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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Io Dodds

Cheri Pies death: Author of ‘pioneering’ lesbian parenting handbook dies of cancer at 73

University of California, Berkeley

The writer of one of America's first ever parenting books for lesbians has died of cancer at age 73.

Cheri Pies, a professor emerita of public health at the University of California, Berkeley, broke new ground for gay mothers when she published Considering Parenthood: A Workbook for Lesbians in 1985.

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