She’s been a favorite of the gay community since her Yentil days. I don’t know a gay man who doesn’t love her. Every drag show I’ve ever been to (and I’ve been to a more than a couple) has featured a fabulous – though a little boxy – Babs impersonator.

So why did she refuse to star the final episode Will & Grace? Cause she’s pure evil. Like the fruits of the devil. My thing is this: You KNOW your gays love you. Why fight it? Cher doesn’t fight it. Bette Middler doesn’t fight it. Judy Garland doesn’t fight it – because she can’t.

What’s a real limp-wristed slap in the face is that she repeatedly refused to appear on the show. The producers knew it would just be the icing on the cake to have Barbara on the final episode after their 9 year run. Show creator Max Mutchnick explains, “We made one last attempt to get Barbra Streisand to come on the show as Karen’s sister, but there was no love there for us.”

The role of Karen’s sister, played by the fabulous bi-sexual and whiney voiced Megan Milally, was finally given to Broadway favorite Bernadette Peters. Who, quite frankly, would make a much more convincing sibling of Karen than Barbara would have anyway. Gay men everywhere are shaking a well manicured fist at you right now Babs!