The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice was an all-American entertainer before she began crusading ...

Anita Bryant, born on March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, is an American singer, beauty queen, and controversial figure in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights. Raised in a devout Southern Baptist family, ...

Anita Bryant Dry, entertainer and anti-gay activist, died in December at her Edmond home, according to an obituary submitted by her family. She was 84.

NEW YORK — Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who ... Bryant was a Barnsdell native who began singing at an early age and was just 12 when she hosted her own local television show ...

She was blacklisted and got a raw deal, but like her or not, she stuck to her convictions,” Anthony Verdugo, founder and ...

Along with Orville Redenbacher, Marie Osmond, Phyllis Diller and Chubby Checker, Anita Bryant ranked as one of my first ...

Anita Bryant, a Grammy-nominated singer and former beauty ... As an adult, her career in music blossomed, with Bryant singing ...

Anita Bryant, a popular singer and product pitchwoman in the 1960s and ’70s who successfully destroyed both those aspect of ...

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 — ...

A Grammy nominee whose pair of Top 10 hits and show business career was overwhelmed in the public eye by her anti-gay ...

Anita Bryant, a beauty queen ... Beginning in 1968, Ms. Bryant starred in popular commercials that featured her singing a catchy jingle, “Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree,” and perkily ...

Anita Bryant at her home in Miami Beach ... making double entendres about queens and singing about a promised land that’s “bright and gay,” and Tim Conway as a character who looked and ...