Barbra Streisand will be singing at this year's Academy Awards.

The Oscars, being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, will feature a tribute to movie musicals.

They said in a statement to ABC News Wednesday (30 January): 'In an evening that celebrates the artistry of movies and music, how could the telecast be complete without Barbra Streisand? We are honored that she has agreed to do a very special performance.'

A group of gay men went to a theater in Lafayette, Louisiana on Sunday night to see The Guilt Trip, a new comedy starring gay icon Barbra Streisand.

The movie hadn't even started when trouble began.

After decades of development, The Normal Heart will begin shooting in New York City later this year to air on HBO in 2014 with Ryan Murphy as its director, the network announced Friday (4 January).

The film is written by Larry Kramer who also wrote the largely autobiographical Tony Award-winning play on which it is based. It is about the rise of the AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984.

Audiences at Barbra Streisand's recently-concluded Back to Brooklyn concert tour were treated to something that had never been by the public before: a duet between Streisand and her son, Jason Gould.

Gould, 45, joined his mother on How Deep Is the Ocean and revealed to the world an impressive singing voice that he had previously not shared with the public.

'It was the most joyous time with my son ever, ever, ever,' Streisand says in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly in an interview to promote her new film The Guilt Trip.

Barbra Streisand touts US President Barack Obama's record on LGBT issues in a campaign video for the National Jewish Democratic Council on Friday (2 November).

Streisand, currently in the middle of her Back to Brooklyn concert tour, said of Obama: 'He has done more for the LGBT community than any president before him, repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell and signing the Matthew Shepard Hates Crimes Act into law.'

'In this good man, we have a president we can trust,' she added.

Barbra Streisand has done some pretty dazzling duets in her time with the likes of Judy Garland, Neil Diamond, Donna Summer, Tony Bennett and Celine Dion, among others.

But her latest duet partner is someone much closer to her heart: son Jason Gould who has been joining the singing icon for a duet as part of her current Back to Brooklyn tour.

Video has surfaced on Youtube (see below) of mother and son performing How Deep is the Ocean last week in Philadelphia.

After the duet, Streisand said: “Is that unbelievable? It’s just just because I’m his mom!”

Barbra Streisand directed her son, Jason Gould, in the 1991 film The Prince of Tides and now is planning another professional collaboration with him.

Streisand tells Katie Couric in an interview to air Tuesday (25 September) that she is working on a new album of duets and one of her singing partner will be her only child who was born during her marriage to Elliot Gould.

Busy Ryan Murphy, the force behind TV's Glee, The New Normal and American Horror Story, has yet another project that he's working on these days: the long-awaited film version of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart.

He's got nothing but admiration for the outspoken Kramer who wrote the largely autobiographical plays about the rise of the AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984.

Barbra Streisand is set to release an album of previously unreleased material from her personal vault next month.

The 11-track album, titled Release Me, will be available on vinyl from 25 September and on CD on 9 October and will feature tracks from right across the 70-year-old’s career from 1963 to the present day.

In a press release, a spokesperson said: 'Many of the sessions for these albums yielded extra recordings, which weren’t included on the albums they were intended for.'

Just a month after her 95th birthday,  legendary comic Phyllis Diller died on Monday (20 August) at home in Los Angeles surrounded by her family.

Diller began working as a stand-up comic in the 1950s and is credited with paving the way for the likes of Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr and Margaret Cho, among others.

Diller had a gay following from the beginning.

'My first audience were gay people because they have a great sense of humor,' she once said. 'They love comedy and they love to laugh. How do you think they got the word gay put on them?'

Barbra Streisand said Thursday that she would be making her final statement in her long-running war of words with playwright Larry Kramer over turning his play The Normal Heart into a feature film.

Kramer re-opened the feud this week by making public a recent email exchange between he and Streisand. He had sent her favorable reviews of the production of the Tony Award-winning play which just opened in Washington DC. and she replied with an email which said: 'Why make me sad that I’m not directing your wonderful play?'

It was in 1979 when Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand - both at the very height of their legendary recording careers - joined forces on the number one hit No More Tears (Enough is Enough).

Streisand released a statement Thursday (17 May) expressing her shock over the death of Summer who had died earlier in the day from cancer at the age of 63.