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Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer and anti-gay rights 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]
Oct 26, 2023 · On October 14, 1977, while speaking at an event in Iowa to promote her campaign to roll back anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ people, Anita Bryant is hit in the face with a pie. Bryant ...
Apr 13, 2022 · That woman was Anita Bryant, formerly Miss Oklahoma and a white, telegenic, Top 40 singer who was well known for her Florida orange juice commercials (“A day without orange juice is like a day ...
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Apr 14, 2022 · April 14, 2022 · 8 min read. Anita Bryant’s decades-old 'Save Our Children' campaign rings familiar in Florida. At a public hearing in Dade County, Florida, parents were enraged. The nation, they said, was in peril and children were at risk. A recent ordinance had granted gay people housing and employment protections, and that meant teachers ...
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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. Now, her granddaughter is marrying a woman.
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Aug 18, 2016 · For those of us who've been around long enough to remember who Anita Bryant is and was -- and a pat on the back if you do -- then it's likely you also remember the devastating impact she and her ...
May 16, 2019 · Ashley Judd and Neil Patrick Harris will star in “Anita,” a long-gestating biopic of Anita Bryant, the TV pitchwoman and singer who campaigned against local anti-discrimination ordinances in ...