Queen Latifah took the stage at this year’s Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival in the Southern California city Saturday (May 19), and her highness was happy to be in the presence of “her people,” according to EUR Web. Inquiries into her sexual preference have long followed Latifah, and headlining the event— now in its 29th year—may have marked a coming-out of sorts for the mogul… Continue

Suelyn wasn’t the only one feeling the love in Barbados. Queen Latifah and Eboni Nichols were also spotted on the beach enjoying the sand and surf.

Have a look at the gal pals gallivanting on their island vacay when you continue.

Last night, the cast of “A Joyful Noise” hit the Chinese Theater in L.A. for the big premiere of the feel-good film that opens nationwide this Friday January 13th. Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton had the press eating out of their hands, but it was Paula Patton that got OUR attention! Robin Thicke’s bi-racial banger wife was her usual fabulous self in a short lil’ black number that had them legs on full blast!

Flip the page to peep the entire gallery of pics from the event!

Dana Owens is a bigger, beautiful, black woman, and she plans on making a lot of money because of it…

Her clothing line for HSN is selling like crazy, but Queen Latifah says finding clothes as a plus-size woman was at one time a constant struggle.

“A lot of manufacturers don’t respect the curvaceous woman,” she laments in the January issue of ESSENCE. “They don’t respect our dollar or our shape.” Thankfully, she’s found an understanding vendor in HSN. “[It's] been such a great partnership,” she says. “I’m happy to make women’s clothing I really like.”

In August, Latifah told PEOPLE she was designing for real women who want affordable, wearable fashion. “It’s really something you can incorporate into your existing wardrobe,” she said of the tops, jackets, jeans and handbags in the Queen Collection. “I mean these are things that are really beautiful, but they’re very wearable. We’re really trying to make sure that they have the best fabrics possible, that it feels good on the body. I’m a Pisces, I’m sensitive; I like things to feel good on my skin.”

Designed for women sizes 2 to 24, the collection is everything the actress wants: “stylish clothes that fit my body, and make me look good and feel good about myself,” she shared. “I wanted to offer basically the same things that I have the opportunity to have.”

We ain’t even mad at ‘Tifah, and we’re sure that there are lots of sexy, curvy women who appreciate her also.

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Queen Latifah was spied having quite a nice time in Miami this weekend with a woman who looked a heck of a lot like her U.S. Open date and rumored girlfriend Eboni Nichols. The ladies grabbed drinks with friends before hitting up the beach.

Get it Dana!

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The star power was definitely in the building last night for a good, charitable cause.

Alicia Keys rounded up some of her highest profile, A-List celebrity friends to join her in a fundraiser dinner/auction to drop some stacks to help bring “consciousness and awareness” to the HIV/AIDS epidemic affecting the world.

Her charm and talent helped the singer raise $401,500 through auctions at her Black Ball event, which celebrates Keep a Child Alive, her 8-year-old organization aiding HIV/AIDS victims in Africa and India.

A dinner party with Edward Norton and Naomi Watts went for $25,000 and a trip to Paris Fashion Week to see shows by Givenchy sold for $15,000. The top bid was a lifetime membership to all Donald Trump golf properties, selling at $180,000.

Keys was joined onstage by Usher, Richie Sambora, Norah Jones, Gary Clark, Jr., and others at the event Thursday night at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. She closed the night with Black Eyed Peas’ leader will.i.am, singing Fergie’s verse on the hit “I Gotta Feeling,” which had Keys’ mom and younger brother dancing happily onstage.

The event honored the charity’s commitment to India, showing videos of children in the country battling with HIV/AIDS, and being kicked out of their homes as a result.

“We all deserve a chance at life,” Keys said in an interview on the red carpet. “Tonight really goes to the people. It really goes to the people that we serve, so that they can have the medicine to live.”

Sounds like the night and fundraiser was a huge success.

Flip the script to peep the pics from the festivities.