Balancing Act: 'People are afraid of what they don't understand': 7th-grader is bringing a Pride parade to suburbia
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. - Sixth grade was a big year for Molly Pinta.
She started a gay-straight alliance at her Buffalo Grove middle school, Twin Groves. She came out to her family and, within the space of the newly launched gay-straight alliance, to her peers.
At the end of the school year, she and her parents attended the Aurora Pride Parade. She carried a sign that said she'd
