- Born
- Birth nameAnita Jane Bryant
- Anita Bryant was born on March 25, 1940 in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, USA. She is an actress, known for Roger & Me (1989), Drugs Are Like That (1969) and Mrs. America (2020). She has been married to Charlie Dry since 1990. She was previously married to Bob Green.
- SpousesCharlie Dry(1990 - present)Bob Green(June 25, 1960 - August 19, 1980) (divorced, 4 children)
- Her 1959 hit record of "Till There Was You" (Pop #30), was the first successful recording of a Pop standard from the 1957 Broadway show "The Music Man'. The Beatles would later include this song in their act. Other hits include "Paper Roses" and "In My Little Corner Of The World" , both were Top 10 hits in 1960.
- On March 22, 2019, Oklahoma governor John Kevin Stitt issued a citation declaring March 25, 2019(her 79th birthday) to be "Anita Bryant Day". The move was publicly condemned by gay activists and the press due to Bryant's past activities as an anti-gay campaigner.
- Inducted into the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame in 1988.
- From 1968 to 1980, she appeared in 76 television commercials as a spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission.
- In the U.S. presidential election year of 1968, Bryant sang the National Anthem at both the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.
- (After being pied in the face by gay protesters during a press conference) At least it's a fruit pie!
- Had I gone my own way and not gotten to know God or accepted Him as a part of my life, I think that I would have been a very belligerent individual, full of hate and bitterness.
- 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.
- God loves you just as much as he does everybody else. He loves us so much so that he doesn't want any of us to die and be destroyed in our sin. I've never said, 'This is what Anita Bryant says,' but this what the Word of God says. So I think my position was always one of love.
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