A former Miss Oklahoma, Anita Bryant became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights ...
Bryant led a successful campaign to repeal an ordinance in Florida’s Miami-Dade County that would have prohibited ...
Hers is a cautionary tale about the perils of bigotry. It’s the rabid and hateful venom people remember, not the orange juice ...
The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice was an all-American entertainer before she began crusading ...
Anita Bryant, a Grammy-nominated singer and former beauty queen who became known for her advocacy against gay rights in the ...
Bryant died Dec. 16 at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, according to a statement posted by her family to news site The Oklahoman ...
Anita Bryant, a popular singer and product pitchwoman in the 1960s and ’70s who successfully destroyed both those aspect of ...
Anita Bryant, the Florida orange juice promoter turned anti-gay rights activist who inspired the failed California Briggs ...
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 ...