By Nancy Ford Dear Santa, How the heck are you? Long time no write, right? I know, I know. It seems the only time I come to you is when I want or need something. It’s not like I don’t think of you often; I do. It’s just that, you know, when I was a

By Nancy Ford Happy holidays, and hearty ho-ho-ho to you and yours! What is it about this time of year that makes us — well, OK, me — giddier than a four-year-old on Santa’s lap? As if by genetic, ingrained habit, moments after the last the last carved Halloween pumpkin head implodes upon itself, my

By Nancy Ford “I am humbled beyond words that the voters of the 1st Congressional District placed their trust in me today. Voters in New Hampshire and all across the country are delivering a strong message that when America is faced with a challenge, we don’t give up. We don’t give in to fear or

By Nancy Ford Get this: “What a World” is 30 years old. Thirty years!? What a whirl! Many of you have asked how I began writing this column three decades ago, when I was a mere five-year-old child. Ahem. Well… In the beginning, as the earth’s crust was cooling and long before the Internet changed

By Nancy Ford  “It is not my responsibility to determine whether Mr. Kavanaugh deserves to sit on the Supreme Court. My responsibility is to tell you the truth.… Thousands and thousands of people who have had their lives dramatically altered by sexual violence have reached out to share their experience and have thanked me for

By Nancy Ford Ah, October. Month of falling leaves and falling temperatures (hopefully), all culminating in Halloween, the High Holy Day of self-respecting and glitter loving queers everywhere. But let’s start with a bit of a history lesson, shall we? October is also the month LGBTQs and our supportive friends celebrate National LGBT History Month.

By Nancy Ford I’ve been a Roseanne fan for a long, long time — ever since her breakthrough, ball-busting appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1985. Roseanne’s take-me-as-I-am, take-no-prisoners performance style was the wind beneath my fledging stand-up comic’s wings. Apparently I wasn’t alone in my fandom. Quicker than you can say

By Nancy Ford “We believe in self-sufficient families, founded on the traditional marriage of a natural man and a natural woman … the official position of the Texas schools with respect to transgenderism is that there are only two genders: male and female…. We oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity…. We believe there should

By Nancy Ford Because we same gender-loving folks were denied the right to marry each other for far too long, our relationships sometimes didn’t last as long as we original intended. Certainly not always, but too often, “forever,” in gay couple years, translated to three years, maybe a few more if we were lucky. My

By Nancy Ford “She is a 20-year-old breeding age female and we need her.” Much as it sounds like it could be, that cringe-worthy quote did not come from the script of The Handmaid’s Tale or fall out of the mouth of Vice President Mike Pence. That statement is attributed to Deborah Giles, research scientist