Thom Higgins is credited for coining the term “gay pride.” He also earned national headlines when he threw a pie in anti-gay ...

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 ...

Anita Bryant, the singer and ... in early 1977, Dade County, Fla. — which includes Miami, where Ms. Bryant lived — gave its final approval to an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against ...

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.

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 speaks before the Metro Commission in 1977. She led the effort to repeal Dade County’s gay rights ordinance, which was passed on Jan. 18, 1977, and repealed by voters on June 8 ...

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, a singer and former beauty queen who had a flourishing music career in the 1960s and '70s but whose opposition to gay rights -- she called homosexuality "an abomination" -- virtually ...

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. At age 2, as she ...

Anita Bryant told reporters in 1977 that she was blacklisted from television because of her anti-gay stance. Courtesy Everett Collection Anita Jane Bryant was born on March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall ...