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“This is an absurd crime against nature. It will not only be detrimental to these iconic marine fauna species, but to our fight against the climate crisis,” by seeking to exploit undersea fossil fuels.

Over time, the language defining a “crime against nature” changed in some states, oftentimes more clearly targeting same-sex couples.

Her collection “Crime Against Nature” recounts her losing custody of her children after she came out.

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.

They didn’t know how to find other work, either, because at the time, homosexuality was considered a “crime against nature” in Virginia.