Anita Bryant

Just keep this in a loop whenever you feel enraged by a homophobe. It's soothing.

Like all the scamgelicals, she’s probably making a comeback now and will have a new “non-profit” raising money to fight discrimination against conservative religious straight white women

I married a lovely gal named Gus. Embraced flannel. We are very happy on our hemp farm outside Eureka. Thanks for asking.

The part she cries is a masterpiece. hahahahaha Cunt, take that pie!

She now lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, and says she does charity work for various youth organizations while heading Anita Bryant Ministries

Probably still hates our guts when the synapses between random gray cells still do their jobs. Otherwise everything is blissful.

Saw these three on her wiki page:

Bryant's likeness is portrayed by a drag performer in the comedic play, Anita Bryant's Playboy Interview, which premiered in 2016 in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

Bryant is a frequently portrayed character at drag shows across the United States.

Bryant is the subject of the musical The Loneliest Girl in the World, book and lyrics by Gordon Leary and music by Julia Meinwald, which had its World Premiere run at Diversionary Theatre in San Diego May 24 - July 1, 2018

I liked Anita Bryant when I was a kid growing up. Saw her on TV a lot. She seemed friendly, perky, and animated, almost like a brunette version of Doris Day.

I was horrified when she started the infamous anti-gay campaign and wondered what happened to the formerly nice lady.

Very sad case of a good girl gone bad.

There's a script about her life floating around for some time now. For a while Uma Thurman was attached to star in it. Maybe it's time they finally make this movie.

The nice Anita back in the day.

True story. I went to an evangelical Christian school in the late 70s/early 80s. In fourth grade, we had to do a report on, and oral presentation - dressed as - someone you admire. We had Einstein, Joe Namath (I went as Laura Ingalls Wilder) and a classmate did Anita Bryant!

I get Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schlafly confused.

A recent photo. She looks like Sarah Palin's grandmother.

Andrew Cunanan is said to be obsessed with her and supposedly she was his next target after Versace. Can you imagine how great that could have been?

She did Coca-Cola commercials before she became the orange juice spokesbot.

[quote]She did Coca-Cola commercials before she became the orange juice spokesbot.

Bitch.

So full of hate. She really screwed up her life by attacking the gays. Lost her orange juice contract and got a divorce. Now I think she plays Branson and county fairs.

In some respects, she did us a favor. She brought us together to fight her hate and those of the day.

Branson, r16? Too bad she wasn't on the sunken duck boat.

She looks like a tranny in that image at R12

I was only a few years old when this happened. What's the back story on what got her so hyped up about us and to start a national campaign.

that pie in the face was hilarious although a bit sad when she started crying, but she was a clown so it fit her well.

time for immediate prayer!

r17 - I agree, she was galvanizing. But she wasn't ready for the shit storm she started and she was totally unprepared for the overwhelming negative reaction she received. She handled herself and poorly and both she and her husband looked foolish. I think her husband was the one behind the whole fiasco. He thought their anti-gay crusade would make them both heroes.

The pie was too kind, someone should have slapped her silly!

Who cares if she cried? She sucks as a human being. And doesn’t she owe a ton of money to people from her theater in Branson??? Twat.

Her whole work life since has been of the Christo-Publican "Fleece the Flock" variety. Every venture she and her scammy husband touched has gone belly up, and she's old and broke, and will die that way!

I couldn't be happier!

Oh - I forgot about that r24. She didn't do so well at Branson. But thankfully she was inept. If she had of been organized she could have caused so real problems for the gays. This was just before the AIDS epidemic and there was a lot of fear and loathing going around.

[quote]I think her husband was the one behind the whole fiasco.

Then he got what he deserved. After the divorce he lived out the rest of his life as a lonely bitter fuck.

She looks like a big dyke.

r5 she lives in Edmond, Oklahoma?! Ugh.

I love how they're all like "Let's pray for him now". If he was a DLer he'd be like, "FUCK YOUR PRAYERS! BLOCKED!"

R22 Actually, Anita's husband was initially NOT in favor of her campaign. He thought it to be too controversial and possibly damage her career. He tried to talk her out of it.

There were rumors that her first husband had strong gay tendencies. Some gay men claim that they saw him in gay cruising areas. After they divorced, he lived alone and never got married again. Their son said that his life was kind of sad.

Anita's (first) husband, Bob Green.

Their son stated that he sat her down after every musical performance and told her every mistake she had made in the show. It was like a form of resentment.

Anita herself admitted after their divorce that they had both been unfaithful to each other.

I can still remember sitting in the kitchen at home reading the local paper and seeing a story which said that the Florida orange juice commission had decided to not renew her endorsement contract due to the bad publicity she'd generated. It made my day.

I was in Florida (Tampa area) at the time of the controversy and the threatened orange juice boycott. Bryant was also doing commercials for some local bank chain (I can't remember the name). You couldn't turn on any of the local television stations without seeing one of them. I don't know whether the banks dumped her as well. Just a bit of trivia. For a while there, though, she was probably raking in the bucks.

Bryant and her 2nd husband moved around the country running scams and fleeing in the night leaving creditors and employees unpaid; for years until she ended up back in Oklahoma. She's common crooked trash.

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Bryant married her second husband, Charlie Hobson Dry, in 1990. The couple tried to reestablish her music career in a series of small venues, including Branson, Missouri, and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, where they opened Anita Bryant's Music Mansion. The establishment combined Bryant's performances of her successful songs from early in her career with a "lengthy segment in which she preached her Christian beliefs." The venture was not successful and the Music Mansion, which had missed meeting payrolls at times, filed for bankruptcy in 2001 with Bryant and Dry leaving behind a series of unpaid employees and creditors.

Bryant also spent part of the 1990s in Branson, Missouri, where the state and federal governments both filed liens claiming more than $116,000 in unpaid taxes. Bryant and Dry had also filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Arkansas in 1997 after piling up bills from a failed Anita Bryant show in Eureka Springs, a tourist area in northwest Arkansas. Among the debts were more than $172,000 in unpaid state and federal taxes.

You can see from the pic at r12 that after beginning her crusade, she never got another good haircut....

I used to have an "I Slept With Anita Bryant's Husband" button.

DL Fave Kathie Lee Gifford worked as a live-in secretary/babysitter for Miss Bryant.

The Downfall of Anita Bryant

video: 4 minute Inside Edition peport on how her anti-gay crusade destroyed her career and drove her to the brink of suicide.

Break out the popcorn to watch!

Oh, I remember when KL Gifford got in trouble about some Central American slave factory she owned. She almost burst into tears and said she was being persecuted because she had been Anita Bryant's secretary.

Interesting about the possibly gay first husband and the "infidelities" on both side. I guess we're supposed to love the sinner but hate the sin, esp. if its a grfting "Christian" celeb.

I thought she died years ago.

Amazon is going to do a movie about her.

Can they make the ending where she is chased through an abandoned factory by an axe wielding maniac until she finally falls into a meat grinder that the maniac activates?

She should just do Mrs. Lovett in Branson, r43. The joy of seeing her getting shoved into the oven nightly would be enormous.

R1 Pity he didn't have a bottle of acid.

Here is a recent article in which her son is interviewed and answers many questions.

r46 - very interesting interview. thanks a lot !!

From R46's post interview: "Robert Green Jr.: I guess that they were hateful. I remember in the heat of the controversy going into a shop with my mom… [a man] came over and shook her hand and said he backed what she was doing and basically said "I hate fags, too." She immediately set him straight about that, that she did not hate anyone. That wasn't the point for her about what she was trying to do."

Why does the religious rights always con itself into thinking they don't actually hate gays?

I remember, at the time, my grandmother (farm wife, quit school at 16, went through the Depression, never traveled - not what you'd call politically savvy) commented: "Why doesn't she just mind her own business and be quiet?"

[quote] If she had of been organized

Oh, dear!

I love you, R36!

And R49, your grandma may not have been “book smart,” but she was a smart woman.

Anita is still on the warpath!

I do think people forget her comeback too easily "At least it was a fruit pie". She gave as good as she got in that case.

Kathie Lee Gifford keeps telling everyone how she doesn't agree with her stance on gays but she's a loyal friend. What an idiot.

She's doubled down then, and still thinks "The Gays" are against Jesus?

She would have to believe that now, R54. She’s getting to the age where she’s studying for her final exam. *wink*

R53 Kathy Lee is still friends and is in contact with Anita?

I thought that relationship was over.

What's the news on Anita's gay son? I don't know if I'm remembering this correctly but wasn't he working for his mother and pretending he'd been "cured" by baby jebus?

OK listen up young gaylings, that pie in the face may seem silly but look at all the good it did. I say embrace the pie and start pie holing your favorite public hater. The punishment if they catch you will last a day, their humiliation on film will last a lifetime.

R56 She still kept in contact with Harvey Weinstein & Bill Cosby (probably her sweat shop people as well).

She LOVES evildoers.

I wonder if one of her kids were gay or if her daughter was violated by Harvey/Bill would she be so forgiving?

She's also a republican but does her best to avoid politics in the public arena.

KLG has been on the 700 Club plenty of times over the years with her "dear friend Pat" so of course she's still pals with Anita.

Fuck her.

Chumbawamba's song "Just Desserts" (album released on 6-8-04) was about Anita Bryant & her anti-gay crusade.

The Dead Kennedys - Moral Majority

I always thought that Linda Lovelace looked a lot like Anita Bryant.

A writer for Playboy was preparing an article on Bryant and was present for the notorious pie attack.

Afterwards, he rode in a car with Bryant and Green, and examined the box that had contained the pie.

Guess how much the pie cost?

69 cents.

Anyone know who the pie thrower was and where is he now?

GREAT question, R64!

I hope someone knows.

The pie thrower was a gay rights activist. He threw his hands up after the pie because he wanted her husband to hit him but he didn't go for it.

Ha ha. Crying Pie Face!!!

You can clearly hear someone saying to let the pie thrower remain at the press conference. Strange that there was never any follow up and interview with him.

Or was there?

Her husband didn’t seem to give a shit about the pie.

Perhaps he was enjoying a secret moment of Schadenfreude

Thom Higgins died in 1994, 44 years of age.

Was Thomas Higgins the pie thrower?

The “fruit pie” comeback does suggest a sharp wit.

I am guessing that the movie, if it ever materializes, will play like a comedy, but I’d do approach the whole thing seriously, to get at her motivations and to really show how real and pervasive that attitude was - and in places still is.

I wonder who could play her not as a joke. Uma Thurman is totally wrong. They should settle on someone who has a very likeable presence, to bring out the discord in her politics and the disappointment in the people who’d admired her.

It would make a really great movie, but not as caricature like Allison Janney in I, Tonya.

It’s comedy from an easy angle, but it’s a multifaceted tragedy if they’re willing to take it on.

The pie thrower must have died from AIDS. Did Anita say a prayer for him?

Great interview at r46.

I even think that a limited series might be a great showcase for this story, focusing not only on her, but the gay and lesbian people affected by her movement, and how they elected to respond or not respond. It would be more Focused and personal than a big Stonewall movie or that network series that tanked.

We’ve undergone such a radical change in the past two decades that I think documenting life as it was is more important than ever.

Didn’t need to, R73:

[quote]He became one of the four Archons (ministers) in the Church of the Chosen People, which advocated homosexuality as a "healthy and fulfilling personal option."

*Eye roll*

I LOVE the gays! Dearly. I don’t know what I’m going to do when I die and go to heaven and there’s none of you people around to do my hair anymore.

I will never forget Kathie Lee Gifford talking to a large audience of Christians. She got up on the stage and told them that if they truly loved God then they wouldn't hate homosexuals. It was very touching the way she said it. She didn't have to but she did anyway and my respect for her went up quite a bit.

I see Carrie Underwood as Anita in her major crossover breakout

I have to give her credit for the very pithy comeback....

Well maybe she liked fruit pie. I don' want to give her credit for being pithy. She's lived a selfish and hateful life ...

Here's the live '84 version of the song at R61.

There's a longer version of this video on Youtube where you see the husband actually went after the guys and threw the other pie back at him. So much for non-violence stance. Typical religious freak hypocrisy.

She loved fruit pies and was being unfunny and honest.

Back then fruits weren't a pseudonym for "the gays", which they called "homosexuals" because it sounds worse and makes people think of sex. Fruit has fiber and is tasty so she wouldn't have associated it with the gays, which in private she called "cuntbotherers" because her pussy hurt when she thought about it. She didn't realize her OBGYN was gay and secretly sprayed her nether areas with itching cream every time she visited, which was often because she had a problem with cucumbers getting stuck down there. Each time she claimed she was making a salad and slipped and fell, but Dr. Michael knew she was lying.

Every time I see a banana cream pie in the grocery store, I always think of Anita Bryant. LOL

I'm surprised she's still alive. Haven't heard of her in years.

Anita Bryant’s stained panty liners used to fall out at public events. They were always stained with feces and discharge. People thought she was Nanette Fabray and sold them to autograph stores. $10 extra for cunt hair on it.

Her crusade backfired in New Orleans, which was home to many Southern gays and lesbians in the 1970s. The gay community there never had a "Stonewall" moment, but Bryant giving a concert just outside the French Quarter got people organizing fast. They even stopped serving orange juice in many gay bars in the city and had a rally and march that showed the power of the nascent gay movement.

According to this article, organizers expected a couple of hundred people. They got 10 times that many to protest Anita.

[quote]The success of the rally energized the LGBT community in New Orleans and also served as a harbinger of the shift in public attitudes toward homosexuality. Similar protests were held in other cities where Bryant performed, and as a result, the backlash caused the Florida Citrus Commission to drop her as its spokesperson.

And from that day on, she has never drunk orange juice again!

She never really recovered after that pie incident.

More pies should be face planted. Can someone pleas catch Sarah Huckabee off guard. Preferably at a restaurant. Pics please and I will pay for the pie.

I’d like to see her get hit in the face with a hair pie.

Stupid fucking “Christian” cunt.

Does anyone know the details of the guy who did it or how he got past security? Aspiring pie facers want to know.

Yeah, once again it's bizarre that the pie thrower didn't appear on every talk show in existence after the incident.

r92 -"security" was probably just a couple of rent-a-cops wandering around. From the posts above it doesn't even sound like the guy who threw the pie got arrested. I guess he just walked away and went to a bar to celebrate. Bravo !!!

R93 - Because they would t have had him.

The public on the whole wasn’t comfortable with Anita Bryant’s crusade, but they weren’t comfortable with gay men either.

There was no welcoming couch on Ellen in 1978.

Closeted Merc Griffin, squeaky-clean Mike Douglas, and genial Johnny Carson wouldn’t have touched this.

Phil Donahue, yes. That’s it. Forty years ago was a different world.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the substitute organist at her church. She also used to be the rehearsal pianist for the auditions for the Ladies Annual Bean and Salad Dinner. She would let drag queens audition as long as they didn’t sing “Stay With Me” or “Purlie”

r93, the year this happened, we were still in the shadows. Unless you had a gay family member, most folks were clueless. I was femme from birth, but it was never discussed. I dated girls in HS. Finally, a cute guy put the moves on me, and I had my first gay sex. Then it all came to me. The only STD I ever had was crabs. I was a total top, so I survived the AIDS plague. I feel lucky to be alive, even at 64.

R97 = David DeLuise

I used to work with her son, though I didn't know it at the time. Decent guy; quiet; intelligent. That was a good interview at R46; I originally found it after I left that company, which was when I somehow discovered "who" he was. (It wasn't common knowledge at work.)

While it's true the pie thrower might not have been invited on the talk show circuit (except for Phil Donahue, though he wasn't), I still think it's odd that The Today Show or Good Morning America wouldn't have interviewed him.

In hindsight, it's amazing that his name is not known in Gay History. I know that probably sounds hyperbolic, yet.....

between she and her ex husband unpaid federal taxes, bankrupcy, both were unfaithful while marred, divorce, she accused him of emotional abuse........they both ended up bitter at what the gays did to them quote unquote............her exhusband use to jog past their former miami beach mansion which they had to sell and cry all the way home 20 years later.................how pathetic and they both got what they deserved. The only thing that would have been even sweeter is if one of their kids had turned out to be gay. Perhaps they would have been much better off concentrating on bettering their own lives rather than to try and take away somebody else s liberties and rights.

Wow - the first husband really was a boob. i wonder if he was crying about the mansion or his missing his supposedly great life with Anita. What a retard. And if their kid was gay I'm sure it would have been conversion therapy (or worse)

Does anyone buy orang juice anymore in those little frozen canisters of concentrate?

John Waters should’ve done a film about Anita Bryant. It would’ve been hilarious.

Her initial argument was that she didn't want flamboyant homosexuals teaching kids. She said she doesn't know who's gay unless they self identify. She was on Donahue and he asked if she would have any problem if there were a gay teacher who never said anything about his/her sexuality (i.e. closeted) and she shot back defensively that that wasn't a fair question and didn't answer.

And she was also very clear about wanting to reclaim the word "gay" from homosexuals.

I guess she won out in the end. Now we have an orange president.

[quote] Pity he didn't have a bottle of acid.

She would have become a martyr, which would be too good for her. The fate she got is exactly what she deserved.

WTF, R96???? Does anyone understand that???

She is a cunt. I hope that after she dies, they stick a long wooden pole up her ass or pussy and parade her corpse around and then vandalize it like they did to Mussolini and his mistress after they were killed.

Someone with a personality that seems likeable on the surface, such as J Law or Emma Stone, would have to play her in the movie.

[quote]Wow - the first husband really was a boob.

Better than my first husband (for reasons germane to this thread).

[quote]Was Thomas Higgins the pie thrower?

Ed and Eunice's boy? Well, I never!

That tickled me so, R113!

W&W for you!

r112 likable but with a hard edge. Joan Crawford would have been perfect. Jude Law would be great if he doesn't mind wearing a dress. If the movie is made after she dies the director can take lots of artistic liberties. Sadly she's only 78 and from Oklahoma and those ladies live forever !!

[quote] Does anyone buy orang juice anymore in those little frozen canisters of concentrate?

I never see those in the supermarket anymore. Maybe I've missed them.

Maybe not all markets carry. I occasionally buy lemon juice concentrate for mixed drinks. I still buy orange juice concentrate if I'm roasting a duck (not very often). I really don't drink orange juice anymore unless it's fresh squeezed. What a change. When I was younger I drank daily - it was always in my fridge. Now I don't even drink monthly - too much sugar. .

[quote] I occasionally buy lemon juice concentrate for mixed drinks.

I've never seen lemon juice concentrate -- just lemonade concentrate.

Hadn’t thought of Bryant for years, though as a Chicagoan, I remember that interesting interview with her son posted upthread.

I’d forgotten she was a Miss America contestant, and was surprised to see the pageant in which she competed is available on YouTube. Don’t judge me, but I couldn’t resist checking out the portions featuring Bryant and the eventual winner, Mary Ann Mobley. My takeaway? Bryant is lovely (and it pains me to say that, since I find her vile) and has a lovely singing voice. But her song choice is bland and forgettable. Mobley exhibits more natural charm, and her song was MUCH more memorable.

Wasn't 1959 also the year Dawn Wells was Miss Nevada?