Anita Bryant, born on March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, is an American singer, beauty queen, and controversial figure in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights. Raised in a devout Southern Baptist family, ...

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights, has died.

Anita Bryant, an entertainer who was commended by the Southern Baptist Convention for standing up to the gay rights movement ...

Here are some historic photos of the activists who fought Anita Bryant's anti-queer crusade every step of the way.

The way Anita Bryant told it, she didn’t have a choice but to build a nationwide antigay movement. Her 1977 book The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Nation’s Families and the Threat of ...

Anita Bryant, the singsongy beauty queen who spun her folksy Oklahoma charm into a career hawking orange juice and campaigning against gay rights, died last month at 84. When the news broke on ...

By Anita Gates 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 ...

By Chris Koseluk Anita Bryant, the pop singer and Oklahoma beauty queen who gained fame by convincing America that a “breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine” before ...

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 ...