Anita Bryant, who has died aged 84, was a 1960s pop singer, former beauty queen and “brand ambassador” for the Florida Citrus Commission who became a conservative icon and liberal hate figure in the ...
Anita Bryan founded Save Our Children, an anti-gay organization that gave rise to the modern-day religious right's strategy of tying homosexuality to perceived threats against children.
Bryant, a multi-Grammy nominated singer, beauty queen and Florida Orange Juice pitchwoman , passed away at her home in Oklahoma on Dec. 16. She was 84 ...