Former Miss Oklahoma Anita Bryant had a steady career with some hit records (notably "Paper Roses"), regular appearances on TV variety hours and lots of commercials (most notably for the Florida Citrus Commission)--and then in 1977 when Dade County, FL (where she lived) enacted a law prohibiting discrimination against gays, she objected loudly and started an organization called Save Our Children (which started that trope about LGBTQs), thereby pretty much killing her career outside of "The 700 Club" and other TV religious shows--on Dec. 16 in Edmond, OK of cancer:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/arts/music/anita-bryant-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oE4.qwO6.VHyL562lsgew&smid=url-share -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/31be844e-4a22-44e3-8742-a0108b8e98a8n%40googlegroups.com.
