It took almost 30 years for Larry Kramer's acclaimed play The Normal Heart to be adapted to a movie—Ryan Murphy's take on Kramer's tobgraphil acunt of the early days of AIDS will premiere Sunday on HBO. In a rare terview wh the New York Tim, the now ail former Gay Men's Health Crisis/ACT UP activist Kramer explaed his versn of why Barbra Streisand's adaptatn never got off the ground: She didn't want to portray gay men fuckg.
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- ROSS MATHEWS: I REALIZED I WAS GAY WH BARBRA STREISAND & MORE FROM 'MAN UP!'
- BARBRA STREISAND’S ONLY SON FELT UNFORTABLE AFTER HE DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY TO HIS MOM
- STREISAND SPEAKS OUT ON GAY MARRIAGE
- BARBRA STREISAND IS THE MASTERMD BEHD A GAY, LIBERAL CONSPIRACY TO MAKE US BELIEVE CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL
- BARBRA STREISAND TALKS GAY IN STAT & CALLS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
- GAY IN BARBRA STREISAND FDS GAY SEX DISTASTEFUL, SAYS LARRY KRAMER
ROSS MATHEWS: I REALIZED I WAS GAY WH BARBRA STREISAND & MORE FROM 'MAN UP!'
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BARBRA STREISAND’S ONLY SON FELT UNFORTABLE AFTER HE DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY TO HIS MOM
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Not only did they reveal to the world that the then-actor was gay, they also claimed he'd got married to another man. I never was hidg the fact that I was gay. Gould also said the story impacted his reer: "I did get a lot of attentn for 'The Prce of Tis, ' but I thk wh (the tabloid exposure) gog on at the same time, sudnly the dtry knew I was gay.
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STREISAND SPEAKS OUT ON GAY MARRIAGE
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BARBRA STREISAND IS THE MASTERMD BEHD A GAY, LIBERAL CONSPIRACY TO MAKE US BELIEVE CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL
As Playbill reunted, she kickstarted her glterg reer at The Ln, one of Greenwich Village's most popular gay jots, at the turn of the 1960s and has sce bee a vol advote for LGBTQ rights, too (per Today).
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BARBRA STREISAND TALKS GAY IN STAT & CALLS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
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At the time when Gould me out as gay, his mother was already nsired one of the biggt gay ins the world. Barbra Streisand is weighg on the gay marriage outspoken diva was honored by the Human Rights Commissn Los Angel this week, where she livered a fiery pro-gay, anti-Bh speech. Well, I say, no way, ” Streisand told the crowd of 1, 700 power gays and lbians.
“Homophobia is a disease which sperately needs to be cured, ” she told The Advote 1999. ”She has been a supportive mother to her gay son, Jason Gould. In a rare terview wh the New York Tim, the now ail former Gay Men's Health Crisis/ACT UP activist Kramer explaed his versn of why Barbra Streisand's adaptatn never got off the ground: She didn't want to portray gay men fuckg.
GAY IN BARBRA STREISAND FDS GAY SEX DISTASTEFUL, SAYS LARRY KRAMER
"The problems wh her is that she didn't know what to do wh , and she also was really unfortable wh the subject of gay sex, " Kramer told the Tim. As a filmmaker, I have always looked for new and excg ways to do love scen, whether they're about heterosexuals or homosexuals. It's a matter of taste, not 's probably for the bt that the nice lady didn't end up makg the gay sex all pretty.