Anita Bryant, a three-time Grammy nominee and anti-gay rights crusader, died in her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, on December 16, her family announced through an obituary on Thursday. She was 84.

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma ... The pieing was one of the early incidents of someone being pied in the face as a political protest, and would become one of the most enduring moments ...

(NEXSTAR) — Anita Bryant Dry, known popularly Anita Bryant ... It’s also been asserted that Bryant was one of the first people to be “pied” in public. The incident happened during ...

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 ...

Anita Bryant, the godmother of modern anti-LGBTQ+ ... we eulogize her life’s most meaningful accomplishment: getting pied in the face for being such a rabid bigot. Bryant, whose family confirmed ...

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 ...

As we reminisce about her professional and personal history, let's take a look at one of the key incidents during her crusade against gay rights days when she was pied in the face. Anita Bryant ...