collective the right to send our laboriously assembled literary journal out through the U.S. mail--that enabled us to do more than hand-carry copies to our readers.But the bigotry that had generated the Comstock laws was still firmly in place in other legal and social structures in the 1970s. For instance, "crime against nature" statutes continued to be on the books in two-thirds of the U.S. states, criminalizing LGBT+ people, our lives, and our loves. My husband used the anti-sodomy laws in North Carolina in 1975 to take my children away, arguing that as a lesbian, I was engaging in illegal, felonious behavior.
from The Huffington Post: Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write
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