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"  Blonde bombshell Beyonc\u00E9 covers the &amp;quot;Power issue&amp;quot; of Out magazine. She looks fabulous. She emailed back and forth with Out&amp;#039;s editor-in-chief, discussing the impact of her latest album and its empowering messages: &amp;quot;There is unbelievable power in ownership, and women should own their sexuality,&amp;quot; she says, before continuing: &amp;quot;There is a double standard when it comes to sexuality that still persists. Men are free and women are not. That is crazy. The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist\u2014whatever you want to be\u2014and still be a sexual being. It&amp;#039;s not mutually exclusive.&amp;quot; She also says she recorded &amp;quot;XO&amp;quot; with a really bad sinus infection, because even then, she&amp;#039;s going to sound amazing. Out also talked with members of her entourage, one of whom describes herself as &amp;quot;the fourth member of Destiny&amp;#039;s Child&amp;quot; (that&amp;#039;s a shady thing to say considering that Destiny&amp;#039;s Child, in all its different interations, has included six different singers). Her team all shared anecdotes confirming Queen B&amp;#039;s majesty, and some are too good not to share. Like the one involving a snake called Fendi, and this one:  &amp;quot;There is Ed Burke, visual director, who had never heard of Beyonc\u00E9 when he met her 10 years ago, responding to a request from a friend to shoot her for a day. He spent the next seven years trailing her around the world with a camera. In Egypt, he and Beyonc\u00E9 scaled a pyramid together as the rest of their group gave up or fell back. &amp;#039;It smelled like urine because there are no bathrooms up there,&amp;#039; he recalls. &amp;#039;She looked like Mother Teresa, wearing this white dress and a head wrap, and when we got to the top she sang Donny Hathaway&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;A Song for You.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Once you get past the shock at someone, even a decade back, not knowing who Beyonc\u00E9 was, it&amp;#039;s a wonderful story. Also, it really does suggest that Egyptian archaeologist/tour guide was just being sassy when he called her a diva last year, because I mean, she was embodying saintly realness on the day. Follow Alex on  Twitter. Photo credit: courtesy of Out magazine "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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