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

Oklahoma County DA Vicki Behenna has filed charges against three in connection with a May 5 Midtown shooting outside The Collective.

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 ...

She was 84. Bryant died Dec. 16 at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, according to a statement posted by her family to news site The Oklahoman on Thursday. The family did not list a cause of death.

NEW YORK (AP) — Anita Bryant, 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… ...

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 AP Jan 13, 2025 Jan 13, 2025 0 ...

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 ...

She was crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1958 at age 18, and went on to become a runner-up in the Miss America pageant in 1959. Anita Bryant is crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1958.

Anita Bryant, pitchwoman who crusaded against gay rights, dies at 84 She became one of the most incendiary cultural warriors of the 1970s and saw her prosperous singing career implode as a result.

Bryant spent the latter part of her life in Oklahoma, where she led Anita Bryant Ministries International. Her second husband, NASA test astronaut Charles Hobson Dry, died last year.