:Anita Bryant

Bryant was born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, on March 25, 1940, the daughter of Lenora Annice Berry and Warren G. Bryant. After her parents divorced, her father went into the U.S. Army and her mother went to work as a clerk for Tinker Air Force Base. She began singing at the age of 2 at the First Baptist church in Barnsdall, with "Jesus Loves Me".{{cite news |last1=Medley |first1=Robert |title="Stories of the Ages: Anita Bryant – Sunny Side of Life" |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2011/03/20/stories-of-the-ages-anita-bryant-sunny-side-of-life/61177001007/ |access-date=January 11, 2025 |work=The Oklahoman |date=March 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104152135/https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2011/03/20/stories-of-the-ages-anita-bryant-sunny-side-of-life/61177001007/ |archive-date=January 4, 2024}} She was singing onstage at the age of six,{{cn|date=January 2025}} at local fairgrounds in Oklahoma. She sang occasionally on radio and television, and was invited to audition when Arthur Godfrey's talent show came to town, eventually winning the contest. At age 12, she had her television show The Anita Bryant Show, which aired on WKY (now KFOR-TV).{{cite news |last1=Nagle |first1=Mallory |title=Anita Bryant - One of state's most famous citizens calls Edmond home |url=https://edmondlifeandleisure.com/anita-bryant-one-of-states-most-famous-citizens-calls-edmond-home-p893-1.htm |access-date=January 10, 2025 |work=Edmond Life and Leisure |date=May 1, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112172310/https://edmondlifeandleisure.com/anita-bryant-one-of-states-most-famous-citizens-calls-edmond-home-p893-1.htm |archive-date=January 12, 2023}}

Bryant became Miss Oklahoma in 1958, right after graduating from Tulsa's Will Rogers High School, and was second runner-up in the 1959 Miss America pageant (held September 6, 1958) at age 18.{{cite news|last=Red Corn|first=Louise|title=Celebration draws Anita Bryant back to Barnsdall|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=050528_Ne_A15_Celeb14440|access-date=March 1, 2013|newspaper=Tulsa World|date=May 28, 2005|archive-date=April 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403022205/http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=050528_Ne_A15_Celeb14440|url-status=live}}

In 1960, Bryant married Bob Green (1931–2012), a Miami disc jockey, with whom she eventually raised four children.{{cite news |author1=Elinor J. Brecher |author2=Steve Rothaus |url=http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/02/onetime-disc-jockey-bob-green-anita-bryants-husband-during-1977-gay-rights-battle-dies-at-80.html#storylink=misearch |title=One-time disc jockey Bob Green, Anita Bryant's husband during 1977 gay-rights battle, dies at 80 |newspaper=The Miami Herald |access-date=May 5, 2012 |archive-date=March 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325045504/http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/02/onetime-disc-jockey-bob-green-anita-bryants-husband-during-1977-gay-rights-battle-dies-at-80.html#storylink=misearch |url-status=live }} They divorced in 1980.{{cite web |last1=Thapliyal |first1=Oshika |title=What happened to Anita Bryant's first marriage? All about US Army veteran Bob Green |url=https://www.soapcentral.com/human-interest/news-what-happened-anita-bryant-s-first-marriage-all-us-army-veteran-bob-green |website=Soapcentral.com |access-date=16 January 2025 |date=10 January 2025}}

File:Anita Bryant with a sailor during Bob Hope show on USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) in December 1965.jpg USO show on the USS Ticonderoga in 1965]]

Bryant appeared early in her career on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood{{cn|date=January 2025}} and on the same network's The Ford Show, starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Bryant released several albums on the Carlton and Columbia labels.{{cn|date=January 2025}} Her first album, Anita Bryant, which was released in 1959, contained "Till There Was You" and songs from other Broadway shows.{{cn|date=January 2025}} Her second album, Hear Anita Bryant in Your Home Tonight (1961), contains "Paper Roses" and "Wonderland by Night", as well as several songs that first appeared in her singles.{{cn|date=January 2025}} Her third album, In My Little Corner of the World, also in 1961, contains the title song and other songs that have to do with places around the world, including "Canadian Sunset" and "I Love Paris".{{cn|date=January 2025}} Bryant's compilation album, Greatest Hits (1963), contains both her original Carlton hits (because Columbia purchased all the masters from Carlton) plus sides from her Columbia recordings, including "Paper Roses" and "Step by Step, Little by Little".{{cn|date=January 2025}} In 1964, she released The World of Lonely People, containing, in addition to the title song, "Welcome, Welcome Home" and a new rendition of "Little Things Mean a Lot", arranged by Frank Hunter. Bryant also released several albums of religious music.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

Bryant had a moderate pop hit with the song "Till There Was You" (1959, US No. 30), from the Broadway production The Music Man. She also had three hits that reached the Top 20 in the U.S.: "Paper Roses" (1960, US No. 5, and covered by Marie Osmond 13 years later), "In My Little Corner of the World" (1960, US No. 10), and "Wonderland by Night" (1961, US No. 18), originally a hit for Bert Kaempfert. "Paper Roses", "In My Little Corner of the World", and "Till There Was You", each sold over one million copies, and were awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.{{sfn|Murrells|1978|p=122}}

File:Anita Bryant holding a bottle of Coca-Cola.jpg]]

From 1961 until 1968, Bryant frequently joined Bob Hope on holiday tours for the United Service Organizations. She again traveled with Hope for televised shows during the Vietnam War.{{cite web|url=http://www.historynet.com/bob-hopes-vietnam-christmas-tours.htm|title=Bob Hope's Vietnam Christmas Tours|website=Historynet.com|language=en-US|access-date=May 3, 2018|date=December 23, 2009|archive-date=May 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503113555/http://www.historynet.com/bob-hopes-vietnam-christmas-tours.htm|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/21063980/|title=The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas on April 22, 1976 · Page 10|work=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 3, 2018|language=en|archive-date=May 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503112623/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/21063980/|url-status=live}} Bryant was given the Silver Medallion Award from the National Guard for "outstanding service by an entertainer", and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Leadership Gold Medallion.{{Cite news|url=http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/inductees/anita-bryant/|title=Anita Bryant|work=Florida Citrus Hall of Fame|access-date=May 3, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=May 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503112330/http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/inductees/anita-bryant/|url-status=live}}

Between 1964 and 1969, Bryant performed at multiple White House functions, including both the Democratic Convention in Chicago and the Miami Republican Convention in 1968.{{Cite web |last=Endres |first=Nikolai |date=2009 |title=Bryant, Anita (b. 1940) |url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/bryant_anita_S.pdf |access-date=April 9, 2022 |website=glbtqarchive.com |archive-date=June 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610080820/http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/bryant_anita_S.pdf |url-status=live }} She was nominated for two Grammy Awards: best sacred performance and best spiritual performance.{{cite news |last1=Payne |first1=Kate |title=Anita Bryant, a popular singer who became known for opposition to gay rights, dead at age 84 |url=https://apnews.com/article/anita-bryant-84-died-singer-antigay-0c1d7279f2f4f7d435c669c6868b6b37 |access-date=January 11, 2025 |work=AP News |date=January 10, 2025 |language=en}}

In 1967, with I Believe she moved towards gospel which would also characterize the music of her other albums.George Vecsey, [https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/21/archives/secular-bookings-off-anita-bryant-sings-at-revivals-sang-for-billy.html Secular Bookings Off, Anita Bryant Sings at Revivals], nytimes.com, USA, February 21, 1978

In 1969, Bryant became a spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission, and nationally televised commercials featured her singing "Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree" and stating the commercials' tagline: "Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine." (Later, the slogan became, "It isn't just for breakfast anymore!") In addition during that time, she appeared in advertisements for Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Holiday Inn, and Tupperware. In the 1970s, Bryant was teamed up with the Disney Character "Orange Bird", with whom she appeared in several orange juice commercials. She also sang the Orange Bird Song and narrated the Orange Bird record album, with music written by the Sherman Brothers. She also published her cookbook, Bless This Food: The Anita Bryant Family Cookbook, described as "Much more than a cookbook, this is the story of a family devoted to Christ."

Bryant sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" during the half-time show of Super Bowl V in 1971, and at the graveside services for President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973. She also co-hosted the televised segment of the Orange Bowl Parade for nine years.

Bryant hosted a two-hour television special, The Anita Bryant Spectacular, in March 1980.{{IMDb title|1198524|The Anita Bryant Spectacular}} She recounted her autobiography, appeared in medleys of prerecorded songs, and interviewed Pat Boone. The West Point Glee Club and General William Westmoreland participated.{{cite news|last=O'Connor|first=John J.|title=TV: Study of Inflation and Anita Bryant Show|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/03/27/112148326.pdf|access-date=March 1, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 27, 1980}}

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In 1977, Dade County, Florida, passed an ordinance sponsored by Bryant's former friend Ruth Shack that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.{{cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1977/Miami-Demonstrations/12361881614363-7|date=1977|title=Year in Review: Miami Demonstrations|publisher=United Press International|archive-date=July 24, 2013|access-date=June 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724130107/http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1977/Miami-Demonstrations/12361881614363-7/|url-status=live}} Bryant led a highly publicized campaign to repeal the ordinance, as the leader of a coalition named Save Our Children. The singer was especially concerned about the fact that the ordinance risked authorizing homosexual people to work in Christian schools and become role-models, because her own children were enrolled there.{{cite news |url=https://www.playboy.com/read/the-playboy-interview-with-anita-bryant |last=Kelley |first=Ken |date=May 1978 |title=Playboy Interview: Anita Bryant |work=Playboy |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129170413/https://www.playboy.com/read/the-playboy-interview-with-anita-bryant |url-status=live }} The campaign was based on conservative Christian beliefs regarding the sinfulness of homosexuality and the proposed threat of homosexual recruitment of children and child molestation.{{sfn|Bryant|Green|1978}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} Bryant stated:

{{blockquote|What these people really want, hidden behind obscure legal phrases, is the legal right to propose to our children that theirs is an acceptable alternate way of life.{{nbsp}}[...] I will lead such a crusade to stop it as this country has not seen before.{{sfn|Bryant|Green|1978}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}}}}

She also perpetuated the idea of the gay community 'recruiting' children through child abuse to become homosexual themselves. When Shack and other leaders refused to vote in opposition to the ordinance as per her request, she pleaded with families directly "The recruitment of our children is absolutely necessary for the survival and growth of homosexuality... for since homosexuals cannot reproduce, they must recruit, must freshen their ranks."

The campaign marked the beginning of an organized opposition to gay rights that spread across the nation.{{sfn|Johnson|2019}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} Jerry Falwell went to Miami to help Bryant. She made the following statements during the campaign: "As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children" and "If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters."{{sfn|Bryant|Green|1978}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} She also said, "All America and all the world will hear what the people have said, and with God's continued help we will prevail in our fight to repeal similar laws throughout the nation."{{sfn|Clendinen|Nagourney|2013|p=306}}{{sfn|Gillon|2012|p=263}}{{sfn|Winston|2012|p=225}}

The name of the campaign had to be changed to "Protect America's Children" because of legal action by the Save the Children foundation.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19770716&id=OmFNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4342,4241374|title=Lakeland Ledger – Google News Archive Search|website=News.google.com|access-date=September 29, 2016|archive-date=August 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811175314/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19770716&id=OmFNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4342,4241374|url-status=live}}

File:Anita Bryant Sucks Oranges button.jpg campaign for which she served as spokesperson]]On June 7, 1977, Bryant's campaign led to a repeal of the anti-discrimination ordinance by a margin of 69 to 31 percent. However, the success of Bryant's campaign galvanized her opponents, and the gay community retaliated against her by forming the Coalition for Human Rights and the Miami Victory Campaign, who organized a boycott of orange juice.{{sfn|Bryant|Green|1978}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} Gay bars all over North America stopped serving screwdrivers{{cite web|url=https://historyproject.omeka.net/items/show/67|title=ANITA SUCKS [ORANGES] · Documented {{!}} Digital Collections of The History Project|website=Historyproject.omeka.net|language=en-US|access-date=May 3, 2018|archive-date=May 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503113628/https://historyproject.omeka.net/items/show/67|url-status=live}} and replaced them with the "Anita Bryant Cocktail", which was made with vodka and apple juice.{{sfn|Marcus|2002}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} Additionally, merchandise such as buttons, bumper stickers, and T-shirts with slogans like "A day without human rights is like a day without sunshine" were sold to push the anti-discrimination movement further. Sales and proceeds went to gay rights activists to help fund their fight against Bryant and her campaign.{{sfn|Marcus|2002}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}}

In 1977, Florida legislators approved a measure prohibiting gay adoption.{{sfn|Bryant|Green|1978}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} The ban was overturned more than 30 years later when, on November 25, 2008, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Cindy S. Lederman declared it unconstitutional.{{Cite news |last=Almanzar |first=Yolanne |title=Florida Gay Adoption Ban Is Ruled Unconstitutional |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 25, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/us/26florida.html |archive-date=May 8, 2017 |access-date=February 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508220550/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/us/26florida.html |url-status=live }}

{{external media|float=right|video1=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tHGmSh7f-0 Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face], from NBCUniversal Archives}}

On October 14, 1977, during a televised appearance in Des Moines, Iowa, she repeatedly said she "loves homosexuals, but hates their sin".William Simbro (15 October 1977). [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register/20071567/ "Pie shoved in Anita Bryant's face by homosexual here"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129170631/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register/20071567/ |date=January 29, 2024 }}. The Des Moines Register – via newspapers.com. During this appearance, Bryant became one of the first people to be publicly "pied" as part of a political protest. She had a pie thrown at her by Thom L. Higgins (1950–1994).{{cite web |title=Thom L. Higgins: An Inventory of His Papers |url=http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00715.pdf |access-date=November 14, 2019 |archive-date=February 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215091614/http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00715.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Movies/article/293551 |title='For the Bible Tells Me So': Setting us straight |website=Thestar.com |date=January 13, 2008 |access-date=July 7, 2013|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Snodgress|first=Mary Ellen|title=American Women Speak: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection of Women's Oratory|location=Santa Barbara, California|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2017|isbn=9781440837852|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RlslDQAAQBAJ|page=114}} Bryant quipped "At least it's a fruit pie",{{cite web |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/26/cnr.04.html |title=CNN Transcripts |date=April 26, 2008 |access-date=July 7, 2013 |archive-date=October 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019185023/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/26/cnr.04.html |url-status=live }} making a pun on the derogatory slur of "fruit" for a gay man and a reference to her work as a sponsor for fruit companies. While covered in pie after the assault, she began to pray to God to forgive the activist "for his deviant lifestyle" before bursting into tears as the cameras continued rolling. Bryant's husband said that he would not retaliate, but followed the protesters outside and threw a pie at them.{{sfn|Marcus|2002}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} By this time, gay activists ensured that the boycott on Florida orange juice had become more prominent and it was supported by many celebrities, including Jane Fonda{{sfn|Marcus|2002}}{{page needed|date=March 2021}}, Paul Williams,{{cite web |last1=Panisch |first1=Alex |title=Catching Up With Paul Williams |url=https://www.out.com/entertainment/interviews/2012/06/14/catching-paul-williams |website=Out.com |access-date=November 11, 2019 |language=en |date=June 14, 2012}} and Vincent Price (he joked in a television interview that Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance referred to her).{{Cite news|url=https://www.queerty.com/vincent-prices-daughter-confirms-her-famous-father-was-bisexual-20151025|title=Vincent Price's Daughter Confirms Her Famous Father Was Bisexual|last=Murphy|first=Colin|date=October 25, 2015|access-date=August 4, 2017|archive-date=August 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802055954/https://www.queerty.com/vincent-prices-daughter-confirms-her-famous-father-was-bisexual-20151025|url-status=live}} Johnny Carson also made Bryant a regular target of ridicule in his nightly monologues.{{sfn|Lane|2018}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} In 1978, Bryant and Bob Green told the story of their campaign in the book At Any Cost.{{sfn|Bryant|Green|1978}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} The gay community continued to regard Bryant's name as synonymous with bigotry and homophobia.{{sfn|Marcus|2002}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}}{{sfn|Tin|2003}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} However, at the same time, her name became a call to action for gay rights activists, and motivated many to picket her events, host anti-Bryant protests across the country, and increase attendance in and frequency of pride marches.

Bryant led several more campaigns around the country to repeal local anti-discrimination ordinances, including campaigns in St. Paul, Minnesota; Wichita, Kansas; and Eugene, Oregon. In 1978, her success led to the Briggs Initiative in California, which would have made pro-gay statements regarding homosexual people or homosexuality by any public school employee cause for dismissal.{{sfn|Bryant|Green|1978}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} Grassroots liberal organizations, chiefly in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, organized to defeat the initiative. Days before the election, the California Democratic Party opposed the proposed legislation. President Jimmy Carter, Governor Jerry Brown, former president Gerald Ford, and former governor (and future President) Ronald Reagan—then planning a run for the presidency—all voiced opposition to the initiative, and it ultimately suffered a massive defeat at the polls.{{sfn|Marcus|2002}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}}

In 1998, the Miami-Dade County Commission reinstated the ordinance protecting individuals from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, by a narrow 7–6 vote. In 2002, a ballot initiative to repeal the 1998 law, called Amendment 14, was voted down by 56 percent of the voters.{{sfn|Marcus|2002}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} The Florida statute forbidding gay adoption was upheld in 2004 by a federal appellate court against a constitutional challenge but was overturned by a Miami-Dade circuit court in November 2008.

The fallout from Bryant's political activism caused irreparable damage to her business and entertainment career, with her obituary in The Oklahoman framing her 1978 Playboy interview as a turning point in her career. Even earlier in February 1977, the Singer Corporation rescinded an offer to sponsor an upcoming weekly variety show because of the "extensive national publicity arising from [Bryant's] controversial political activities."{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/02/25/gay-rights-dispute-stops-bryants-show/25d24a78-cb47-4003-bc2d-623662091b7b|title=Gay Rights Dispute Stops Bryant's Show|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=October 16, 2019|archive-date=June 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624145202/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/02/25/gay-rights-dispute-stops-bryants-show/25d24a78-cb47-4003-bc2d-623662091b7b/|url-status=live}}

In 1978, while a member of a Baptist church, she ran for vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, but lost. Several leaders disagreed with how she rejected civil rights for gay people.{{cite news |first1=Marjorie |last1=Hyer |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/06/14/baptist-convention-rejects-bryant-as-vice-president/9c10a2dc-c96f-4766-947f-2b5a4b3b32cf/ |title=Baptist Convention Rejects Bryant as Vice President |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=1978-06-14 |archive-date=August 28, 2017 |access-date=January 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828162227/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/06/14/baptist-convention-rejects-bryant-as-vice-president/9c10a2dc-c96f-4766-947f-2b5a4b3b32cf/ |url-status=live }}

Bryant's marriage to Bob Green also failed at that time; she divorced him in 1980, citing emotional abuse and latent suicidal thoughts.{{sfn|Bryant|1992}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}}{{cite web |last=Sinclair |first=Kip |year=1980 |title=Anita Bryant Rates Family Bliss Next to Godliness, but After 20 Years She's Divorcing Bob Green |volume=13 |issue=23 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20076683,00.html |access-date=December 5, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110175146/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0%2C%2C20076683%2C00.html |archive-date=January 10, 2011 |url-status=live }} Green refused to accept this, claiming his fundamentalist religious beliefs did not recognize civil divorce and that "in God's eyes", she was still his wife.{{cite news |author=Steve Rothaus |url=http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2007/06/bob_green_anita.html |title=Bob Green: Anita's ex paid dearly in the fight |newspaper=The Miami Herald |access-date=May 5, 2012 |archive-date=September 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901155222/http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2007/06/bob_green_anita.html |url-status=live }}

Many Christian fundamentalist audiences and venues shunned Bryant after her divorce. Because she was no longer invited to appear at their events, she lost a major source of income. The Florida Citrus Commission also allowed her contract to lapse after the divorce, stating that Bryant was now "worn out" as a spokesperson.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/296838537/|title=26 May 1981, 36 - The Press Democrat at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 16, 2019|archive-date=June 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624145152/http://www.newspapers.com/image/296838537/|url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Notes on People: Orange Juice Contract Runs Dry for Anita Bryant |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/09/02/111285216.html?pageNumber=30 |access-date=November 11, 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 2, 1980 |page=B6 |language=en |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308014110/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/09/02/111285216.html?pageNumber=30 |url-status=live }}

Bryant rapidly became the butt of jokes, as her image shifted from being a model Christian spokeswoman to that of a priggish, self-righteous bigot. The decline of her reputation was aided by Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, and other comedians and talk-show hosts as they regularly mocked her to the general public. This led to her endorsements being cancelled and sponsors dropping her, as she was now viewed as a liability.

Bryant and three of her four children moved from Miami to Selma, Alabama and later to Atlanta, Georgia.{{sfn|Bryant|1992}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}} In a 1980 Ladies' Home Journal article she said, "The church needs to wake up and find some way to cope with divorce and women's problems." She also expressed some sympathy for feminist aspirations, given her own experiences of emotional abuse within her previous marriage. Bryant also commented on her somewhat relaxed anti-gay views, saying "I'm more inclined to say live and let live, just don't flaunt it or try to legalize it."{{cite journal |last1= Jahr|first1= Cliff|year= 1980|title= Anita Bryant's Startling Reversal|journal= Ladies Home Journal |issue= December 1980|pages=60–68 }} In a 2012 interview, her son Robert Green, Jr. said "she would be putting a lot more energy into fighting gay rights if she still felt as strongly."{{cite news|url=http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Talking-with-the-son-of-Bob-Green-and-Anita-Bryant/36564.html|title=Talking with the son of Bob Green and Anita Bryant – Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News Archive |newspaper=Windy City Times}}

Bryant appeared in Michael Moore's 1989 documentary film Roger & Me, in which she is interviewed and travels to Flint, Michigan, as part of the effort to help revitalize its devastated local economy.{{cite news |last=Howe |first=Desson |title=Roger & Me|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/rogermerhowe_a0b24d.htm|access-date=March 1, 2013|newspaper=Washington Post|date=January 12, 1990}}

Bryant married her second husband, Charlie Hobson Dry, in 1990.{{sfn|Bryant|1992}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}}{{cite web |last1=Willman |first1=Chris |title=Anita Bryant, Pop Singer, Florida Orange Pitchwoman and Anti-Gay Rights Crusader, Dies at 84 |url=https://variety.com/2025/music/obituaries-people-news/anita-bryant-dead-pop-singer-anti-gay-oranges-1236271244/ |website=Variety |access-date=16 January 2025 |date=9 January 2025}} The couple tried to reestablish her music career in a series of small venues, including Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, where they opened Anita Bryant's Music Mansion. The establishment combined Bryant's performances of her successful songs from early in her career with a "lengthy segment in which she preached her Christian beliefs". The venture was not successful and the Music Mansion, which had missed meeting payrolls at times, filed for bankruptcy in 2001 with Bryant and Dry leaving several employees and creditors unpaid.{{cite news |url=http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123001005/http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml |archive-date=January 23, 2011 |title=Bankruptcy, ill will plague Bryant |first=Thomas C. |last=Tobin |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |date=April 28, 2002 |access-date=June 14, 2011}} They remained married until his death in April 2024, eight months before Bryant's death.{{cite news |last= Greco |first= Jonathan |date= 28 April 2024 |title= Charlie Dry, a NASA test astronaut from Oklahoma, dies at 85 |url= https://www.koco.com/article/charlie-dry-dies-nasa-test-astronaut-oklahoma/60626529#:~:text=Charlie%20Dry%2C%20an%20Oklahoman%20who%20played%20a%20major,died%20from%20complications%20of%20cancer.%20He%20was%2085. |work= KOCO News |access-date= 5 August 2024 |archive-date= September 13, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240913172504/https://www.koco.com/article/charlie-dry-dies-nasa-test-astronaut-oklahoma/60626529#:~:text=Charlie%20Dry%2C%20an%20Oklahoman%20who%20played%20a%20major,died%20from%20complications%20of%20cancer.%20He%20was%2085. |url-status= live }}

Bryant also spent part of the 1990s in Branson, Missouri, where the state and federal governments both filed liens claiming more than $116,000 in unpaid taxes. Bryant and Dry had also filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Arkansas in 1997 after piling up bills from a failed Anita Bryant show in Eureka Springs; among the debts were more than {{US$|172000|1997|long=no|round=-3|about=yes}} in unpaid state and federal taxes.

In 1996, Bryant stated that she was happy to no longer be working in show business.{{Cite news |last=Richards |first=David |date=May 12, 1996 |title=ANITA BRYANT, RECONSTITUTED |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/05/12/anita-bryant-reconstituted/6f6ea068-dc02-4308-b9d3-a7f28a12be2f/ |access-date=January 12, 2023 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=December 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241208194810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/05/12/anita-bryant-reconstituted/6f6ea068-dc02-4308-b9d3-a7f28a12be2f/ |url-status=live }}

In 2005, Bryant returned to Barnsdall to attend the town's 100th anniversary celebration and to have a street renamed in her honor. In 2006, she founded Anita Bryant Ministries International in Oklahoma City. In 2011, she defended her anti-gay activism saying "I did the right thing" and "I never regretted what I did."

In 2021, Bryant's granddaughter came out publicly on an episode of Slate's One Year podcast series by announcing her pending marriage to a woman, although she was having difficulty deciding whether she should invite her grandmother to the ceremony.{{Cite web |date=July 8, 2021 |title=One Year: 1977 – Anita Bryant's War on Gay Rights |url=https://slate.com/podcasts/one-year/s1/1977/e1/anita-bryant-gay-rights-1977 |access-date=December 17, 2022 |website=Slate.com |archive-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216160849/https://slate.com/podcasts/one-year/s1/1977/e1/anita-bryant-gay-rights-1977 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=July 27, 2021 |title=Another Pie in the Face for Anita Bryant: Her Granddaughter Is Gay |url=https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/7/27/another-pie-face-anita-bryant-her-granddaughter-gay |access-date=August 17, 2021 |website=The Advocate |archive-date=October 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211012004812/https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/7/27/another-pie-face-anita-bryant-her-granddaughter-gay |url-status=live }}

Bryant died from cancer at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, on December 16, 2024, at the age of 84. Her death was announced by her family on January 9, 2025.{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/arts/music/anita-bryant-dead.html|title = Anita Bryant, Whose Anti-Gay Politics Undid a Singing Career, Is Dead at 84|last = Gates|first = Anita|date = January 9, 2025|newspaper = The New York Times|url-access = limited|archive-date = January 10, 2025|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250110033640/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/arts/music/anita-bryant-dead.html|url-status = live}}{{Cite news |last=Yang |first=Maya |date=2025-01-09 |title=Anita Bryant, singer and anti-gay rights crusader, dies aged 84 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/09/anita-bryant-singer-anti-gay-rights-crusader-dies |access-date=January 10, 2025 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

Bryant is a frequently portrayed character at drag shows across the United States.{{sfn|Luther Hillman|2015}}{{page needed|date=January 2025}}{{sfn|Tyson|1999|p=332}}

Bryant's name has frequently been invoked as a prototypical example of opposition to LGBT rights. When Elton John was criticized for touring Russia in 1979, he responded: "I wouldn't say I won't tour in America because I can't stand Anita Bryant".{{cite AV media notes |title=Elton John, To Russia with Elton John |orig-year=1979 |at=track 0:45:35 |publisher=Power Station |location=EU |year=2003}} In his song "Mañana", Jimmy Buffett sings "I hope Anita Bryant never ever does one of my songs".Jimmy Buffett, Son of a Son of a Sailor (lyrics/liner notes; ABC Records, 1978) In 1978, David Allan Coe recorded the song "Fuck Aneta Briant" {{sic}} on his album Nothing Sacred.{{cite web|author = Walter Beck|url = http://www.polarimagazine.com/classicmusic/sacred-david-allan-coe/|title = Nothing Sacred • David Allan Coe|website = Polarimagazine.com|date = March 21, 2013|access-date = November 29, 2015|archive-date = April 11, 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190411233455/http://www.polarimagazine.com/classicmusic/sacred-david-allan-coe/|url-status = live}}{{cite web |url=http://allmusic.com/album/nothing-sacred-r105965 |title=Nothing Sacred |website=AllMusic |access-date=January 8, 2017 |archive-date=April 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410054210/http://allmusic.com/album/nothing-sacred-r105965 |url-status=live }} California punk rock band Dead Kennedys referenced Bryant in their song "Moral Majority" from their 1981 EP In God We Trust, Inc.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxUJnR3oURw | title=Dead kennedys – moral majority – YouTube | via=YouTube | date=July 3, 2008 | access-date=October 13, 2022 | archive-date=October 13, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013110740/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxUJnR3oURw | url-status=live }}

In 1977, the Dutch levenslied singer Zangeres Zonder Naam wrote the protest song "Luister Anita" ("Listen Up, Anita") on the occasion of the protest night "Miami Nightmare", organized in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. The nightly concert was intended to raise funds for an advertisement in Time, in which the Dutch nation was to call on the American people to protect the rights of minorities. In the song, Zangeres Zonder Naam compared Anita Bryant to Hitler and called on gays to fight for their rights. The song became an integral part of her repertoire and cemented her status as a cult figure among Dutch gays.{{cite news|date = November 5, 1981

| title = Zangeres zonder Naam: Ik zing en slik niet maar alles

| trans-title = Zangeres Zonder Naam: I don't sing and put up with just anything

| url = https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010621800:mpeg21:a0453

| language = nl

| work = Leeuwarder Courant : hoofdblad van Friesland

| location = Leeuwarden

| access-date = March 18, 2020

}}

Steve Gerber, in his Howard the Duck for Marvel Comics, made an organization called the Sinister S.O.O.F.I. (Save Our Offspring from Indecency) who were led by Anita Bryant. Although it was not explicitly stated, even The New York Times called the implication "transparent".{{Cite web|url=http://www.jmdematteis.com/2017/09/gerber-day.html|title=GERBER DAY|first=J. M.|last=DeMatteis|website=Jmdemattels.com|access-date=June 11, 2021|archive-date=June 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621000435/http://www.jmdematteis.com/2017/09/gerber-day.html|url-status=live}}

Armistead Maupin, in his 1980 novel More Tales of the City, used Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" campaign to prompt a principal character to come out of the closet.{{cite book |title= More Tales of the City|last= Maupin|first= Armistead |author-link= Armistead Maupin |year= 1980|publisher= Harper & Row|location= New York |isbn= 978-0-06-090726-6}}

Bryant was regularly lampooned on Saturday Night Live, sometimes with her politics as the target,{{Cite episode |title= Steve Martin|series= Saturday Night Live|network= NBC|airdate= February 26, 1977|season= 2|number= 14 }}{{Cite episode |title= Hugh Hefner |series= Saturday Night Live|network= NBC|airdate= October 15, 1977|season= 3|number= 3 }} sometimes her reputation as a popular, traditional entertainer known for her commercials as the target,{{Cite episode |title= Dyan Cannon|series= Saturday Night Live|network= NBC|airdate= May 15, 1976|season= 1|number= 20 }} and sometimes targeting a combination of the two.{{Cite episode |title= Burt Reynolds|series= Saturday Night Live|network= NBC|airdate= April 12, 1980|season= 5|number= 16 }} Her name was also a frequent punchline on The Gong Show, such as the time host/producer Chuck Barris joked that Bryant was releasing a new Christmas album called Gay Tidings. Some references were less overtly political, but equally critical. In the film Airplane! (1980), Leslie Nielsen's character, upon seeing a large number of passengers become violently ill, vomit, and have uncontrollable flatulence, remarked: "I haven't seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert."Airplane! (film), 1980, Paramount Pictures. Other television shows that targeted her were Soap,"Episode 1.10". Soap. Season 1. Episode 10. November 22, 1977. ABC. Designing Women,{{Cite episode |title= Monette |series= Designing Women|network= CBS|airdate= February 8, 1987|season= 1|number= 13 }} and The Golden Girls.{{Cite episode |title= Sophia's Wedding (1) |series= The Golden Girls|network= NBC|airdate= November 19, 1988|season= 4|number= 6 }}{{Cite episode |title= Big Daddy's Little Lady |series= The Golden Girls|network= NBC|airdate= November 15, 1986|season= 2|number= 6 }} She was also the target of mockery in the RiffTrax short Drugs Are Like That.{{cite web|title=Drugs are Like That – Rifftrax|url=http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/drugs-are|website=RiffTrax|date=September 19, 2014|access-date=August 11, 2014|archive-date=September 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927165003/http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/drugs-are|url-status=live}}

Bryant appears in archive footage as a principal antagonist in the 2008 American biographical film Milk, about the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk.{{cite news |last1=Hinton |first1=Carla |title=Anita Bryant, singer, anti-gay activist and Save Our Children founder, dies at 84 |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/01/10/anita-bryant-death-singer-anti-gay-activist/77591782007/ |access-date=January 11, 2025 |work=The Oklahoman |date=January 10, 2025}} She was also portrayed as the principal antagonist in the 2011 play, Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins.{{Cite news|url=http://diversionary.org/anitabryant/|title=Diversionary Theatre : The Third Oldest LGBT Theatre in the Country|date=March 3, 2017|work=Diversionary Theatre|access-date=May 3, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=May 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503123229/http://diversionary.org/anitabryant/|url-status=live}}

In May 2013, producers announced plans for a biographical HBO film based on Bryant's life to star Uma Thurman, with a script from gay screenwriter Chad Hodge.{{cite news|last=McClintock|first=Pamela|title=Cannes: Uma Thurman Set to Star in Anita Bryant Pic |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-uma-thurman-set-star-524006|access-date=May 18, 2013|newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter|date=May 16, 2013}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/anita-bryant-chad-hodge-gay-best-friend_n_1073739.html|title=Anita Bryant Wants 'A Gay Best Friend' Says Screenwriter Chad Hodge|date=November 3, 2011|work=Huffington Post|access-date=May 3, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=October 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011130830/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/anita-bryant-chad-hodge-gay-best-friend_n_1073739.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/uma-thurman-anita-bryant_n_3287782.html|title=Uma Thurman As Anita Bryant: 'Kill Bill' Star Cast As Anti-Gay Activist|date=May 16, 2013|work=Huffington Post|access-date=May 3, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=June 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606090356/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/uma-thurman-anita-bryant_n_3287782.html|url-status=live}} Long languishing in development, as of 2019, Ashley Judd and Neil Patrick Harris have been attached to the project.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/ashley-judd-neil-patrick-harris-anita-bryant-biopic-chad-hodge-darren-star-howard-rosenman-1203217112/|title=Ashley Judd, Neil Patrick Harris to Star in Biopic on Anti-Gay Activist Anita Bryant (EXCLUSIVE)|first=Stewart|last=Clarke|website=Variety.com|date=May 16, 2019|access-date=August 17, 2021|archive-date=May 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513041948/https://variety.com/2019/film/news/ashley-judd-neil-patrick-harris-anita-bryant-biopic-chad-hodge-darren-star-howard-rosenman-1203217112/|url-status=live}}

Archive footage of Bryant appears in The Gospel of Eureka, a 2018 documentary about the lives of LGBT individuals and evangelical Christians in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.{{cite news |last1=Uhlich |first1=Keith |title='The Gospel of Eureka': Film Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/gospel-eureka-review-1093994 |access-date=March 7, 2019 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=March 12, 2018 |archive-date=March 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308080753/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/gospel-eureka-review-1093994 |url-status=live }}

Bryant was lampooned in the 2016 play Anita Bryant's Playboy Interview, based on her 1978 magazine piece.{{cite web | last=Koseluk | first=Chris | title=Anita Bryant, Singer and Crusader Against Gay Rights, Dies at 84 | website=The Hollywood Reporter | date=2025-01-09 | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/anita-bryant-dead-singer-orange-juice-gay-rights-1236105715/ }}

She is also the subject of The Loneliest Girl in the World, a musical that premiered at Diversionary Theatre in San Diego in mid-2018.{{Cite news|url=http://diversionary.org/the-loneliest-girl/|title=Diversionary Theatre : The Third Oldest LGBT Theatre in the Country|date=June 22, 2017|work=Diversionary Theatre|access-date=June 9, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=November 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108120211/http://www.diversionary.org/the-loneliest-girl/|url-status=live}}{{cite web | title=The Loneliest Girl in the World ; formerly known as PIED! and I Love You, Anita Bryant | first=Gordon | last=Leary | date=2023-08-21 | url=https://omfgordon.com/loneliest-girl-in-the-world/ | access-date=2025-01-09}}

Mark D. Jordan has written: "Many of her public statements, including her books, were ghostwritten by others, and there is internal reason to conclude that the most political books were pasted together by several hands from various sources."{{sfn|Jordan|2011|p=130}}

• Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1970){{cite web |last1=Scanzoni |first1=Letha |title=Bryant, Anita |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/bryant-anita |website=encyclopedia.com |access-date=January 11, 2025 |location=American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present}}
• Amazing Grace (Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1971)
• Bless This House (Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1972)
• Bless This Food: The Anita Bryant Family Cookbook (New York: Doubleday, 1975)
• The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Nation's Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality (Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1977)
• A New Day (1996)

With Bob Green

• Fishers of Men (Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1973)
• Light My Candle (Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1974)
• Running the Good Race (Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1976), fitness guidance
• Raising God's Children (Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1977)
• At Any Cost (1978)

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• {{cite book |title= At Any Cost |last1= Bryant |first1= Anita |last2=Green |first2=Bob |year= 1978 |publisher= Fleming H. Revell |location= Grand Rapids, Michigan, US |isbn= 978-0800709402 |url= https://archive.org/details/atanycost0000brya}}
• {{cite book|title= A New Day|url= https://archive.org/details/newday00brya|url-access= registration|last= Bryant|first=Anita |year= 1992|publisher= Broadman |location= Nashville, TN|isbn= 9780805453522}}
• {{cite book |last1=Clendinen |first1=Dudley |last2=Nagourney |first2=Adam |title=Out For Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America |date=2013 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781476740713 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jpaauFUgLuAC&q=Anita+Bryant+human+garbage&pg=PA306 |language=en}}
• {{cite book |last1=Gillon |first1=Steven M. |title=The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945 |date=2012 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1133309857 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S4_wKVpCIzAC&q=Anita+Bryant+human+garbage&pg=PA263 |language=en}}
• {{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/this-is-our-message-9780190618933|title=This Is Our Message: Women's Leadership in the New Christian Right|last=Johnson|first=Emily S.|date=March 28, 2019|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780190618933|location=Oxford, New York|archive-date=December 2, 2024|access-date=July 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202023420/https://global.oup.com/academic/product/this-is-our-message-9780190618933|url-status=live}}
• {{cite book |last=Jordan |first=Mark D. |title=Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2011}}
• {{cite book |last1=Lane |first1=Stephen |title=No Sanctuary: Teachers and the School Reform That Brought Gay Rights to the Masses |date=2018 |publisher=University Press of New England |isbn=9781512603156 |page=70 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZxqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 |access-date=November 14, 2019 |language=en}}
• {{Cite book|title=Dressing for the Culture Wars: Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s And 1970s|last=Luther Hillman|first=Betty|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year=2015}}
• {{cite book|title=Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights |last=Marcus|first=Eric |year=2002|publisher=Harper |location=New York City|isbn=978-0-06-093391-3}}
• {{cite book | first= Joseph | last= Murrells | year= 1978 | title= The Book of Golden Discs | edition= 2nd | publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd | location= London | isbn= 978-0-214-20512-5 | url= https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/122}}
• {{cite book |first1=Louis-Georges |last1=Tin |title=Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience |date=2003 |publisher=Arsenal Pulp Press |isbn=978-1-55152-229-6}}
• {{Cite book|title=Critical Theory Today: A User-friendly Guide|last=Tyson|first=Lois|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1999}}
• {{cite book |last1=Winston |first1=Diane |title=The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media |date=2012 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=9780195395068 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCCja27G0AAC&q=Anita+Bryant+human+garbage&pg=PA225 |language=en}}

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• [http://www.anitabmi.org/3.html Anita Bryant Ministries International]
• {{IMDb name|117039}}
• [http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/general/n036934.jpg Image of Anita Bryant in the 1970s] (Available for public use from the State Archives of Florida)
• [http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070419_1_A2_hNote80156 Belated curtain call], Tulsa World, April 19, 2007
• [http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?articleID=070418_7_A13_spanc32254 Readers Forum: Anita Bryant to star in Round-Up 2007], Tulsa World, April 18, 2007
• [http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=050528_Ne_A15_Celeb14440 Celebration draws Anita Bryant back to Barnsdall], Tulsa World, May 28, 2005
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090105075806/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BR029.html Bryant, Anita], Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
• [https://blog.history.in.gov/the-debate-over-decency-how-hoosiers-challenged-anita-bryants-anti-gay-rights-crusade/ "The Debate over 'Decency:' How Hoosiers Challenged Anita Bryant's Anti-Gay Rights Crusade,"] Indiana History Blog, October 30, 2020

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