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Multi-Grammy nominated singer, beauty queen, Florida Orange Juice pitchwoman and conservative activist Anita Bryant has died. She was 84. Bryant was a popular singer before becoming mired in ...
(1) Portrait of a woman as she stands under a 'National Lesbian Feminist Organization' sign on the National Mall prior to the Equal Rights Amendment March, Washington DC, July 9, 1978. She wears a ...
Nearly half a century after Anita Bryant made Miami the crucible in the fight for gay rights, she has died of cancer in Edmond, Oklahoma, at age 84. But her cause, once mocked as intolerant and ...
Anita Bryant, the pop singer and Oklahoma beauty queen who gained fame by convincing America that a “breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine” before seeing her popularity plummet ...
Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen and pop singer of the 1960s whose career led her to become a spokesperson for Florida oranges in the early ’70s and an evangelical crusader against gay rights later ...
In October 1977 the LGBT community throughout California was embattled. Conservative Orange County state Senator John Briggs was circulating a statewide ballot initiative that would ban homosexuals ...
Anita Bryant is seen at a press conference in Miami Beach, Fla., on June 8, 1977. (AP Photo/Bill Hudson, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, Grammy-nominated singer and ...
Anti-gay activist Anita Bryant in an orange grove in 1977 (Credit: Lynn Pelham/Getty Images) Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen and singer who gained notoriety in the 1970s for her anti-gay activism, ...
Anita Bryant at her home in Miami Beach, Fla., in 1978. Anita Bryant, a singer and former beauty queen who had a robust and flourishing music career, including hit songs like “Paper Roses,” in the ...
Anita Bryant, a Grammy-nominated singer and former beauty queen who became known for her advocacy against gay rights in the 1970s, died Dec. 16. She was 84. Bryant died surrounded by family and loved ...
Anita Bryant, a popular singer and product pitchwoman in the 1960s and ’70s who successfully destroyed both those aspect of her career by becoming the public, and very loud, face of a 1977 campaign ...
Anita Bryant, a singer and former beauty queen who had a robust and flourishing music career, including hit songs like “Paper Roses,” in the 1960s and ’70s, but whose opposition to gay rights — she ...