Good As You: Anita Bryant Roundup
11/03/2011
Anita Bryant: Ready for her premium cable closeup
Chad Hodge is writing an HBO biopic on the life of notorious anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant. And as Hodge tells E! Online's Marc Malkin: Bryant is actually willingly opening up to the openly gay screenwriter: "She was panicked to meet...03/25/2011
Before They Were 'Culture War' Stars: Anita B. to graduate
1958; Tulsa Oklahoma. A young, heterosexual Will Rogers High School student was recruiting kids into her neck-doily lifestyle: Never one to sit out the drama, young Anita's agenda puts her front and center in the thespians (I said thespians) group...02/22/2011
Flashback: Anita, America, and Lulu too
May 31, 1980: Think we're too late to get a pin, or merely too gay?02/02/2011
Video: 'Ex-gay' in the age of Carter
1979: [Brian McNaught] John Hansen left Anita Bryant Ministries in 1980. If anyone has more info, please let us know. *** *Shirley Spellerberg today, blogging at Texas GOP Vote.07/12/2010
Video: A gay hairdresser and a time machine might change the course of history
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'Mad Men' not July's only retro return
She's baaaaack. This from Gossip Boy: The controversial Queen of Gay Hate, Anita Bryant, will be returning to the stage on July 9, 2010 for a patriotic performance in Yukon, OK before an Oklahoma-based group that has become nationally known...02/02/2010
From 'Milk' to 'Juiced Fruits'
According to the Hollywood Reporter, HBO is looking to make a biopic about notorious anti-gay activist and orange juice pitchwoman, Anita Bryant: HBO is developing a biopic of former beauty queen, singer and celebrity pitchwoman Anita Bryant, who is known...04/24/2009
Carrie be wary
Carrie Prejean, you seem like a nice enough person who just so happens to have some unfortunately exclusive views. We really don't see you as someone who wants to be persona non grata of the LGBT community, but rather as...03/26/2009
Video: Anita's public service: Making us laugh hysterically!
Ladies and gentleman, we think we've found it. A 1970s, Anita Bryant-backed campaign that just might be even more misguided, simplistic, logically challenged, and sweepingly fearful than her infamous gay rights crusade. But so, so, soooooo much funnier: (Anita is...02/24/2009
Conservs mad at 'Milk'? We say: Liquidate your own movement's story!
Social conservatives have been furious over this year's "culture war"-centric Oscar bait: Our suggested retaliation? They should convince a conservative studio exec to produce this: The Anita Bryant Story These folks can tell their side of the '70s gay rights...01/02/2009
'Milk', as seen by Anita's modern ilk
After weighing all of the elements of the film, Focus on the Family's "Plugged In Online" movie review site sums up Milk with the following terse wrap up: "In a sentence or two, Milk presents hurting people thrashing about for...11/25/2008
Florida: Will state (f)law continue its fall?
Florida. Due in large part to the mid-70's work of the pretty lady to our left, the Sunshine State still, to this day, has a ban on gay adoption. A sweeping, particularly nasty ban on gay adoption. From Pensacola to...07/09/2008
Anita-d a good laugh this afternoon
Oh holy mother of '70s era activists: How did we not know about Anita Bryant's new website until today?! For while it is completely lacking in usable content, the perfectly-toned campiness of the creation makes us simply giddy with delight....06/10/2008
Video: Thirty years of "Change?! Are you kidding me?!?"
Here at G-A-Y, we often poke fun at the wackity schmackity idea that gays can and should "change" into "ex-gays." However, as you'll see in this clip from a rare National Lampoon HBO special that originally aired in 1978, we...
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