Despite her status as a gay icon, Barbra Streisand reportedly took a dig at the homosexual community, according to playwright Larry Kramer.

Kramer — who worked closely with the legendary entertainer in trying to bring his play The Normal Heart to film after she bought the right to the HIV/Aids-related play in 1986 — told the NY Times that the "The Way We Were” singer was put off by pictures of gay men making love to one another as he tried to persuade her to include a same sex love scene in a potential film.

“I bought her a book of very beautiful art pictures of two men making love, and she found it very distasteful,” Kramer recalled.

The 72-year-old star of The Prince Of Tides — whose son Jason Gould is openly gay — responded in saying her predilection toward the material was a “matter of taste, not gender.

“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,” she said. “As a filmmaker, I have always looked for new and exciting ways to do love scenes, whether they’re about heterosexuals or homosexuals.”