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The Olympic trials of Mike Pence
By Nancy Ford It’s hard to believe it’s already been four years since the last time the world’s top athletes gathered to compete in the Olympics in Sochi in Russia.
WHAT A WORLD
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The Adorable Queer Valentines Edition
By Nancy Ford “It was so much more meaningful in the moment for me than I predicted, and it’s been resonantly much more meaningful than for me afterward than I ever saw coming,â€Â he said. “You know, I
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Guess who’s coming to dinner
By Nancy Ford Call me anti-social, but I’ve never enjoyed big, formal fundraising dinners. They generally strike me as pretentious, wasteful and—let’s face it— we never really know where all
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People Will Talk: The 2017 Silver Lining Edition
By Nancy Ford JANUARY “We firmly declare that LGBTQIA Rights are Human Rights and that it is our obligation to uplift, expand and protect the rights of our gay, lesbian,
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‘What a World’ Women of the Year Awards
By Nancy Ford Here’s to the fearless girls One of my favorite movies is Woman of the Year. A Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy joint, it’s a rom com about a professional
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People Will Talk: The International Edition
By Nancy Ford “I never went out in the evening thinking, ‘Now I must get some sex,’ which nowadays most people do. I went out saying, ‘I must be my
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A (legal) matter of Pride
By Nancy Ford As Chechnya rounds up queers into detention camps, Isis beheads and throws gay men from rooftops, and yet another mass shooting right here in the good ol’
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Sealed with a gift
By Nancy Ford About that speech that our president delivered to those super-duper, MAGA-humping, Bible and Trump-thumping attendees of the Values Voter Summit. Yes, by now, this is old news;
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Justice for Marsha and Reina
By Nancy Ford The prevailing theme throughout The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is “Justice for Marsha.†The new film recently released on Netflix chronicles the 1992 death
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People Will Talk: The coming out edition
By Nancy Ford “I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I
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Trump isn’t the only one with a Twitter problem
By Nancy Ford I have a problem and I need your help. Much as I wish I could, I can’t stop thinking about U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and his alleged
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People Will Talk: The ABH Edition (anything but Harvey)
By Nancy Ford “‘We’re less threatening, I think,’ Annise Parker, the mayor of Houston from 2010 to 2016, told me in a recent telephone interview. She said lesbians don’t deal