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 ...

She was blacklisted and got a raw deal, but like her or not, she stuck to her convictions,” Anthony Verdugo, founder and ...

6/24/1979: ‘We Are Everywhere and We Shall Be Free,’ states a protest placard at a gay rally in Dade County two years after Anita Bryant led the campaign to repeal the county’s gay-rights ...

History Revisited: Activists’ 1977 protest against antigay crusader Anita Bryant in downtown became known as “Houston’s Stonewall.” (Photo by Glynda Robbins) Ex-beauty queen and orange juice ...

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 ...