In her first major cover appearance since the release of her self-titled album in December, Beyoncé appears in OUT Magazine.

The Queen Bey channels her inner Monroe in the May 2014 issue of OUT, one of the world’s biggest gay interest magazines. For all those who have listened to Bey’s latest offering, it’s easy to tell that she has kicked her sexiness into overdrive with songs like Drunk In Love and Partition.  She talks to OUT about how she wants her music to “open up a conversation” about women and their sexuality.

“There is unbelievable power in ownership, and women should own their sexuality. There is a double standard when it comes to sexuality that still persists,” she explained to OUT.

“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—whatever you want to be—and still be a sexual being. It’s not mutually exclusive.”

You tell ’em, Bey!

And here’s Drunk In Love, just because…