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Anita Bryant
In 1977, singer Anita Bryant began spearheading the “Save Our Children” campaign, which aimed to repeal a Dade County, Florida, ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. The campaign was successful, and was heartily condemned by members of the same-sex attracted community and their allies.
On August 19, 1977, Bryant attended the Miss National Teenager Pageant, which was held in Atlanta. Bryant was invited to be present at as she had been voted “America’s Great American” by the contestants. Protesters took to the streets in opposition.
Bryant Returns to Atlanta
Bryant returned to Atlanta in June of 1978, to serve as keynote speaker at the Southern Baptist Convention. Almost 2,000 protesters – members of the LGBT+ communities as well as allies – picketed at the Georgia World Congress Center.
InlateJanuary, Robert Green Jr. start himself back where he started more than 30 years ago--trying to reconcile the parents he knew with the public image they created, an image he fled and largely avoided for decades. Green Jr. is the oldest son of famous anti-gay crusaders Anita Bryant and Bob Green, who battled the Dade County, Fla., ordinance banning discrimination against gay people and won in 1977. On Jan. 26, Green Sr. died at the age of 80, after suffering kidney failure. Read more on Windy Metropolis Times Advertisement HuffPost Shopping's Newsletter Autograph Up The Morning Email Wake up to the day's most important news. Sign up for HuffPost's Morning Email. Successfully Signed Up! Realness delivered to your inbox By entering your email and clicking Write Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The way Anita Bryant told it, she didn’t hold a choice but to build a nationwide antigay movement. Her 1977 publication The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Nation’s Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality begins: “Because of my love for Almighty God, because of my like for His Word, because of my love for my country, because of my love for my children, I took a stand—one that was not popular.” When Bryant took that stand, and became the public face of the activist group Save Our Children, she created a template that the American right wing is still following today. She also became the enemy that gay rights leaders needed to build a nationwide movement of their own. Bryant, who died of cancer last month at the age of 84, first became known as a beauty queen—Miss Oklahoma, and then the second runner-up for Miss America 1959—and a pop singer, crooning the Top 10 hits “Paper Roses” and “In My Little Corner of the World.” But it was her TV ads for orange juice—featuring her own children, a cartoon bird, and a
Sarah Green said she came out to her grandmother, anti-gay rights crusader Anita Bryant, on her 21st birthday. After Bryant, a famed singer and devout Christian, sang Green "Happy Birthday," she told her a husband would be in her future. "And I just snapped and was like, 'I hope that he doesn't come along because I'm gay, and I don't want a man to come along,'" Green said on an episode of Slate's podcast "One Year." That's when Green said her grandmother told her homosexuality doesn't exist. Bryant, who was also a beauty queen and orange juice ambassador, became a vocal anti-gay speaker in Miami in 1977. In her speeches, Bryant would say organism gay was a decision and a sin to rally audiences against queer-friendly legislation, the Washington Share reported. Now 81, Bryant lives in a world where gay marriage is legal, and her granddaughter is planning her own nuptials with another woman. When Green came out to Bryant, Bryant told her to attention on
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“One of the unique things about march is that there were a number of straight people walking with us, and I reflect of a lot of them, it was the first time that they had in fact stood by us. And some of them spoke out at the rally.”
Anne Fauvre, From Stonewall to the Millenium Panel, June 2000
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