Anita Bryant
Background
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma) is an American singer. She is widely known for her strong views against homosexuality, and for her prominent campaigning in the mid-1970s to prevent gay equality, specifically her successful move to repeal a local ordinance in Miami, Florida that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Bryant is a member of a conservative church congregation affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Last Week - About Anita Bryant
...Hellboy II: The Golden Army 10) Slumdog Millionaire Richard von Busack 1) Wall-E 2) The Dark Knight 3) Happy-Go-Lucky 4) The Fall 5) Revolutionary Road 6) My Winnipeg 7) A Christmas Tale 8) Up the Yangtze 9) Milk 10) Around the Bay Nick Schager 1) Synecdoche,...
7 days ago from
Cinematical
...makes for a truly remarkable entertainment experience. #3 - Slumdog Millionaire There ought to be a law against Danny Boyle and his undeniable moviemaking brilliance. After all, if an everyday item threatened to take your breath away as often and as...
6 days ago from
PopMatters
...was ever cast. In fact, we'd be a little scared if FOF did like this flick, as a "pro-family"-approved version would've cast Kirk Cameron in the lead role and had its title character denouncing the Castro and falling in love with Anita Bryant! But here's the...
5 days ago from
Good As You
...“Milk,” the new biopic with a ferociously charming Sean Penn as the gay activist who beat back Proposition 6 and a citrus-sweet Anita Bryant in the late 70s. Take your friends to it. I dare them to call your bio lab “gay” or its nerdy professor, either after...
4 days ago from
The New York Times
...have voted to overturn a local gay-rights ordinance, giving momentum to a backlash whose most visible public face belongs to Anita Bryant, an erstwhile singer and orange-juice pitchwoman. The gay residents of the Castro are angry and looking to Harvey for...
4 days ago from
The New York Times
...employing the "save our children" narrative: The LGBT movement lacks a large enough presence in certain communities. In Anita Bryant's time, queer youth was a community which lacked the presence of a strong voice and representation within the larger youth...
3 days ago from
Pam's House Blend
Last Month - About Anita Bryant
...is hastened by images of Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz and former pageant queen/orange juice promoter/anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant. Nudging him along his journey to self-awareness are his idiosyncratic parents, his draft-dodging brother, and his dreamy gym...
30 days ago from
Broadway World
...to open May 9, the west coast premiere of the John Weidman-David Shire-Richard Maltby musical based on the popular 1987 movie. Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins by Brin Christopher Williams will open August 28, the story of a young boy's sexual awakening in...
30 days ago from
TheaterMania.com
... The Florida law at issue in was enacted in 1977, a result of former Miss America (and orange juice spokeswoman) Anita Bryant's nationwide campaign to roll back civil rights for gays and lesbians. (This history is vividly remembered in the recently-released...
29 days ago from
FindLaw's Writ - Legal Commentary
...and their convenient scapegoats), Milk expertly mixes archival footage (including interviews with that odious homophobe Anita Bryant) with the dramatic recreations, and the climactic candlelight vigil -- one of the most stirring sights in 20th century American...
29 days ago from
Charlotte Creative Loafing
...ability to connect. This quality is evident not only in his scenes with Franco, but in his debates with John Briggs (Denis O'Hare), the homophobe who engineered Prop 6; in his give-and-take with his staff; and in his speech-making. There may be one too many...
29 days ago from
Sarasota Creative Loafing
...behind the bitterness purposefully fomented by the likes of Pat Boone, Newt and their anti-gay heroine of yesteryear, Anita Bryant. In my letter to Newt, I told him about Generation Equality, who are the most supportive of full LGBT equality than any American...
29 days ago from
Huffington Post
...a shame Pat Boone couldn't have gotten Satan to loan him Anita Bryant for the occasion of his latest anti-gay tirade. Maybe he could have had her rotting corpse dug up for a photo-op. The washed up old performer-- who became a celebrity by brazenly stealing...
29 days ago from
Down With Tyranny!
...he defended the state’s practice of handcuffing prison inmates to hitching posts. Case closed: Voted to uphold an Anita Bryant-era Florida law prohibiting gays and lesbians from adopting children — even when they’ve served as their foster parents. Precedent:...
29 days ago from
Feministe
...ability to connect. This quality is evident not only in his scenes with Franco, but in his debates with John Briggs (Denis O'Hare), the homophobe who engineered Prop 6; in his give-and-take with his staff; and in his speech-making. There may be one too many...
28 days ago from
Creative Loafing Tampa
... Here's the famous video of fired citrus hawkette and terrible human being Anita Bryant, being walloped in her hateful face with a pie by a Gay Rights demonstrator. Her creaming is a nice addendum to Milk, which I loved so much it almost redeemed Sean Penn...
28 days ago from
All That Klausner