Anita Bryant Dry, entertainer and anti-gay rights activist, died in December in Edmond, according to an obituary submitted by ...

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, known for her singing and anti-LGBTQ rights activism, passed away in December 2024. Bryant’s passing was announced by her family in an obituary on Thursday, January 9, 2025.

compared a plane full of nauseated passengers to an Anita Bryant concert. In Michael Moore’s documentary “Roger & Me” (1989), Ms. Bryant embodied forced optimism, singing the pop song “Joy ...

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights, has died.

Anita Jane Bryant was born on March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma. At age 2, as she started singing at a local Baptist church, her parents — Warren, who worked in the oil fields, and Lenora — ...

Anita Bryant, a Grammy-nominated singer and former beauty ... As an adult, her career in music blossomed, with Bryant singing at both Democratic and Republican national conventions in 1968 and the ...

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

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

Anita Bryant at her home in Miami Beach ... making double entendres about queens and singing about a promised land that’s “bright and gay,” and Tim Conway as a character who looked and ...

Anita Bryant Dry's soaring vocals helped catapult her to fame, from her public singing debut as a preschooler at her grandparent's Oklahoma Baptist church, her television show at age 12 and her ...