Anita Bryant, a multi-Grammy nominated singer, beauty queen, and Florida Orange Juice pitchwoman who morphed into a polarizing figure after crusading against gay rights in the 1970s, has died.

Anita Bryant, the Florida orange juice promoter turned anti-gay rights activist who inspired the failed California Briggs Initiative, died in obscurity last month. She was 84. Ms. Bryant died December ...

In Florida, her legacy was challenged and perpetuated ... Bryant spent the latter part of her life in Oklahoma, where she led Anita Bryant Ministries International. Her second husband, NASA ...

And the parallels to Florida's current-day culture wars against ... done because I grew up with the weight of that law that Anita Bryant helped pass." The ordinance that once protected the queer ...

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma ... She also became a highly visible commercial spokesperson, her ads for Florida orange juice featuring the tag line, “A day without orange juice is ...

Anita Bryant Dry's soaring vocals helped catapult ... entertain U.S. troops overseas and her stint touting Coca-Cola and Florida orange juice. A former Miss Oklahoma, Dry unabashedly proclaimed ...

(Gray News) - Anita Bryant, a former singer known for becoming ... Oklahoma in 1958 and and for being a brand ambassador for the Florida Citrus Commission from 1969 to 1980.

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma ... She also became a highly visible commercial spokesperson, her ads for Florida orange juice featuring the tag line, “A day without orange juice is ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular ... visible spokesperson for various products, notably for Florida orange juice. But in the late 1970s, her life and career ...