Thom Higgins is credited for coining the term “gay pride.” He also earned national headlines when he threw a pie in anti-gay ...

Anita Bryant, the godmother of modern anti-LGBTQ+ moral panics, died on December 16, 2024 at the age of 84, so it’s finally time that we eulogize her life’s most meaningful accomplishment ...

Des Moines: Singer-evangelist Anita Bryant covers her face after being hit with a pie by a man posing as a reporter during a news conference in Des Moines 10/14. She was in Des Moines to appear at ...

During a 1977 event in Iowa, where Anita spoke out against gay rights, she was famously hit in the face with a pie by a man named Tom Higgins, who was a gay rights activist. Although at the time ...

I never agreed with the views of Anita Bryant (“Anita Bryant, singer who became known for opposition to gay rights, 84,” Obituaries, Jan. 11), but the photo of her with a protester’s pie in ...

In October 1977, at a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa, a demonstrator walked up to Bryant and pushed a banana cream pie into her face. “At least it was a fruit pie,” Bryant ad-libbed.

The Advocate’s headline: “Another Pie in the Face for Anita Bryant: Her Granddaughter Is Gay.” But Sarah’s sexual orientation isn’t some kind of karmic gotcha.

Anita Bryant Dry, known popularly ... in which writer and gay rights activist Thom L. Higgins hit her in the face with a pie. (Original Caption) Des Moines: Entertainer-evangelist Anita Bryant, ...

Former beauty queen and 1960s pop singer-turned anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant has died, according to a family obituary published in her hometown newspaper, the Oklahoman. Bryant died Dec. 16 in ...

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 popular singer and product pitchwoman in the 1960s and ’70s who successfully destroyed both those aspect of her career by becoming the public, and very loud, face of a 1977 ...

Anita Bryant Dry, known popularly as ... in which writer and gay rights activist Thom L. Higgins hit her in the face with a pie. (Original Caption) Des Moines: Entertainer-evangelist Anita Bryant, ...