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, ...

Growing up in Panama City, Nadine Smith remembers watching Anita Bryant on television "almost daily," using her sing-songy ...

Anita Bryant, an entertainer who was commended by the Southern Baptist Convention for standing up to the gay rights movement ...

Anita Bryant, the singsongy beauty queen who spun her folksy Oklahoma charm into a career hawking orange juice and ...

Singer, beauty queen and “pioneering Christian rights crusader” Anita Bryant died at the age of 84 on Dec. 16. According to ...

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, Grammy-nominated singer and prominent booster of orange juice and other products who ...

She was blacklisted and got a raw deal, but like her or not, she stuck to her convictions,” Anthony Verdugo, founder and executive director of the Christian Family Coalition.

In Florida, her legacy was challenged and perpetuated ... Bryant spent the latter part of her life in Oklahoma, where she led Anita Bryant Ministries International. Her second husband, NASA ...