Nope, she's not gay. That's what Hillary Clinton will make official in The Advocate, a gay magazine, according to a story in Friday's editions of The New York Daily News.

Sean Kennedy, an editor with the magazine, asked during an interview with Clinton, "How do you respond to the occasional rumor that you're a lesbian?"

"People say a lot of things about me, so I really don't pay any attention to it," Clinton said in response, the Daily News reported.

"It's not true, but it is something that I have no control over. People will say what they want to say," she said in an interview due to be published next week.

"I 100 percent believe she's a straight, heterosexual woman," Kennedy told the Daily News.

Clinton Calls Cheney 'Darth Vader'

Clinton drew laughs Wednesday during a question and answer event at Manhattan's Town Hall when she likened Vice President Dick Cheney to the masked evildoer in the "Star Wars" movies.

Referring to Cheney as "Darth Vader," she told listeners, "It will be refreshing, I think, to have a president who will actually utter the words 'global warming."'

She was answering questions posed by former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack in front of an audience of hundreds of donors. Onlookers paid at least $50 to attend the question-and-answer fundraiser, which also featured retired Gen. Wesley Clark.

Vilsack, briefly a contender for the Democratic nomination this year, has since dropped out and endorsed Clinton, who has been helping him whittle down a campaign debt of more than $400,000. Clinton representatives have said there was no connection between the fundraising and the endorsement.

Leads In California

In a new round of polling out of California, Clinton is leading among Democrats in the Golden State's presidential primary, while Rudy Giuliani is slightly ahead of his three major Republican rivals.

The new poll was sponsored by the Public Policy Institute of California.

Clinton has the support of 41 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, according to the survey, which was taken over a seven-day period following the Labor Day weekend and released Thursday. Her closest rival is Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who has 23 percent. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is at 14 percent.

The poll shows Republican voters to be more divided. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, is slightly ahead of the GOP pack, with 22 percent of likely primary voters saying they will support him.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is at 16 percent, as is former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, who only recently joined the race. Arizona Sen. John McCain is at 15 percent. The margin of error is plus or minus 5 percentage points.