The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice was an all-American entertainer before she began crusading ...

Along with Orville Redenbacher, Marie Osmond, Phyllis Diller and Chubby Checker, Anita Bryant ranked as one of my first ...

Growing up in Panama City, Nadine Smith remembers watching Anita Bryant on television "almost daily," using her sing-songy ...

Anita Bryant has died. She was 84. Bryant died Dec. 16, 2024, at her Oklahoma home, surrounded by family and friends. Her family submitted an obituary Jan. 9, 2025, to The Oklahoman, part of the ...

Anita Bryant has died. She was 84. Bryant died Dec. 16, 2024, at her Oklahoma home, surrounded by family and friends. Her family submitted an obituary Jan. 9, 2025, to The Oklahoman, part of the USA ...

Anita Bryant addresses the media at her home in Miami Beach during her 1977 campaign against Dade County’s gay-rights ordinance. Voters repealed the ordinance on June 7, 1977, six months after ...

In Florida, her legacy was challenged and perpetuated ... Bryant spent the latter part of her life in Oklahoma, where she led ...

Nearly half a century after Anita Bryant made Miami the crucible in the fight for gay rights, she has died of cancer in Edmond, Oklahoma, at age 84. But her cause, once mocked as intolerant and ...

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