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	Anita Bryant - Conservapedia
		A devout Christian born and raised in Oklahoma, Bryant won the prestigious talent competition of Arthur Godfrey at age 16, was runner-up in the Miss America competition at age 19, and next recorded three smash popular hit songs, of which a couple were imitated later by famous groups such as the Beatles.
		She was as popular as any rock star today, and had such broad appeal that she performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl III in 1969 and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at the burial of former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973.
		Subsequent attempts by Bryant to further her entertainment career in small towns were unsuccessful, and liberal newspapers hound her about that also.
	www.conservapedia.com /Anita_Bryant (565 words)

	Anita Bryant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anita Bryant (born March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma) is an American singer who made a series of television commercials for Florida orange juice.
		Bernards and to nailbiters." On June 7, 1977, Bryant's campaign led to a repeal of the anti-discrimination ordinance by a margin of 69% to 31%.
		Bryant was ridiculed in a 2005 episode of the tv show Will and Grace, in which it was implied that she was a lesbian or bisexual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anita_Bryant (742 words)

	UNCLE DONALD'S CASTRO STREET - Anita Bryant
		ANITA BRYANT built her campaign on hatred and lies and succeeded in repealing a civil rights ordinance for gays in Miami's Dade County.
		Bryant was a runner-up in the1958 Miss America Contest, a Southern Baptist, a gospel and pop singer, and she was spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission.
		Soon after Anita Bryant's political success in Miami, she was fired by the Citrus Commission (because gays mounted a very effective and well publicized boycott of Florida citrus), her singing career fell apart, her husband left her, and she recently had to file for bankruptcy.
	thecastro.net /bryant.html (1591 words)

	Independent Gay Forum: Varnell, Paul. 'Exorcising the Ghost of Anita.'
		Bryant, you recall, was a former beauty queen, second runner up – i.e., third place in the 1959 Miss America contest ("I was really disappointed that I didn't get the Miss Congeniality trophy," she said), a popular singer, Christian evangelist, and prominent pitchwoman for Florida orange juice and other products.
		Bryant said that Jesus "told us we were not to be concerned by the things the Old Testament said." When Playboy pointed out that Bryant constantly cited the Old Testament to support her opposition to homosexuality, she replied, "Well, when you start nitpicking...
		In 1980 Bryant told Ladies' Home Journal that she was "more inclined to say live and let live, just don't flaunt it or try to legalize it." In other words, the message was unchanged: Gays should stay in the closet and go to prison if they are caught having sex.
	www.indegayforum.org /authors/varnell/varnell98.html (874 words)

	Anita Bryant - dKosopoedia
		A former beauty queen and semi-popular recording star, Anita used her success as a commercial pitchwoman to declare war on gays and lesbians.
		Anita launched a national "Save Our Children" campaign; her vile and shrill child-molester rhetoric led to the repeal of civil rights ordinances in Dade County, Florida, and various other states, and a Florida ban on adoption by gays (Dade restored their ordinance in 1998; the adoption ban remains in place).
		For all Anita's confidence in the wrath of God, she was not quite prepared when that wrath was turned on her.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Anita_Bryant (203 words)

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		Bryant first appeared on stage at the age of 6, recorded her first record album at 16 and was named Miss Oklahoma and a Miss America runner-up in 1958.
		Bryant was voted "Most Admired Woman in America" three times by readers of Good Housekeeping magazine, and a Gallup poll said she was one of the top 10 most recognized women in the world.
		Bryant said she wants to minister in local churches as she did at First Redeemer, which will be broadcast on an upcoming segment of "There's Hope," Lee's broadcast ministry which is seen nationally on the Inspiration Network Wednesday evenings at 10 p.m.
	www.bpnews.net /storydownload.asp?ID=11447 (1815 words)

	The Task Force - The Issues (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These are the ominous words of Anita Bryant, former Florida orange juice beauty queen and the woman behind 'Save Our Children,' one of the most infamous antigay political campaigns in the history of the United States.
		Bryant's 1977 campaign to legalize discrimination against gays and lesbians in Miami Dade County relied upon the most base characterizations of gay and lesbian people - abnormal, limp-wristed, militant and deviant in nature, involved in sadistic sexual rituals, and abominable practices - and was hugely successful.
		It turns out that the right was right: from the days of Anita Bryant to turn of the millennium, the LGBT community lost more than two-thirds of antigay ballot measures every year, the vast majority of them repeals of basic nondiscrimination laws like the one targeted by Bryant in Miami-Dade County.
	www.thetaskforce.org /theissues/issue.cfm?issueID=29 (731 words)

	Talk:Anita Bryant - Conservapedia
		Bryant indeed felt "moved by her Christian faith" to do something, then that can and should be stated as a fact, so I don't see any reason to modify that particular passage.
		Bryant may be right or wrong (I myself am disinclined to agree with many of her stated views), but she is merely an entertainer-turned-social-activist, like so many Hollywood stars.
		This article is an attack on Anita Bryant, which assumes that homosexuality is neutral or benign and that Bryant supported "discrimination" against homosexuals.
	www.conservapedia.com /index.php?title=Talk:Anita_Bryant&printable=yes (1929 words)

	Legislative Search - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anita Bryant, a resident of 3 Savannah, Georgia, enrolled her son Kennick Bryant for Team 4 Basketball in the Georgia Southern University Summer 5 Athletic Camps in Statesboro, Georgia; and 6 WHEREAS, Ms.
		Bryant is a single mother with limited 18 resources and it is very difficult for her to pay her son's 19 medical expenses; and 20 WHEREAS, Ms.
		Bryant or her son, and it is only fitting 25 and proper that she be compensated for her loss.
	www.state.ga.us /services/leg/ShowBillPre.cgi?year=1999&filename=1999/HR811 (275 words)

	State: Bankruptcy, ill will plague Bryant
		Bryant would not be interviewed for this story, leaving Dry to speak for her.
		Bryant hit the A-list of American celebrities, touring with Bob Hope in Vietnam, singing at dinners in Lyndon Johnson's White House, singing at the Republican and Democratic conventions, singing at the 1976 Super Bowl, singing Battle Hymn of the Republic at Johnson's funeral in 1973.
		Bryant's fall from grace in the 1970s and her struggle to rebound in the 1980s are covered in her 1992 book, A New Day, billed as "a triumphant story of forgiveness, healing and recovery." Since then, she has continued to rise and fall in places like Pigeon Forge.
	www.stpetersburgtimes.com /2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml (2852 words)

	Anita Bryant
		In “Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins” we meet one of those families, the Poores, and their 15 year old son Horace who is growing up, coming out, and maybe most importantly, learning what it is to be an American during a dynamic time in the country’s history.
		Reading the plot summary of “Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins” you might expect a glum couple of hours, but the play is anything but depressing.
		It is a warmhearted and often funny study of a family strong enough to cope.
	www.playworksonline.org /projects/anitabryant/descript.htm (446 words)

	Arts & Sciences and Trinity College - Duke University : News : Administration : Anita-Yvonne Bryant
		The daughter and granddaughter of librarians (her father is a retired colonel in the Air Force), Bryant described herself as “a long-time book lover and curious by nature.” “I also like to really dig into things.
		Bryant explained: “The common parlance might be to call it a theoretical orientation.
		Bryant is a co-investigator, along with sociology Professors Kenneth Spenner and Claudia Buchmann, on “The Campus Life and Learning Project: A Longitudinal Study of Differential Educational Outcomes at Duke University.” Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the study is looking at disparities among the academic performance of different racial and ethnic groups.
	www.aas.duke.edu /news/administration/bryant.php (849 words)

	Anita Bryant Ministries International - About Us
		Miss Bryant was the longest-serving spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Growers, serving in that Capacity from 1968 to 1980 and became known as the Sunshine-Tree Girl.
		The image Anita created was good and it got her guaranteed income for her promotional efforts with Coca-Cola, which lasted for seven years, and she became the Coke girl to millions of radio listeners and TV views across the country as well as the Coca-Cola Bottlers’ favorite spokeswoman and performer.
		Anita Bryant was a phenomenon of the late seventies – an entertainer who was willing to stand up to the vilest and most scurrilous kind of public abuse for the sake of family, morality, simple decency, and the Word of God.
	www.anitabmi.org /3.html (4452 words)

	Anita Bryant
		Anita Bryant was a singer, beauty queen, and celebrity spokesperson who became best known for her work in favor of bigotry against gays and lesbians.
		Bryant's Old Testament activism drew many followers, and within a year the law was repealed, making it legal again to fire workers, deny people housing, or refuse their business based on how and with whom consenting adults have sex.
		She opened her own Anita Bryant Theater in Branson, Missouri, but ticket sales were weak, and Bryant relocated her stage show to an Arkansas tourist town, where she declared bankruptcy.
	www.nndb.com /people/177/000024105 (690 words)

	Houston Voice Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hill contends that it was the former runner-up Miss America who galvanized and empowered a gay and lesbian community that did not exist before she traveled to Houston on June 16, 1977 to sing to a bunch of lawyers.
		Bryant had evoked the ire of gay men and lesbians nationwide when she fought against a proposal in Miami, Florida to add sexual orientation to the city’s list of protected minorities in hiring and housing.
		Bryant emerged from the 1970s in financial trouble and in ruin as an entertainer.
	www.houstonvoice.com /print.cfm?content_id=1266 (881 words)

	Anita Bryant, 1977-1978
		One of the first spokeswomen for the new bigots was Anita Bryant, an orange juice saleswoman, former pop singer, and an early 1960s Miss America runnerup from Florida.
		Anita got her start when Miami, Florida considered adding sexual orientation to their list of protected minorities in hiring and housing.
		Anita had a real demeanor about her you just couldn't miss, and for about a year it seemed you couldn't turn around without hearing of some new antic from her or directed against her, for gay people were raging mad that she went after our rights.
	www.brumm.com /gaylib/anitabryant1977_1.html (300 words)

	Anita Bryant Goes Dancing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Singer Anita Bryant was "rather upset" when a photograph of her dancing with a minister was distributed, the minister said.
		Miss Bryant, 42, who opposed gay rights in Florida, was visiting friends in Atlanta when she and McCraw went dancing.
		A few years ago, Anita Bryant was receiving national attention (and often, ridicule) for some of the forthright moral stands she was taking.
	www.truthmagazine.com /archives/volume27/GOT027099.htm (410 words)

	Reviews
		Anita, Anita, Bryant affirms the centrality of her female protagonist’s position as an equal to her husband, Giuseppe Garibaldi, who has been described by historians as one of the foremost fighters for liberty in nineteenth-century Italy.
		Bryant’s novel is a brilliant revisioning of Anita Garibaldi’s life with her exile husband during the years 1835–1848.
		Bryant signifies the equality between Anita and Peppe by clarifying that each is the object of the other’s fascination and reverence: Peppe admits to Anita that he had watched her through his telescope at the top of the Barra, to which Anita responds: “I know.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /modlang/carasi/via/ViaVol5_1Reviews.htm (9319 words)

	Oh No Anita Bryant Page
		Anita Bryant organized a group called "Save Our Children," a campaign which was not against homosexuality per se, but on saving children from recruitment by homosexuals.
		A referendum was held, and the county's citizens voted to overturn the ordinance.
		Anita Bryant lost her job as spokesperson for Florida Orange Juice after activists organized a
	www.ohnonews.com /bryant.html (163 words)

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		Bryant was a runner-up in the 1958 Miss America Contest, a Southern Baptist, a gospel and pop singer, and she was spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission.
		It was also the first successful use of "child molestation tactic" by anti- gay forces and set the pattern of attack for remainder of Seventies and into Eighties.
		But, Bryant also is responsible for the first major national press the gay rights movement ever received in the United States.
	www.365gay.com /lifestylechannel/intime/months/06-June/AnitaBryant.htm (230 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Mariner: Anita Bryant Lives
		While its language was more guarded then Bryant's ever was, the court still, at bottom, relied on the same discriminatory rationale: that gay adoptive parents might create gay adoptive kids.
		But whereas O'Connor, in her opinion, concluded that Texas had no legitimate reason for its discriminatory restrictions, the Eleventh Circuit found that the Florida legislature might rationally conclude that gays, as a group, are less fit than heterosexuals to raise children.
		She invites comparisons between Anita Bryant (who once asserted that "If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards") and Justice Antonin Scalia.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/mariner/20040202.html (954 words)

	eBay - anita bryant lp, Records, Autographs-Original items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bryant, Anita: Battle Hymn of the Republic (Pop LP Viny
		Bryant, Anita: In Remembrance Of You (Pop LP Vinyl)
		Bryant, Anita: Kisses Sweeter than Wine (Pop LP Vinyl)
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	Anita Bryant: The Marilyn Musgrave of Yesteryear - AOL Video
		Anita Bryant and the "pie in the face" incident.
		Anita Bryant first became known to America in the late 1950s as a regular on the beau...
		Anita Bryant: "At Least It Was A Fruit P...
	video.aol.com /video-detail/anita-bryant-the-marilyn-musgrave-of-yesteryear/3461560158 (316 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Bryant Legacy Resurfaces in Fla.
		MIAMI, Sept. 6 -- Anita Bryant in all her frilly, 1970s bouffant glory smiles down from a record cover propped on a corner file cabinet of the election headquarters of the gay rights group SAVE Dade.
		Bryant is a mythic and reviled figure in this room, the orange juice spokeswoman and beauty queen who led a successful campaign 25 years ago to repeal a ground-breaking ordinance that prohibited discrimination against gays and lesbians in Dade County.
		Someone mentioned that Bryant used to sing there in the years before she moved from her mansion in Miami Beach.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A48132-2002Sep6?language=printer (874 words)

	Tulsa World: Celebration draws Anita Bryant back to Barnsdall
		Bryant's as busy as a weatherman during a tornado warning, and her voice sends anyone older than 40 straight back to those Florida orange juice commercials in the days when Walter Cronkite anchored the CBS Evening News.
		Bryant has faced her share of controversy since 1977, when, after almost 20 years of celebrity and admiration, she crashed into controversy by helping form the Save Our Children movement in Florida, a crusade against homosexuality and gay rights.
		For some reason, Anita Bryant's name came to my mind about 5 minutes ago and I have had fun reading about her courageous stand in Florida, and her having a road named after her in the town in which she was born and reared.
	www.tulsaworld.com /news/article.aspx?articleID=050528_Ne_A15_Celeb14440 (1228 words)

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