In 1997, Florida’s anti-gay zealot Anita Bryant denounced American Airlines ... “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ...

Crandall, American Airlines CEO from 1985 to 1998, resisted anti-gay pressure after engaging with LGBTQ consumers.

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 ...

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 is seen at a press conference in Miami Beach, Fla., on June 8, 1977. (AP Photo/Bill Hudson, File) Anita Bryant is seen at a press conference in Miami Beach, Fla., on June 8 ...

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 ...

Anita Bryant Dry's soaring vocals helped catapult her to fame, from her public singing debut as a preschooler at her grandparent's Oklahoma Baptist church, her television show at age 12 and her ...

Anita Bryant, a beauty queen, singer and wholesome pitchwoman for Florida orange juice whose crusade against gay rights in the 1970s transformed her into one of the most polarizing figures in ...

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 ...