The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice was an all-American entertainer before she began crusading against L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

Anita Bryant, who has died aged 84, was a 1960s pop singer, former beauty queen and brand ambassador for the Florida Citrus Commission who became a conservative icon and liberal hate figure in the 1970s when she campaigned against homosexuality and gay adoptions.

The former Miss Oklahoma had been known as a booster of Florida orange juice, but her career took a turn after a campaign to repeal an LGBTQ ordinance Florida’s Miami-Dade County in the late