The singer, entertainer and anti-gay activist also was known for her commercials touting Florida orange juice. Bryant was born March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma. "Her passion for music and ...

Then, in early 1977, Dade County, Florida — which includes Miami, where Bryant lived — gave its final approval to an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals. A group of ...

Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen and pop singer of the 1960s whose career led her to become a spokesperson for Florida oranges in the early ’70s and an evangelical crusader against gay rights ...

“I sold our family’s $300,000, 25-room Spanish-style home in Florida and decided I needed to move on in my life,” Bryant told me. “Besides my children, who are most important, everything ...