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Minnie Bruce Pratt, Celebrated Poet of Lesbian Life, Dies at 76
Minnie Bruce Pratt, a feminist poet and essayist whose collection “Crime Against Nature,” which mapped her despair, anger and resilience after losing custody of her children when she came out as a lesbian, earned one of poetry’s highest honors and made her a target of hard-right conservatives, died on July 2 near her home in Syracuse, N.Y. She was 76. Her death, at a hospice facility for L.G.B.T.Q.