Anti‑gay crusader Anita Bryant is hit in the face with a pie
Oct 26, 2023 · On October 14, 1977, while speaking at an event in Iowa to promote her campaign to roll back anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ people, Anita Bryant is hit in the face with a pie....
Why was Anita Bryant pied in the face? 1977 incident
Jan 10, 2025 · On October 14, 1977, Anita spoke at her campaign in Des Moines, Iowa, against anti-discrimination laws that protected LGBTQ people. As Anita was answering the press about her crusade against...
Why did a gay man throw a pie in Anita Bryant's face? - Advocate.com
Jan 10, 2025 · Entertainer-evangelist Anita Bryant, her face covered with banana cream pie, stares in disbelief during a news conference where gay activist Thom Higgins jumped up and hit her in the face with...
Remembering the Time Anita Bryant Got Pied in the Face
Jan 10, 2025 · 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: getting pied in the face for being such a rabid bigot.
Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com
In this video clip from Anita Bryant's 1977 Des Moines press conference, the American singer and former Miss Oklahoma receives a pie to the face from a man who disagrees with her severe...
Anita Bryant's 1977 Pie in the Face Incident and Orange Juice …
Jan 10, 2025 · Orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant had a pie thrown in her face during a 1977 protest against her anti-LGBTQ+ stance. She died of cancer in Oklahoma.
Today In Gay History: Gay Activist Pies Anita Bryant In the Face
Oct 14, 2016 · 39 years ago today, Anita Bryant was iconically pied in the face by gay rights activist Tom Higgins. Bryant was being interviewed for her crusade against homosexuals when the historic moment...
Why was Anita Bryant pied in the face? Gay Rights activist Thom …
By 1977, members of the Minneapolis-based LGBTQ+ group, Target City Coalition, had already pie-faced at least three prominent anti-gay activists. Anita Bryant, a well-known figure in the...
Anita Bryant Pied 1977 | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley
Oct 14, 2016 · Emboldened by her success in Florida, Bryant and her husband went national with their anti-gay message, but on October 14, 1977 while in Des Moines, Iowa,, a gay rights activist pushed a whipped cream pie into Anita Bryant’s face during a press conference.
MN90: Anita Bryant’s Pie in the Face – AMPERS
In 1977, Anita Bryant and her organization Save the Children led a crusade to repeal gay rights laws across the country. Britt Aamodt looks at what happened when a Minneapolis gay rights activist met Bryant with a pie and when her crusade arrived in St. Paul in 1978.