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 ...

Something in the air hasn’t felt right this month. Sure, rainbows are adorning more buildings and pink-dollar pop music is blasting louder in Castro bars, but there’s an eerie presence hovering over ...

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 ...