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Anita Bryant

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
23

Gender
Female

Birthday
March 25, 1940 (86 years old)

Place of Birth
Barnsdall, Oklahoma, USA

Anita Bryant

Biography

Anita Jane Bryant (March 25, 1940 – December 16, 2024) was an American singer and political activist, known for anti-gay activism. She had three Top 20 hits in the United States in the early 1960s. She was the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1980 for the Florida Citrus Commission.

In the 1970s, Bryant became known as an outspoken opponent of gay rights in the U.S. In 1977, she ran the "Save Our Children" campaign to repeal a local ordinance in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Her involvement with the campaign was condemned by gay rights activists. They were assisted by many other prominent figures in music, film, and television, and retaliated by boycotting the orange juice that she promoted. Though the campaign ended successfully with a 69% majority vote to repeal the ordinance on June 7, 1977 (Dade County restored the ordinance in 1998), it permanently damaged her public image, and her contract with the Florida Citrus Commission was terminated three years later. This, as well as her later divorce from Bob Green, damaged her financially. Bryant never regained her former prominence and filed for bankruptcy twice. She lives in her home state of Oklahoma, runs the Oklahoma City-based Anita Bryant Ministries International, and works with a host of charities and non-profits.

Known For

Acting

2026Mineshaft: The Cruising Murdersas Self (archive footage)
2024Outstanding: A Comedy Revolutionas Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015Reel in the Closetas Self
2015The Seventiesas Self (archive footage)
2009Sex in '69: The Sexual Revolution in Americaas Self (archive footage)
2008Milkas Self (archive footage)
1989Roger & Meas Self
1982Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!as Self (archive footage)
1980The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70'sas Self
1979Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Pervertsas Self
1969Drugs Are Like Thatas Narrator (voice) (as Miss Anita Bryant)
1963Case History of a Sales Meetingas
1962The Merv Griffin Showas Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carsonas Self
1961The Mike Douglas Showas Self
1961The Mike Douglas Showas Self - Co-Hostess
1959The Bell Telephone Houras Self
1959The Wonderful World of Tupperwareas Herself
1958Kraft Music Hallas Self
1957Tonight Starring Jack Paaras Self
1954The George Gobel Showas Self
1954Miss Americaas Miss Oklahoma 1958
Conventions: The Land Around Usas Self (archive footage)

Production