(Bobby), Gloria, and twins Billy and Barbara. In 1960, Bryant married Bob Green (1931–2012), a Miami disc jockey, with whom she eventually raised four children: Robert Jr. Īnita Bryant with a sailor during a Bob Hope USO show on the USS Ticonderoga in 1965 She sang occasionally on radio and television, and was invited to audition when Arthur Godfrey's talent show came to town.īryant became Miss Oklahoma in 1958, and was second runner-up in the 1959 Miss America pageant (held September 6, 1958) at age 18, right after graduating from Tulsa's Will Rogers High School. She was singing onstage at the age of six, at local fairgrounds in Oklahoma. When Bryant was two years old, her grandfather taught her to sing ' Jesus Loves Me'. Army and her mother went to work as a clerk for Tinker Air Force Base, taking her children to live with their grandparents temporarily. After her parents divorced, her father went into the U.S. Early life and career īryant was born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, the daughter of Lenora A. 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. Bryant never regained her former prominence and filed for bankruptcy twice. This, as well as her later divorce from Bob Green, damaged her financially. Though the campaign ended successfully with a 69% majority vote to repeal the ordinance on J(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. They were assisted by many other prominent figures in music, film, and television, and retaliated by boycotting the orange juice that she promoted. Her involvement with the campaign was condemned by gay rights activists. 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. In the 1970s, Bryant became known as an outspoken opponent of gay rights in the U.S. She was the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1980 for the Florida Citrus Commission. She scored three Top 20 hits in the United States in the early 1960s. Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer and political activist, known for anti-gay activism.

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