Comments on: Anita Bryant Is Back To Headline Anti-Gay Rally To ‘Reclaim America for Christ’ In Oklahoma City

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:35:24 +0000

Anita Bryant is part of a list of people that make me embarrased to be an American: George W. Bush, John Briggs, Jerry Falwell, DICK Cheney, Pat Robertson, Bill O’Reilly, Jimmy Swaggart, and of course Anita. What’s more embarrasing is that there are people who believe in, and take these peope seriously! Oh, let’s not forget Sarah Palin. AAAACK!!!

By: Gary (NJ)

Gary (NJ) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:24:49 +0000

Paul Paris-LOL!!! I wonder what Anita would say if she found out that when I was in my 20s (back in the 70s) I came out to my cousin (she already knew–duh) and I started giving her sexual tips that would probably make her boyfriend happy, which she promptly shared with her girlfriends. This may be TMI, but I remember telling her (remember we were 20something) that they could mount and do their guys while they were doing bench presses (you can see my own fantasies here). They all took my advice and it was a smashing success. Her girlfriends wanted her to ask me what else they could try. hahaha I’ll leave it at that!

By: Tom Brown

Tom Brown — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:31:10 +0000

If Anita Bryant says the sort of things this time around that she did thirty years ago even many conservative Republicans will distance themselves from her. This country is far more enlightened on the subject of gay rights than it was in the seventies, although there is still much progress to be made.

By: Anita Bryant Back For More Homophobic Swill After Decades Of Silence | Focus On The Rainbow

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:04:22 +0000

[...] For those of you who haven’t heard (all two of you) the BITCH from decades past has come back to spread more of her homophobic bullshit, this time with “a little help from her friends” according to Truth Wins Out . [...]

By: Paul Paris

Paul Paris — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:19:25 +0000

I remember a perfect example of just how stupid and apparently illiterate she is. During her heyday, the was an interview published in one of the gay rags ( I think it was Christopher Street, but I don’t remember for sure), in which she stated that the biggest problem she has with gays is that they swallow semen. I guess she never heard of lesbians. But I digress. When confronted with the fact that heterosexual women also do that for their significant others, she said, and I quote, “You see, it’s spreading!”

By: Eugene Nichols

Eugene Nichols — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:14:48 +0000

Three things brought me out of the closet in a big way in Danville, Virginia during the spring of 1979 when I was 19: First was seeing how nasty things were getting in Dade County, FL with the whole Anita Bryant thing. Second was reading about the “night of rage” following the trial absolving the murderer of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. Third was coming back from Spring Break in New Orleans and seeing “out” people everywhere being themselves. Now I’m 50, and goddamnit, Anita Bryant, is still alive and stirring up hate!

By: BillySaint

BillySaint — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:07:44 +0000

Isn’t there an interactive Anita pie throwing contest vid game out there yet?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:52:59 +0000

God…she must be my mother’s age by now, and that can’t be pretty. Haters usually don’t age well.

By: Gary (NJ)

Gary (NJ) — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:43:13 +0000

OMG! I thought this old dragon was on life-support somewhere, or maybe seeing the USA in her Chevrolet or drunk on vodka and *orange juice* dreaming dreams of the glorious career that she never had because of doz mean ol’ unsaved homaseckshalls. I was 24 when this self-righteous shmendrick started her hate fest and 32 years later I’d still like to smash a grapefruit into her smug puss.

By: Eugene Nichols

Eugene Nichols — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:12:57 +0000

My proudest moment came in 1999. A group of Miami residents–priests, rabbis, teachers, doctors, etc–including me (a police sergeant), testified before the Miami-Dade County Commission about workplace discrimination against GLBT people. At the end of the day, Miami-Dade County residents won passage of a new Human Rights Ordinance by 1 vote. About 25 years before, Anita Bryant and her band of haters had managed to have the first ordinance of this type in US history repealed by public referendum. My public activism cost me my police job and I moved to Europe a year later, never to return. But being pushed out of ones comfort zone and forced to pursue new horizons can be a good thing. So THANK YOU, ANITA BRYANT, for returning to the stage so that we never forget how shitty things used to be for us in the old days. So if you get a shit pie in the face this time instead of Boston Cream, then so be it!