• You really do learn something new everyday. Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, whose work we've never read, apparently likes ladies. She liked a woman so much, in fact, she married one! Cornwell opens up to UK's Telegraph about her wife, Dr. Staci Gruber:

I finally feel rooted somewhere. I feel a sense of responsibility and stability that I didn't have before.
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I've never been a soapbox person for gay rights, but now I'm in a same-sex marriage I tend to be more open, because I am outraged that it should be illegal in other states.

Looking at this picture really puts things in perspective.

• Refinery 29 gets behind our imaginary main squeeze, Thom Browne.

• Barack, Babs, Oprah and Hillary get into a campaign menage-a-quatre.

• Legendary lobbyist Aubrey Sarvis goes after Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

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With the New Jersey Supreme Court's affirmation of gay "marriage," we felt the uncontrollable urge to dance around like complete homo-buffoons.

The only problem was that we couldn't decide what song best fit our celebratory mood. Luckily we found ourselves paying a visit to our friends at Gayz of Our Lives (you know, the fashion mavens who brought us the top ten Freaky Fashion Trends for The Totally Frightful Issue).

While there, we found this link to DJ Revolucian's myspace page where you can find the dance remix of Barbara Streisand's recent "Shut The Fuck Up" flare up.

If there's a better song to dance to while telling homo-haters to "shut the fuck up" and let gays marry, we haven't heard it. Enjoy!

If you're a Barbra Streisand fan, you're probably already on her mailing list — and the mailing list for every concert ticket opportunity. A Queerty reader who happens to be a subscriber sent along this missive from Babs, notifying him of a special opportunity: to snag advance sale tickets to see Streisand at San Jose's HP Pavilion. And they're a steal: just $750!

Hell, we paid $350 for Madonna and nearly shit ourselves. Perhaps you can't top $750 (or can you?), but let's have at it: What's the most outrageous price you've paid for concert tickets? And did you regret it?

After the jump, the full Barbra ticket notice.

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Trying to inject a little skankiness into a new duets record, Barbra Streisand is courting Christina Aguilera to sing with her on a track. Christina is practically peeing herself, claiming, "She's my idol and I admire everything she does with her career."

Dogged by rumors that she chose Xtina for her singing talent, Barbra put them to rest by informing the public that she plans to also sing a duet with Antonio Banderas "just because he has a cute butt"*.

*not an actual quote

Barbra Courts Christina [SkyOne]

We always thought Ryan O'Neal was kind of sexy, and the new unofficial biography of Barbra Streisand says she slept with him! Perhaps it even happened while they were filming What's Up, Doc?. She was so cute and quirky in that movie, no man could resist her.

But the book, titled Barbra: The Way She Is, doesn't stop there. It lists countless other high-profile conquests, including Warren Beatty, Steve McQueen, Kris Kristofferson, Don Johnson, Jon Voight, Elliott Gould, Andre Agassi, Richard Gere, Omar Sharif, Liam Neeson and Peter Jennings. Of course Barbra says it is all lies.

This is the statement posted in the "Truth Alerts" section of her website:

Does the truth matter these days? Normally, I would not dignify vicious, mean-spirited mythology masquerading as biography. But it seems that this latest rehashing of other unauthorized biographies is getting a lot of attention. Who is the person described in this book? Certainly not anyone I know. This stereotypic image bears very little resemblance to me or anything about me.

We love that she has a "Truth Alerts" section alongside many political diatribes about President Bush and the Republican party on her Sony Music-hosted website. She is definitely getting cantankerous with age.

Babra Streisand: Truth Alerts [Official Site]
Unauthorized Biography Irks Barbra Streisand [Starpulse]

In an upcoming Newsweek interview Liza Minnelli says she isn't sure how she obtained gay icon status, but perhaps it has something to do with her, shall we say, unconventional looks:

“I think probably Barbra (Streisand) and maybe even Cher and myself in school felt like outcasts because we didn’t have standard looks…Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.”

Well gosh, perhaps it also has something to do with her domination of 1970's musical theater in gay-themed shows Cabaret and Chicago (if you haven't rented Cabaret yet, you must), her short-but-amicable marriage to super-gay Peter Allen, her raging drug habit fueled by regular appearances at Studio 54, and her disasterous marriage to gross Botox posterboy David Gest. And wasn't she the daughter of Judy Garland, or someone like that?…

She also says in a contest between herself, Cher and Streisand to determine who’s the No. 1 gay icon, Cher would win. We say it's all a wash.

Liza Minnelli Loves Her Gay Fans [MSNBC]

We don’t know that every farmed animal is treated as badly as those seen in Martha Stewart’s PETA flick; but that even one animal should be skinned alive and then left to Fendi for itself is one too many. Martha was not the first gay-icon diva to get wise to fur madness; go here to see a progression of Barbra Streisand’s coats, the earlier models from real, presumably tortured animals, the last, pictured here, a specimen of faux finery.

We aren’t quite sure what to tell you about leather shoes, clothes and accessories. The softer the leather, the younger the animal exploited to procure it. The very softest leather is obtained from the fetuses of slaughtered animals. Alligator, crocodile, ostrich, python, and cobra are all skinned for the luxury market, and if there’s anything Queerty doesn’t want seen treated inhumanely, it’s snakes.

You want to be especially careful what you’re killing these days because of the trend towards trans-speciesism. But you don’t necessarily want to go overboard, advocating violence against dairy farmers. For a gay old time, you could order a pair of fake fur handcuffs.

• The new issue of HX is all about underwear. We are all about the cover models in their underwear.

• Barbra Streisand was molested by the Portland leader of the Christian Coalition. Oh, wait. The photo and the story do not go together. Our bad.

• We are giving away tickets to Sock Puppet Showgirls here in NYC. Simply write a Showgirls inspired haiku and send it over.

• We spoke of Madonna earlier. This is why we love her. Best Madonna clip ever.

• Planet Out has listed America’s top lesbian cities. The criteria for choosing these cities we believe was pretty easy. They looked at the Indigo Girls’ last tour stops.