![]() She references the “compulsory heterosexual quiz” she was forced to take in high school where there were “two ways to answer: straight or gay, heterosexual or queer. Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Southern “proper” upbringing clearly outlined gender roles as male and female with no grey area. In S/HE Pratt says that people told her she couldn’t be “both a mother – a good woman – and also a lesbian – a perverted woman (Pratt, 11).” As a result, she was forced to sign a less-than-favorable agreement which allowed Weaver to move the children to a different state. With the legal climate at the time, Pratt could be labeled as an “unfit” mother by the courts just for being a lesbian. Weaver was outraged and attempted to sever ties between Pratt and her two sons with an ugly divorce. ![]() ![]() ![]() In gradu ate school, however, she met and fell in love with a woman named Leslie Feinberg and soon after came out as a lesbian. For years she played into this façade, marrying and having children with Martin E. She was raised in a traditional southern family, where southern morals and behavior guided her every move. Minnie Bruce Pratt is a writer, a poet, a mother, a lesbian. ![]()
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