Anita Bryant

Catching Up With Bob Green And Anita Bryant's Son

Windy City Times | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: LGBT Rights, Robert Green Jr, Anita Bryant, Gay Rights, Gay Discrimination, Bob Green, Dade County, Gay Voices News

In late January, Robert Green Jr. found himself back where he started more than 30 years ago--trying to reconcile the parents he knew with the public ...

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Anti-Gay Bigot Dies As Resentful As He Lived

James Peron | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Anita Bryant, Bob Green, Bob Green Anita Bryant, Bob Green Dead, Anita Bryant Bob Green, Anita Bryant Husband, Bob Green Death, Gay Voices News
James Peron

Bob Green is dead. Most people have no idea who he was. You can't blame them. He was just a speed bump on the road toward equality of rights. Behind the scenes, however, he played an important role in creating the "culture war" that still plagues this nation.

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Anita Bryant Wants A Gay Best Friend

Posted 01.03.2012

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Here's something you don't hear everyday (or even every century): Anita Bryant wants a gay best friend. E!'s Marc Malkin reports Bryant recently me...

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Prop 8 Ruling One Year Later: Pulling Back the Curtain on the Right's Dirty Tricks

Rick Jacobs | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Prop 8 Trial, Prop 8, Rick Jacobs, Judge Ware, Olson, Anita Bryant, Judge Walker, Courage Campaign, Charles Cooper, Boies, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

A year ago today, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker overturned Prop 8. I thought the war had finally been won. We were elated. It was truly justice done. But as with so much else, it was also justice unfinished.

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Disco 2.0

Mark Coleman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taio Cruz, Saturday Night Fever, Save Our Children, Equal Rights, Jimmy Carter, Lady Gaga Born This Way, Anita Bryant, Music, Tea Party, Obama Carter, Dick Cheney, Style News
Mark Coleman

Apparently we are a nation comfortable with paradox: our increasingly conservative politics coexist with a popular culture more uninhibited than ever. Or are we? Can the center hold?

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Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown: the Anita Bryant and John Briggs of 2011

Fred Karger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Reagan, National Organization for Marriage, John Briggs, Fred Karger, Maine-Ethics, Anita Bryant, Maggie Gallagher, Brian Brown, Politics News
Fred Karger

I am a Republican with a long and proud Republican History. I worked as a GOP political consultant and advisor for over 30 years. I was a senior c...

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The Unreal L Word

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matthew Shephard, L Word, Jersey Shore, Sex and the City, Anita Bryant, Real L Word, Showtime, Harvey Milk, Ellen's Coming Out Episode, Stonewall, AIDs Epidemic, Entertainment News
Joan E. Dowlin

The Real L Word may reflect today's anything-goes philosophy, but as a meaningful dialogue about gay issues, tolerance, and human rights, it falls way short.

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I Saw Elvis in His Coffin

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

When Elvis fell off a toilet and straight into rock'n'roll heaven, I was the reporter the paper called to drive up to Memphis to cover it. But I didn't want to go.

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Regarding Miss California, At Least Anita Bryant Could Sing

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miss USA, Proposition 8, Perez Hilton, Carrie Prejean, Miles McPherson, The Rock Church, Anita Bryant, Nom, Joy Behar, Maggie Gallagher, Susan Boyle, Miss California, Stephen Baldwin, Rev. Nicole Lamarche, Shanna Moakler, Gay Marriage, Rex Wockner, Living, Entertainment News, Media News, Politics News
Michael Rowe

Carrie Prejean has become a sort of anti-Susan Boyle. It isn't just that she's a bigot, per se. There is no shortage of bigots. They just usually don't wear tiaras.

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When Beauty Queens Turn Ugly

Lady Bunny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miss America, Gay Rights, Carrie Prejean, Miss Beverly Hills, Miss-Beverly-Hills-Homosexuals, Fox News, Anita Bryant, Lauren Ashley, Beauty Queen, Media News
Lady Bunny

I call for a boycott of all things Fox. It worked on Florida orange juice. Think I'm overreacting? Leave your gay-friendly, big city bubble for a minute.

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Anita Bryant HBO Biopic In Development

Hollywood Reporter | Posted 05.25.2011

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HBO is developing a biopic of former beauty queen, singer and celebrity pitchwoman Anita Bryant, who is known mostly for her work as an anti-gay activ...

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Voting on Equal Rights is a National Disgrace

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glbt, Briggs Initiative, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Prop 8, Civil Rights, Lesbian, National Organization for Marriage, Maine Gay Marriage, Truth Wins Out, Referendum, Anita Bryant, Gay, Wayne Besen, California, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Wayne Besen

With a record of 0-31 in marriage initiatives, now may be a good opportunity to review our complicity in a process that doles out or strips away basic rights by majority vote.

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The Campaign: The Audacity of Hope Did Not Die in Maine

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, The CAMPAIGN, Lgbt, Proposition 8, Twitter, Christie Herring, Lesbian, San Francisco. Maine, Anita Bryant, Gay, Gay Marraige, Briggs Initiative, Gay Rights, Human Rights, Transgender, Bisexual, Mississippi, Love, Cailifornia, Obama, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

Was it bigotry that defeated gay marriage in Maine and California, or was it ignorance? Films like The Campaign, about the fight for gay rights, require our attention and our support.

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Why the Florida Gay Adoption Ban Is Immoral

Carlos A. Ball | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carlos A. Ball

The ACLU is back in court in Florida challenging the constitutionality of that state's thirty-year old law which prohibits lesbians and gay men from adopting.

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Carrie Prejean, Let's Talk About Milk

Anna Wainwright | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miss USA, Anita Bryant, Gay Rights, Carrie Prejean, Gay Marriage, Harvey Milk, National Organization for Marriage, Donald Trump, Politics News
Anna Wainwright

Prejean might want to take a brief look at Milk and think about how her legacy will hold up over the long haul. It is not the hero of that movie she resembles. No offense intended.

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Where is Harvey Milk Today?

Ari Bendersky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Change, Proposition 8, Gay Rights, Prop 8, Anita Bryant, Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn, Same Sex Marriage, Harvey Milk, San Francisco, Civil Rights, George Moscone, Chicago News
Ari Bendersky

Watching the film on the 30th anniversary of Milk's tragic and unnecessary death ... I was reminded that while we've come far, we really haven't gotten anywhere.

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Giving Thanks For Harvey Milk

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Proposition 6, Gus Van Sant, Thanksgiving, Anita Bryant, Harvey Milk, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Kerry Trueman

The most poignant aspect of Milk is that the story it tells -- of the fight against ignorance and intolerance -- is, unlike the hairdos and the Haight couture in the film -- all too current.

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Milk and Orange Juice: My Anita Bryant Experience, Part 1

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

There she was, on the screen, in Milk. Anita Bryant, speaking out about "the homosexual agenda." Back in 1977, she was hugely controversial.

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Sean Penn's Milk Has Blast From the Antigay Past

Marc Malkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prop 6, Josh Brolin, Briggs Initiative, Diego Luna, Emile Hirsch, Gus Van Sant, Anita Bryant, Milk, Sean Penn, Gay Community, James Franco, Antidiscrimination Laws, Harvey Milk, Entertainment News
Marc Malkin

Bryant became the gay community's public enemy No. 1 for leading a movement to overturn antidiscrimination laws. I called her office to find out what she thinks about the upcoming movie.

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