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Anita Bryant, the beauty queen and singer who pivoted in the '70s to became the most outspoken anti-gay activist in the U.S., has died at This list contains information about formerly anti-gay celebrities who switched sides, loosely ranked by fame and popularity. Last Updated: May 27, On October 14, , while speaking at an event in Iowa to promote her campaign to roll back anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ people, Anita Bryant is hit in the face with a pie.

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In Bryant's home state of Florida, in particular, recent so-called "Don't Say Gay" legislation and pushes for "parental rights" recall Bryant's rhetoric in the s. Gay bars began boycotting orange juice; instead of screwdrivers, they served "Anita Bryants," urging patrons to "squeeze a fruit for Anita.

By , Bryant lost her job as spokeswoman for Florida orange juice, her singing career stalled and she divorced her husband. On October 14, , German Gen. He chooses the latter. The young Hitler was drafted for Austrian military service but turned down due to lack of fitness; while living […].

At the end of the bloody, all-day battle, Harold was killed—shot in the eye with an arrow, according to legend—and his forces were destroyed. Although not […]. Higgins was not alone in protesting Bryant's speaking tour. Bryant's organized opposition succeeded in repealing those protections.

She was also a pop singer, and performed at the halftime show of Super Bowl V in She gained national notoriety as a political campaigner in when she took a stand against a local ordinance in Dade County, Florida, where she lived with her husband and children. The legacy of her brief political career lives on in continued attempts to block or roll back civil rights for LBGTQ Americans.

Before a campaign speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt is shot at close range by saloonkeeper John Schrank while greeting the public in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel. After Bryant successfully repealed the ordinance in Dade County, she went on a tour to promote similar campaigns across the country.

Anita Bryant was undoubtedly a star in the s. Backlash against her crusade inspired large protests in cities like Houston , and galvanized the gay rights movement. He played the victim in the movie of the same name. The ordinance forbade discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in housing and employment.

Bryant was an American household name before she made headlines for her anti-gay political activism. That continued into the early s, as well, and could very likely have lasted into the s had Bryant not made the decision to throw her entire self behind anti-gay activism.

Several famous actors, musicians, and politicians have changed their tunes on gay marriage. Anti-LGBTQ Activism And The Downfall Of Anita Bryant. Bryant appealed to Christian values and motherhood in her anti-gay campaign, which she called "Save our Children.

Future president Dwight D. Eisenhower is born in Denison, Texas on October 14, After graduating from West Point in , Eisenhower embarked on a stellar military career—he would eventually become the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II and the leader of the invasion of Normandy in June Following the […].

She considered homosexuality to be "deviant" and " an abomination of God ," and therefore dangerous and unworthy of anti-discrimination protections. The book was the first collection of Holmes stories, which Conan Doyle had been publishing in magazines since Conan Doyle was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he met Dr.

Joseph Bell, a teacher […]. Bryant quipped, "at least it's a fruit pie," before praying for Higgins's soul and breaking into tears. The movie, Victim, was at the forefront of films that explored homosexuality and said to be the first film to speak the term.