The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice was an all-American entertainer before she began crusading against L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

Bryant led a successful campaign to repeal an ordinance in Florida’s Miami-Dade County that would have prohibited discrimination against gay people.

Bryant was perhaps most well-known for her 1977 “Save Our Children” campaign that painted gays and lesbians as a threat to the country’s youth.

Anita Bryant, who has died aged 84, was a 1960s pop singer, former beauty queen and brand ambassador for the Florida Citrus Commission who became a conservative icon and liberal hate figure in the 1970s when she campaigned against homosexuality and gay adoptions.

Grammy-nominated singer and Christian activist Anita Bryant, known for her anti-gay rights stance, has passed away. The singer breathed her last at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, last month. Here’s everything you need to know about Anita Bryant’s death.

Anita Bryant, a popular singer and product pitchwoman in the 1960s and ’70s who successfully destroyed both those aspect of her career by becoming the public, and very loud, face of a 1977 campaign against gay rights,

She has hits with songs like "Paper Roses" and served as a spokesperson for Florida orange juice before her career came crashing down.

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights, has died. She was 84.

Anita Bryant Dry, entertainer and anti-gay activist, died in December at her Edmond home, according to an obituary submitted by her family. She was 84.

Anita Bryant, the Florida orange juice promoter turned anti-gay rights activist who inspired the failed California Briggs Initiative, died in obscurity last month.

A former Miss Oklahoma, Anita Bryant became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights.