Free to Be…You and Me is a wildly successful 1972 album, with a 1974 companion book and TV special, conceived by the actress Marlo Thomas. The book, Thomas wrote in the Foreword, has “stories and poems and songs that would help boys and girls feel free to be who they are and who they want to be.” Even if you weren’t around in the 1970s, you can guess the message, delivered at the high watermark of