Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma ... "At least it was a fruit pie," Bryant quipped, then began to pray for Higgins before bursting into tears. "Thus always to bigots," said Higgins, who ...

As Anita was answering the press about her crusade against homosexuality, Thomas Lawrence Higgins, a gay rights activist, approached her and smashed a pie on her face. Bryant had reportedly said ...

(1) Portrait of a woman as she stands under a 'National Lesbian Feminist Organization' sign on the National Mall prior to the Equal Rights Amendment March, Washington DC, July 9, 1978. She wears a ...

Higgins hit her in the face with a pie. (Original Caption) Des Moines: Entertainer-evangelist Anita Bryant, her face covered with banana cream pie, stares in disbelief during a news conference ...

In a long campaign of television commercials, she sang “Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree” and offered the tagline: “Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.” But her ...

By Anita Gates Anita Bryant ... “At least it was a fruit pie,” Ms. Bryant ad-libbed. Some took that remark as an innocent allusion to her job promoting fresh produce; others saw it as a ...