History How Anita Bryant Changed America She launched the modern antigay movement. It went differently than she expected.

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 addresses the media at her home in Miami Beach during her 1977 campaign against Dade County’s gay-rights ordinance.

Anita Bryant, the singer and former beauty queen who had a flourishing music career in the 1960s and ’70 but whose opposition to gay rights — she called homosexuality “an abomination ...

Anita Bryant, the godmother of modern anti-LGBTQ+ moral panics, died on December 16, 2024 at the age of 84, so it’s finally time that we eulogize her life’s most meaningful accomplishment ...

Here are some historic photos of the activists who fought Anita Bryant's anti-queer crusade every step of the way.

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights, has died.

In January of 1977, the Dade County Commission passed a gay-rights ordinance, making Miami the fortieth US city with such a law. The vote alarmed Anita Bryant, a singer, former beauty queen, and ...

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 She led the effort to repeal Dade County’s gay- rights ordinance, which was passed on Jan. 18, 1977, and repealed by voters on June 7 ...

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 ...