NEW YORK 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. She was 84. Bryant died Dec. 16 at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, according to a statement posted by her family to news site […]The post

Anita Bryant, a singer who leveraged her celebrity platform to fight against gay rights in Miami-Dade County in the 1970s, died at her home in Oklahoma on Jan. 16 at the age of 84. Bryant was initially known for her music, delivering three hit songs to the top 20 list in the US in the …

One of the most famous moments in Anita Bryants career of antigay activism occurred October 14, 1977, when a gay man threw a pie in her face in Des Moines.

Bryant led a successful campaign to repeal an ordinance in Floridas Miami-Dade County that would have prohibited discrimination against gay people.

I know youre not supposed to say anything bad about the dead; however, when Rush Limbaugh and

In a long campaign of television commercials, she sang Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree and offered the tagline: Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine. But her anti-gay organization gave rise to the modern-day religious right's strategy of tying homosexuality to perceived threats against children.

Anita Bryant Dry, known popularly Anita Bryant a singer and crusader against the progress of gay rights has died at the age of 84, her family announced in an obituary.

Anita Bryant, a Grammy nominated singer, TV personality and orange juice pitchwoman whose show business career was submerged in the public eye by her anti-gay crusades of the late 1970s, died December 16 at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma. She was 84. Her death was announced in an obituary in The Oklahoman. A cause of […]

Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen and pop singer of the 1960s whose career led her to become a spokesperson for Florida oranges in the early ’70s and an evangelical crusader against gay rights later in that decade, died Dec. 16 at age 84, her family announced Thursday. The family’s obituary for Anita Bryant Day, […]

Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen and pop singer of the 1960s whose career led her to become a spokesperson for Florida oranges in the early ’70s and an evangelical crusader against gay rights later in that decade, died Dec. 16 at age 84, her family announced Thursday. The family’s obituary for Anita Bryant Day, […]

Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen and pop singer of the 1960s whose career led her to become a spokesperson for Florida oranges in the early ’70s and an evangelical crusader against gay rights later in that decade, died Dec. 16 at age 84, her family announced Thursday. The family’s obituary for Anita Bryant Day, […]