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 ...

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 ...

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. NEW YORK — Anita Bryant ...

"Anita Bryant is the greatest thing that ever happened to our ... writing and singing Christian children's songs and teaching a Sunday school class at a local church. She may have drawn the ...

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 ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PAPER ROSES") ANITA BRYANT: (Singing) Paper roses. Paper roses. WATSON: "Paper Roses" sold 1 million copies. It was one of her three hits to do so. In 1961, "In My Little ...

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 ...