The doc, titled 'Save Our Children,' will focus a lens on Florida's role in the national fight for gay rights by exploring how the anti-gay rights crusade, led by Bryant, sparked the modern-day ...
Anita Bryant, born on March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, is an American singer, beauty queen, and controversial figure in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights. Raised in a devout Southern Baptist family, ...
Anita Bryant, the singsongy beauty queen who ... than at any time since the period when gay activist Thomas Higgins pied Bryant in the face on live television — a moment that came to symbolize ...
Thom Higgins will always be remembered for smushing a banana cream pie in Anita Bryant’s face. But his enormous contributions to the gay rights movement stretch far beyond one stunt, albeit a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, Grammy-nominated singer and prominent booster of orange juice and other products who became known over the second half of her life for her ...
Anita Bryant Dry's soaring vocals helped catapult her to fame, from her public singing debut as a preschooler at her grandparent's Oklahoma Baptist church, her television show at age 12 and her ...
Anita Bryant, a beauty queen, singer and wholesome pitchwoman for Florida orange juice whose crusade against gay rights in the 1970s transformed her into one of the most polarizing figures in ...
The way Anita Bryant told it, she didn’t have a choice ... lose her job shilling for Florida orange juice. And when she got pied in the face at a press conference in Iowa—her instant response ...