Anita Bryant

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/6/2023
  

  What Disney's Orange Bird Logo Says about Corporate Support and the LGBTQ Movement

  by Julio Capó, Jr.

  In the 1970s, Disney was much more willing to tolerate the anti-gay tirades of singer Anita Bryant, which previewed today's "groomer" accusations, because of a lucrative and politically expedient partnership with Florida's orange growers, suggesting movement power, not corporate benevolence, is driving change. 

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• SOURCE: NBCUniversal
  4/14/2022
  

  Video: When a Protester Hit Anita Bryant with a Cream Pie in 1977

  "Thus always to bigots" declared the Des Moines, Iowa protester who greeted Anita Bryant's anti-gay roadshow with a pie to the face. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  4/13/2022
  

  Florida Bill Echoes Anita Bryant's Antigay Crusade in the 1970s

  Historians Lillian Faderman, Hugh Ryan and Julio Capó, Jr. trace the links between the Christian entertainer's claims that gay teachers threatened children and the effort to portray them as "groomers" for child abuse today. Also, video of Bryant being hit with a pie.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/4/2022
  

  While "Anti-Grooming" Rhetoric Seems to Come from the Fringe, it Can be Influential

  by Mical Raz and Paul M. Renfro

  The latest culture war battle revives historical efforts to use the law to institutionalize the slander that LGBTQ people pose an inherent danger to children and families. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/28/2022
  

  Using "The Children" as an Excuse for Anti-LGBTQ Laws is Nothing New for Florida

  by Julio Capó Jr. and Shevrin Jones

  The 1950s Johns Committee was formed by the state legislature to root out communist subversion in Florida. Not finding any red influence in the NAACP, they turned to scapegoating LGBTQ Floridians.