Anita Bryant, born on March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, is an American singer, beauty queen, and controversial figure in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights. Raised in a devout Southern Baptist family, ...
The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice was an all-American entertainer before she began crusading ...
Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken ...
Here are some historic photos of the activists who fought Anita Bryant's anti-queer crusade every step of the way.
Anita Bryant, the singsongy beauty queen who spun her folksy Oklahoma charm into a career hawking orange juice and ...
The way Anita Bryant told it, she didn’t have a choice but to build a nationwide antigay movement. Her 1977 book The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Nation’s Families and the Threat of ...
Growing up in Panama City, Nadine Smith remembers watching Anita Bryant on television "almost daily," using her sing-songy voice to sell Florida orange juice. She also remembers when the former ...
Anita Bryant, an entertainer who was commended by the Southern Baptist Convention for standing up to the gay rights movement ...
Anita Bryant Dry, a singer, anti-gay activist and founder of Save Our Children, died last month, according to an obituary from her family.