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, ...

John Wayne was left very emotional on the set of 1970 movie Chisum after his co-star introduced him to a new passion that the ...

Anita Bryant, an entertainer who was commended by the Southern Baptist Convention for standing up to the gay rights movement ...

Anita Bryant, the singsongy beauty queen who spun her folksy Oklahoma charm into a career hawking orange juice and campaigning against gay rights, died last month at 84. When the news broke on ...

Anita Bryant, an Oklahoma singer and anti-gay rights activist, has died at the age of 84. Bryant died at her Edmond home on Dec. 16, but her death wasn’t announced until her family published an ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, Grammy-nominated singer and prominent booster of orange juice and other products who became known over the second half of her life for her ...

She was a singer and entertainer who became ... The following year, she released this pop single. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PAPER ROSES") ANITA BRYANT: (Singing) Paper roses. Paper roses.