It’s from a menswear designer.

An Orange County family has drawn attention from two renowned actors after posting a photo on a parenting blog and Twitter.

Lori Duron, author of “Raising my Rainbow,” a book and blog about raising a gender nonconforming son, posted a photo June 26 on her blog and on Twitter of the family posing together at the OC Pride celebration on Twitter.

Lori, husband Matt and 10-year-old son C.J. were holding signs and a rainbow flag. She says it was C.J.’s first trip to Pride and he had self-identified as a member of the LGBTQ community at age 8, a HuffPost interview said.

On Sunday, July 9, actor James Woods, who has been known for his conservative views, posted the photo on Twitter with a comment.

This is sweet. Wait until this poor kid grows up, realizes what you’ve done, and stuffs both of you dismembered into a freezer in the garage pic.twitter.com/1k3ITApFsF

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 10, 2017

Woods’ post drew hateful reactions across social media, the family said. But the comment also drew a response Tuesday, July 11, from actor Neil Patrick Harris, who is openly gay and a parent of two. Harris and husband David Burtka wrote the foreword to Duron’s book.

Utterly ignorant and classless, Mr. Woods. I’m friends with this family. You know not of what you speak, and should be ashamed of yourself. https://t.co/ZrbtZH49sp

— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) July 11, 2017

The Twitter traffic has received attention from national publications like HuffPost and People magazine. The family did an interview with HuffPost with their reaction to the comments.

“It’s hard being the bigger man when someone attacks your family and does it in the way Woods did it. I’ll leave it at that,” Matt Duron told HuffPost.

His wife said:” I was totally and completely shocked at first. … I saw the Tweet because someone had posted it on Facebook and one of our friends left a comment defending us. At first, I couldn’t quite make sense of his words in conjunction with the picture of us at Pride. Like, my brain couldn’t register that James Woods ― a somewhat public figure ― was saying that my sweet, happy, harmless 10-year-old son will eventually kill us, dismember us and stuff us in the freezer.

“Woods also implied that we force our son to be gender creative. Anybody who has followed our journey knows that is not true. I’ve written about how much easier our lives would be if both of our boys were straight and cisgender.”

Woods addressed the family again in series of tweets Wednesday.

For the record I have supported human rights of all stripes and persuasions, colors, creeds, choices and preferences my entire life. Period.

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 12, 2017

Some children can be ruthlessly cruel to children who are simply different in any way. I humbly suggest making your child a target is unwise

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 12, 2017

I spent my entire adult life in the New York theatre scene, kids. I have more gay friends than Liberace. So let’s stop the homophobia train.

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 12, 2017

Lori said that after Harris’ tweet, she felt like she had an army of support.

“With Neil being who he is and having the audience he does, that positive emotion was multiplied. We are so thankful for his tweet and support. When other celebrities started re-tweeting Neil’s tweet, it felt like this big, powerful, loving, supportive army had assembled in front of us and we could take a moment to catch our breath.”

Read the full interview with the family here and in People here.

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER

HONOLULU  A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday expanded the list of family relationships needed by people seeking new visas from six mostly Muslim countries to avoid President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson ordered the government not to enforce the ban on grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins of people in the United States.

“Common sense, for instance, dictates that close family members be defined to include grandparents,” U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson said in his ruling. “Indeed grandparents are the epitome of close family members.”

The U.S. Supreme Court last month exempted visa applicants from the ban if they can prove a “bona fide” relationship with a U.S. citizen or entity.

The Trump administration has said the ban won’t apply to citizens of the six countries with a parent, spouse, fiance, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling already in the U.S.

Hawaii said grandparents, uncles and aunts and other close relatives should also be exempted. The state asked Watson, who blocked the president’s revised travel ban in March, to clarify that those family members are also exempt from the ban.

Watson rejected Hawaii’s request, saying the state should go to the U.S. Supreme Court since it was seeking to clarify that court’s requirement of a “bona fide relationship.”

Hawaii appealed Watson’s ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the court said Watson’s ruling was not appealable under federal judicial laws. The 9th Circuit, however, said Watson had the authority to interpret the Supreme Court’s order and block any violation of it. Hawaii then renewed its last week request with Watson in a different form.

“Because plaintiffs now seek such injunctive relief, the court reaches the merits of their request, consistent with the Ninth Circuit’s guidance,” Watson wrote.

The Hawaii attorney general’s office didn’t immediately comment on Watson’s ruling.

The U.S. Department of Justice declined to comment Thursday.

SANTA ANA — Compton’s former deputy treasurer and his wife pleaded guilty Thursday, July 13, to a federal charge of stealing more than $3.7 million in city funds.

Salvador Galvan, 47, of La Mirada, admitted one federal count of theft from an organization receiving federal funds. His wife, Rosa Maria Galvan, pleaded guilty to the same charge.

The felony charge carries a possible maximum prison sentence of 10 years, but prosecutors agreed to recommend a term of no more than three years and 10 months, according to a plea deal, which also outlines agreed-upon restitution of $3.72 million.

As part of the agreement, Rosa Galvan agreed to hand over the keys to a 2013 Nissan Frontier and a 2012 Honda Pilot to the government.

Rosa Galvan received “hundreds of thousands of dollars in either cash” or money orders from her husband, according to her plea deal. She used some of the ill-gotten gains to pay $14,000 in cash for the Honda on Oct. 14, 2015, at an Irvine dealer.

Court documents show her making cash deposits into her account of $211,044 from February 2012 through August of last year.

Both are scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 3 by U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton in Santa Ana.

According to the charging document, Compton’s then-deputy city treasurer skimmed cash from City Hall over a six-year period, taking anywhere from $200 to $8,000 a day. The losses were small enough that they didn’t trigger alarm, but fellow employees said they wondered how Galvan could afford a new Audi and other expenses on a $60,000 salary, according to court papers.

Galvan, who worked in the Compton Treasurer’s Office for more than 20 years, was responsible for tallying the cash received by the city as payment for parking tickets, business licenses and other fees. After the cash was counted, Galvan prepared the money for deposit into a city bank account, according to court documents.

The FBI interviewed Galvan’s supervisor, who “reflected about Galvan’s time in the office, his unexplained affluence and his generosity,” according to an affidavit.

The supervisor told investigators that Galvan went from driving an “old Toyota” to increasingly luxurious vehicles, including the black Audi sedan. The affidavit also states that Galvan told his supervisor that he purchased a residence in La Mirada and demolished the house so he could rebuild it.

Galvan was arrested late last year.

One might think the purported strength of the California economic recovery would translate to fewer folks using various high-cost lenders.

But one example of the divided nature of the economic rebound is seen in Californians’ continued heavy use of relatively expensive forms of borrowings – payday loans and other non-bank deals.

I tossed into my trusty spreadsheet some fresh statistics from the State Department of Business Oversight tracking three key consumer loans frequently used by folks in financial distress or simply seeking some quick, easy-to-get dollars. I learned that overall fewer borrowers are borrowing a larger sum.

First, there’s high-cost lending’s poster child: payday loans. Cash advances of up to $300 with annualized interest rates that averaged 372 percent. Sadly, that’s an improvement from the average 414 percent charged as the recession ended.

Next, I looked at unsecured consumer loans – typically up to $10,000, but they can be more. Often a somewhat cheaper borrowing option but 100 percent-plus interest rates are not unheard of.

And a new state test program – Responsible Small Dollar Loans – is a regulatory attempt to nudge lenders to provide loans between $300 and $2,499 with certain consumer-friendlier terms, including reporting payments to credit bureaus to improve the user’s bill-payment histories.

I’m pretty sure few people want to borrow money at these high costs for interest. But sometimes the alternatives are even financially weaker: from bouncing checks and incurring significant bank fees to missing work because car repairs can’t be paid for.

California lenders who make these higher cost loans served a combined 3.08 million customers in 2016 – and it’s a good bet there’s some overlap from folks who used various expensive lenders. That was essentially flat from 2015, but well above levels seen in 2012 to 2014.

These borrowers took out loans valued at $8.5 billion, down 15 percent in a year … but 2015 was the post-recession high.

Last year’s dip masks the growth of this lending business – something you’d think improving economic fundamentals wouldn’t let happen. While the number of customers fell by nearly 40 percent, yearly dollars lent soared $5 billion in six years – or a 139 percent jump.

Payday loans draw a lot of bad press – and for good reason – but it is not a growth business.

The number of individual payday customers was 1.8 million last year, down slightly from the year before. The number of transactions fell as well – don’t forget the typical borrower doing a payday deal makes six such transactions a year.

And the shrinking business means fewer lenders: 1,850 locations statewide last year, down 14 percent from 2010.

Some of that business went to folks who can lend more money. Non-bank unsecured loans is a hotspot for nontraditional lenders.

Last year, 1.08 million unsecured loans for $5.1 billion were made by regulated non-banks in California. Both figures were off from 2015, but that was this niche’s busiest year since the recession.

When you look back to 2010, you’ll see last year’s unsecured lending was quadruple in terms of loans done and up 12-fold in dollars lent. That helps explain why the roster of California’s licensed consumer loan makers has grown by 30 percent since 2010. And this sector has also benefited from growing offerings of online services, accounting for nearly half of 2016’s deals.

Finally, there’s the three-year-old experimental lending project still in infancy. This niche’s 201,000 loans for $242 million last year represented less than 3 percent of all the high-cost deals made by California lenders last year.

Department Commissioner Jan Lynn Owen expressed hope that Californians were gaining some financial relief from lower-cost products available outside the payday industry.

“While we don’t yet have any conclusive evidence, it seems logical and we would hope that more consumers are taking advantage of small-dollar loans available at much lower interest rates, including those participating in the Pilot Program for Responsible Small Dollar Loans.”

Let’s be honest. There are many reasons for the continued proliferation of this type of pricey lending.

Yes, an unsatisfying economic rebound has left many Californians in financial stress and in need of instant cash at nearly any price. And some people want to keep monetary secrets, whether those dealings be hidden from the government or loved ones.

These loans are risky and lenders get paid for taking it. For example, 4.6 percent of the checks given to payday lenders bounced. Roughly one-in-three unsecured loans were charged a late-payment fee last year. And 18 percent of the experimental program’s 2016 loans were paid late at one point.

But the traditional banking industry is part of the challenge, too. It’s done a poor job of expanding access to mainstream banking products to various “unbanked” groups, especially low-income households.

Even the basic products banks offer to the masses are commonly not very financially friendly. Fees of all sorts on small-balance bank accounts can sometimes make these high-cost deals at non-banks look competitive.

Collectively, it makes for business opportunities for nontraditional lenders. Yes, their products are expensive but they do oddly serve needs of folks who are unable to use traditional banks — or choose not to.

LOS ANGELES — Nneka Ogwumike scored a season-high 29 points, and Candace Parker had 20 points, nine rebounds and six assists as the Sparks beat the Connecticut Sun, 87-77, on Thursday night at Staples Center.

The Sparks trailed by 14 points after the first quarter, but outscored the Sun 51-25 over the next two quarters. Chelsea Gray’s back-to-back 3-pointers highlighted the Sparks’ 20-6 run to close the half for a 46-45 lead, and Ogwumike’s three-point play capped a 9-3 run to open the third.

Gray made four 3-pointers and scored 17 points for the Sparks (13-5), who had lost two in a row. Alana Beard had two steals to move past DeLisha Milton-Jones for fifth in WNBA history with 620.

Jonquel Jones scored 20 points and Jasmine Thomas added 14 for Connecticut (11-8), which lost for the first time in six games.