The former Miss Oklahoma had been known as a booster of Florida orange juice, but her career took a turn after a campaign to ...
When Miami-Dade County gave its final approval to an ordinance in 1977 outlawing discrimination against gay people, she led ...
Anita Bryant, a singer and former beauty queen who had a flourishing music career in the 1960s and ‘70s but whose opposition ...
She did manage to get the Miami ordinance overwhelmingly repealed and spread toxic misinformation about gay people, teachers, and children. But the whole thing backfired when the gay community and ...
Along with Orville Redenbacher, Marie Osmond, Phyllis Diller and Chubby Checker, Anita Bryant ranked as one of my first ...
Anita Bryant, a singer who leveraged her celebrity platform to fight against gay rights in Miami-Dade County in the 1970s, died at her home in Oklahoma on ...