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Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is a retired American singer and anti-gay activist. She had three top 20 hits in the United States in the early 1960s. [2] She was the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1980 for the Florida Citrus Commission.
Anita Bryant. In 1977, singer Anita Bryant began spearheading the “Save Our Children” campaign, which aimed to repeal a Dade County, Florida, ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Jul 29, 2021 · The name Anita Bryant is synonymous with homophobic vitriol. Throughout the 1970s, the infamous anti-LGBTQ+ crusader waged a vicious war on LGBTQ+ rights, accusing queer people of corrupting youth through her infamous “Save Our Children” campaign.
Jul 8, 2021 · Transcript of Anita Bryant’s War on Gay Rights. S1: There were TV cameras in the hearing room, but the full meeting got taped more primitively on a Dictaphone voice recorder. The sound quality ...
New Yorker magazine humorist Andy Borowitz examines how Anita Bryant, ubiquitous in the 1960s and 70s for commercials promoting Florida orange juice, inadvertently energized the gay rights movement.
About the Film: In the heart-wrenching documentary LETTER TO ANITA, award-winning filmmaker Andrea Meyerson explores the painful legacy of singer Anita Bryant's infamous anti-gay campaign of the late 1970s.
Jun 4, 2007 · When the Rev. Jerry Falwell died last month, he was remembered for transforming religious conservatives into a powerful political force. But organizers of an exhibit opening Wednesday in Fort Laude…
