Anita Bryant Dies: Singer, Orange Juice Pitchwoman & Anti-Gay Campaigner Was 84

Deadline ^ | 1/9/25 | Greg Evans

[DesertRhino]

She sure turned out to be a prophet. People mocked her. Everything she warned us about has come to pass.

[Burma Jones]

People who were not wrong:
1. Enoch Powell
2. Anita Bryant

[fidelis]

Gay rights advocates organized a boycott of the singer and the juice, and in an instantly famous 1977 incident that would presage the subsequent decades’ theatrical protests of ACT-UP and Queer Nation, Bryant was hit in the face with a pie during a TV appearance in Des Moines, Iowa. She made a quip that used a derogatory term for gay people before bursting into tears on camera.

I remember seeing this on the TV news at the time. Her so-called "derogatory quip after getting hit with a pie in the face was, "At least it wasn't a fruit pie."

I always thought it was quite clever under the circumstances. Rest in peace, beautiful Anita.

[A strike]

“pervert supremacists’” = the gay/fag mafia

[A strike]

Tru Dat !!

[Trump_Triumphant]

She was a prophet. People laughed, but she’s been proven right.

[Fuzz]

‘ the gay/fag mafia’

It’s sick. Glitter everywhere.

[sopo]

“Bryant used homophobic tropes about recruitment of children and child molestation in a campaign that led to the ordinance’s repeal.” —unbiased?

[Trump_Triumphant]

And Joe McCarthy.

[Robwin]

Wow, did the letist/Gay Venom Squad do a job on her. It was disgusting.

God bless you, Anita, and rest in peace.

[Borges]

At this point if I see the word “trope” in an article, I give it the side eye.

[John Milner]

Me too. I thought she was already deceased.

[Responsibility2nd]

Unbiased? How is this unbiased?

Bryant used homophobic tropes about recruitment of children and child molestation in a campaign that led to the ordinance’s repeal.

[Fuzz]

‘ Unbiased? How is this unbiased?

Bryant used homophobic tropes about recruitment of children and child molestation in a campaign that led to the ordinance’s repeal.’

Did she not do that?

[odawg]

“Bryant used homophobic tropes about recruitment of children and child molestation...”

Do you really think that that sentence is unbiased?

Ever heard of Disney??

[Responsibility2nd]

This sentence clearly portrays Anita as homophobic. In other words she hated and was afraid of gays.

This sentence was used in a biased and pejorative manner.

Do you think she was homophobic? In a derogatory manner used by the leftists to insult you and I?

[Responsibility2nd]

Me too. And when we read Anita was homophobic - this entire article is biased. Against her.

[Fuzz]

Ah. Ok. The objection is to the term homophobic.

Got it.

She did do all those things though.

[Dawgreg]

RIP pretty lady. You will be remembered for your strength and bravery in taking a stand against a moral assault on this country that has spread in the worst way.......

[Jane Long]

I read it as she did connect homo activities to recruitment of children and child molestation.

Where’s the bias? The word homophobic?