Nearly half a century after Anita Bryant made Miami the crucible in the fight for gay rights, she has died of cancer in Edmond, Oklahoma, at age 84. But her cause, once mocked as intolerant and ...
Anita Bryant, a singer and former beauty queen who had a flourishing music career in the 1960s and ‘70s but whose opposition to gay rights – she called homosexuality “an abomination” – virtually ...
Anita Bryant is seen at a press conference in Miami Beach, Fla., on June 8, 1977. (AP Photo/Bill Hudson, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, Grammy-nominated singer and ...
Thom Higgins is credited for coining the term “gay pride.” He also earned national headlines when he threw a pie in anti-gay activist Anita Bryant’s face in 1977. And for most of his 44 years, Higgins ...