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By the time we get to Anita Bryant in 1977, Ryan said, “they’ve already realized that they can harness this political conservatism and attach it to religion by talking about the family.” ...
A national battle over gay rights kicked off in Miami in 1977. It all started with Anita Bryant. The beauty queen and orange-juice spokeswoman was America’s leading anti-gay crusader.
Anita Bryant, who died at age 84, led the charge to repeal Dade County’s gay-rights law in 1977. Her movement galvanized gays and conservative Christians.
In January 1977, the Dade County Commission said no to Anita Bryant, voting to pass the ordinance. But Bryant vowed to fight on. Save Our Children would spread the lie that gay people were ...
Raihala: Meet the Minnesotan who coined the term ‘gay pride’ and tossed a pie in Anita Bryant’s face
Thom Higgins is credited for coining the term “gay pride.” He also earned national headlines when he threw a pie in anti-gay ...
Gay rights has come a long way since Anita Bryant’s 1977 campaign. Many cities and states bar employment and housing discrimination. The federal government enacted hate crime legislation and ...
Anita Bryant in May 1977. The former hit 1960s singer is now best known as an outspoken opponent of gay rights. Getty Images She’s blood, but she’s also one of the most homophobic anti-LGBTQ ...
Singer and antigay activist Anita Bryant with the Rev. William Chapman in 1977, when she helped repeal an ordinance that prohibited discrimination against gays in hiring and housing.
Anita Bryant told reporters in 1977 that she was blacklisted from television because of her anti-gay stance. Anita Jane Bryant was born on March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma.
Anita Bryant's granddaughter recently revealed she is engaged to a woman. Gay activists demonstrate against Bryant in San Francisco, California, on June 26, 1977.
Ms. Bryant insisted that she had nothing against gay people personally. “The hardest thing to do is to convince people I don’t hate homosexuals,” she said on “The Phil Donahue Show” in 1977.
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