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 ...

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma ... 1977 in Iowa about her crusade against homosexuality, she had a pie thrown in her face by gay-rights activist Thom Higgins. "At least it was a fruit ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Anita Bryant, a popular singer and product pitchwoman in the 1960s and ’70s who successfully destroyed both those aspect of ...

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 ...