Thom Higgins is credited for coining the term “gay pride.” He also earned national headlines when he threw a pie in anti-gay ...

Anita Bryant, 84, a former Miss Oklahoma, Grammy-nominated singer and prominent booster of orange juice and other products who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposi… ...

Anita Bryant's 'Save Our Children' campaign When the gay rights movement sprang into national awareness after the Stonewall riots in 1969 , the first organized voices against it came from Florida.

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 ...

Anita Bryant, a singer, entertainer and anti-gay activist, has died.She was 84. According to the obituary submitted Thursday by her family to The Oklahoman, part of the USA TODAY Network, she died ...

Anita Bryant, the singer and former beauty queen who had a flourishing music career in the 1960s and ’70 but whose opposition to gay rights — she called homosexuality “an abomination ...

A person's values and beliefs greatly shape the lasting impression others have of them after they pass. Take Anita Bryant, for example, who died at her home in Edmond, Okla., on Dec. 16, 2024, at ...

In January 1977, the Dade County Commission said no to Anita Bryant, voting to pass the ordinance. But Bryant vowed to fight on. Save Our Children would spread the lie that gay people were ...

Singer Anita Bryant performs a musical number onstage at her new namesake theater in Branson, Missouri in June 1995, a state-of-the-art performing arts center previously built and operated as ...

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.