Along with Orville Redenbacher, Marie Osmond, Phyllis Diller and Chubby Checker, Anita Bryant ranked as one of my first ...
The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice was an all-American entertainer before she began crusading ...
Hers is a cautionary tale about the perils of bigotry. It’s the rabid and hateful venom people remember, not the orange juice ...
Bryant was perhaps most well-known for her 1977 “Save Our Children” campaign that painted gays and lesbians as a threat to ...
Anita Bryant Dry, known popularly Anita Bryant — a singer and crusader against the progress of gay rights — has died at the age of 84, her family announced in an obituary.
She was named Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and soon began a successful recording career. Her hit singles included “Till There Was ...
The vote alarmed Anita Bryant, a singer, former beauty queen ... had made the fight against gay and lesbian liberation one of its primary issues, and found it a particularly effective focus ...