arizona beg a good place to live bee of s low rate of homosexualy. And Nick tri to get out of the draft by pretendg to be a stereotypilly effemate gay man, wh Gould repeatedly g the 'F' word to scribe him.

I spect the wrers jt wanted the amic to say somethg absurd but the choice they ma suggts that there is somethg herently wrong beg gay and/or that amia has been taken over by gay men phg their "homosexual agenda". Perhaps the stunts' rights mpaigns of this time were paternalistic and homophobic and this film jt reflects that, but I hope at least some of the people at that time had a more progrsive way of lookg at the world.