Lori Duron

When the staff found out a local gender non-conforming boy was being relentlessly bullied, they pulled out the stops to save him.

A mother writes about how sad her son was when his best friend said, “My family doesn’t hang out with gay people.”

For Lori Duron, parenting her younger son C.J. is etched in time as B.B. and A.B. — before Barbie and after Barbie. The 6½-year-old discovered the doll at the back of his mother’s closet about four years ago, and she’s barely left his clutches since.