A lifelong Christian, she received two Grammy nominations for best sacred performance and one for best spiritual performance, for the album “Anita Bryant ... Naturally.” By the late 1960s ...

The way Anita Bryant told ... All the while, Bryant claimed she was motivated by Christian compassion, saying, “I love homosexuals, if you can believe that. I love them enough to tell them ...

NEW YORK — 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 outspoken ...

Bryant did not have any breakout albums, although a holiday album that became something of an easy listening perennial, “Do You Hear What I Hear?: Christmas With Anita Bryant,” peaked at No ...

“Sometimes you have to pay a price for what you believe is right.” In 1977, pop singer, Miss Oklahoma beauty-pageant winner Anita Bryant led an anti-gay crusade on the streets of Miam ...

Anita Bryant ... for a planned Anita Bryant Christian show, he said. In 1980, Green came home one day and Bryant was gone. “The pressure was so great on her, I really believe that was the ...

“I don’t regret it, because I did the right thing,” Ms. Bryant recalled in a 1990 television interview. “Sometimes you have to pay a price for what you believe is right.” Anita Jane ...