What a Creep: Anita Bryant (Non-Creep Terry Fox)

What a Creep

Season 19, Episode 4

Anita Bryant

Sources for this episode: 

• The Daily Beast
• Encyclopedia 
• NBC News
• PBS
• Playboy
• The Slate podcast “One Year: 1977 – Anita Bryant’s War on Gay Right”
• Them
• Washington Post
• Wikipedia

Trigger warnings: Homophobia

Anita Bryant was a singer in the early ‘60s, but she’s probably best known for her Florida orange juice commercials in the early 70s. She could’ve just got her big juice money and lived a quiet life. Instead, she decided to use her fame to strip basic human rights away from gay people. 

And while trying to criminalize being gay was not new in the 70s, she’s the one who took it mainstream. The impact of her hateful campaign can be seen in the current “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida and the laws around the country targeting drag shows. 

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Anita Bryant (Anti-LGBTQ Creep) & Canadian Hero (NON-Creep) Terry Fox – What a Creep

What a Creep Season 19, Episode 4 Anita Bryant Sources for this episode: – https://www.thedailybeast.com/anita-bryant-and-the-myth-of-the-militant-homosexual – https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/bryant-anita – https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/1970s-christian-crusader-anita-bryant-helped-spawn-floridas-lgbtq-cult-rcna24215 – https://www.pbs.org/outofthepast/past/p5/1977.html – https://www.playboy.com/read/the-playboy-interview-with-anita-bryant – https://slate.com/

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