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Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American retired 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 .
The boycott lasted from January 1977 until Bryant's firing from the Florida Citrus Commission in 1980. Background. On June 7, 1977, Anita Bryant and her campaign successfully repealed Miami's anti-discrimination ordinance in a referendum won by a margin of 69 to 31 percent. However, the gay community retaliated against her by forming the ...
The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Nation's Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality is a 1977 book by Anita Bryant, in which the author provides an account of her evangelical Christian campaign against a gay rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida.
Anita Bryant and her Save Our Children campaign were the precursor to Florida's Don't Say Gay bill.
Northwest Baptist Church announced it from the pulpit. The news worried one of the church members named Anita Bryant, who was a 36-year-old singer/celebrity. [11] Bryant began her career as a local child star on a television show in Oklahoma City and on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.
Anita Bryant talks about her organization's victory in the Dade County Gay Rights Referendum, in Miami Beach, Fla., on June 7, 1977. Her "Save Our Children" group was the major force behind a 2-1 ...
Thomas Lawrence Higgins (June 17, 1950 – November 10, 1994) was an American writer and gay rights activist credited with coining the term gay pride. [1] He is best known for pushing a pie into the face of anti-gay activist Anita Bryant on live television in 1977.
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