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Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer and anti-gay activist. She had three top 20 hits in the United States in the early 1960s. [1] She was the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1980 for the Florida Citrus Commission. [2]
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer and anti-gay rights activist. She scored four Top 40 hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Paper Roses". [1] She was also a former Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner.
Jul 26, 2021 · Singer Anita Bryant spearheaded the anti-gay rights movement in Miami in the 1970s. On an episode of the "One Year " podcast, Sarah Green, Bryant's granddaughter, said she told her grandmother...
Anita Bryant was born on March 25, 1940 in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, USA. She is an actress, known for Roger & Me (1989), Drugs Are Like That (1969) and Mrs. America (2020). She has been married to Charlie Dry since 1990. She was previously married to Bob Green.
In January 1977, however, she became a highly controversial public figure, identified primarily as a crusader against homosexual rights. The books Bryant wrote before 1977 are much like Christmas family newsletters, filled with photos, anecdotes, and news of the Green family.
Mar 20, 2011 · A Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and a Miss America runner-up in 1959, Bryant rocketed to fame in the late 1950s as a clean-cut young woman with a sweet but powerful voice.
The Save Our Children campaign by 1970s Christian crusader Anita Bryant laid the groundwork for Florida's Don't Say Gay bill and the state's LGBTQ culture war.
Aug 18, 2016 · Robert Whirry -- a writer of the upcoming play Anita Bryant's Playboy Interview-- on why it's so important to know your enemies.
Anita Jane Bryant is an American singer and anti-gay rights activist. She scored four Top 40 hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Paper Roses". She was also a former Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner.
A popular singer of the '60s, Anita Bryant has been known as a beauty queen, a singer, a Florida citrus spokeswoman, and later an advocate against homosexuality. Her hits, which made both the British…
