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Anita Bryant

Anita Bryant

Actor · 1940 – 2024 · Barnsdall, Oklahoma, USA

Anita Jane Bryant (March 25, 1940 – December 16, 2024) was an American singer and political activist, known for anti-gay activism. She had three Top 20 hits in the United States in the early 1960s. She was the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1980 for the Florida Citrus Commission. In the 1970s, Bryant became known as an outspoken opponent of gay rights in the U.S. In 1977, she ran the "Save Our Children" campaign to repeal a local ordinance in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Her involvement with the campaign was condemned by gay rights activists. They were assisted by many other prominent figures in music, film, and television, and retaliated by boycotting the orange juice that she promoted. Though the campaign ended successfully with a 69% majority vote to repeal the ordinance on June 7, 1977 (Dade County restored the ordinance in 1998), it permanently damaged her public image, and her contract with the Florida Citrus Commission was terminated three years later. This, as well as her later divorce from Bob Green, damaged her financially. Bryant never regained her former prominence and filed for bankruptcy twice. She lives in her home state of Oklahoma, runs the Oklahoma City-based Anita Bryant Ministries International, and works with a host of charities and non-profits.

Movies12

  • Movie7.2

    Milk

    2008 · 2.5K votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie
  • Movie7.1

    Roger & Me

    1989 · 326 votes

  • Movie4.0
  • Movie6.0
  • Movie7.0
  • Movie6.3
  • Movie4.0

    Armee der Liebenden oder Revolte der Perversen

    Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts

    1979 · 5 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie8.0

    Reel in the Closet

    2015 · 1 votes

  • Movie2.7

    Drugs Are Like That

    1969 · 11 votes

Series9

  • TV7.5
  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV7.5
  • TV5.4

    Kraft Music Hall

    1958 · 7 votes

  • TV8.0
  • TV7.8

    The George Gobel Show

    1954 · 4 votes

  • TV
  • TV7.4

    The Seventies

    2015 · 24 votes