The doc, titled 'Save Our Children,' will focus a lens on Florida's role in the national fight for gay rights by exploring how the anti-gay rights crusade, led by Bryant, sparked the modern-day ...

Nearly half a century after Anita Bryant made Miami the crucible ... Bryant and her Save Our Children coalition — later changed to Protect America’s Children — led a successful 1977 campaign ...

Anita Bryant, born on March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, is an American singer, beauty queen, and controversial figure in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights. Raised in a devout Southern Baptist family, ...

Anita Bryant addresses the media at her home ... Bryant and her Save Our Children coalition — later changed to Protect America’s Children — led a successful 1977 campaign to overturn a ...

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, Grammy-nominated singer and the one-time face of orange juice who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights ...

Anita Bryant, the godmother of modern anti ... (The campaign was later forced to change its name to “Protect America’s Children” after legal action from the humanitarian organization Save ...

But Bryant was still outraged. She wrote in The Anita Bryant Story, “The thought of known homosexuals teaching my children … kept coming to my mind.” When I reported on Bryant’s antigay ...

Anita Bryant ... of gay liberationists from back in Bryant’s day), her ideological project of convincing voters that queer people pose a threat to children is more politically potent than ...

Anita Bryant, a singer, entertainer and anti-gay activist, has died. She was 84. According to the obituary submitted Thursday by her family to The Oklahoman, part of the USA TODAY Network, she ...

The media have reported recently that Anita Bryant passed away on Dec. 16 ... Her tagline was “Save Our Children.” Supporters of gay rights condemned her. Florida Citrus was boycotted.