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Not My Kind of Queen: Well, Spain may have gay marriage rights, but that doesn't mean its leaders know how to keep their royal feet out of their royal mouths: In a new authorized biography of Queen Sofa, she is quoted as saying that she respects people’s different sexual orientations but does not understand why "they should feel proud to be gay." "That they get up on floats and parade in the streets? If all of us who are not gay were to parade in the streets, we’d halt the traffic in every city," she says. She adds that while gay people had a right to unions with one another, they should not call them marriages.

Prop 8: The California attorney general asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to review the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the voter initiative passed two weeks ago that bans same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, Gov. Schwarzenegger said he will not petition the court about it despite making statements he believes the court should declare the measure illegal.

Out Standing: Matt has the beautiful people highlights from the OUT 100 issue.

Charge It, Mary: A new study shows that while many American households cut spending and shift consumer priorities to cope with tough, new economic realities, marked differences in responses based on gender and sexual orientation exist, frequently with lesbian adults feeling more vulnerable when compared to other populations, while gay men appear less likely to cut back discretionary spending compared with their heterosexual counterparts.

American Bandstand 2.0: I don't think I ever realized how significant "TRL" was until I started to see all of the coverage its signoff was getting. (Page 1 presence on The New York Times???) I happened to be in Times Square last night and captured the scene around 1 a.m., where hundreds of thousands of young girls had once stood screaming for their favorite boy band member or Britney. Truly the end of an era, or so I'm told.

Move Over, Tiffany: "Twilight" cutie Robert Pattinson rules the mall.

Murder in Memphis: LGBT civil rights groups are calling for an independent investigation into the shooting death of a transwoman who previously had been a victim of police brutality.

Sound Familiar? Bush and Cheney must be tearing up right now. Their baby has grown up to be just like them: It's been reported that the government of Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring Western standards of accountability to the notoriously opaque and graft-ridden bureaucracy here. ($13 billion in reconstruction funds from the United States had been lost to fraud, embezzlement, theft and waste by Iraqi government officials.) Some reports say as many as 17 of the 30 inspectors general have been dismissed, provoking accusations that al-Maliki, who has never been an advocate of having his government’s inner workings scrutinized, might leave the posts vacant or stack them with supporters of his party, Dawa. One dismissed official's investigations kept finding embarrassing information about al-Maliki's government, so they turned around and filed corruption charges against him, which led him to seek asylum in the U.S.