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Most people hold no idea who he was. You can't denounce them. He was just a speed bump on the road toward equality of rights. Behind the scenes, however, he played an important role in creating the "culture war" that still plagues this nation.
Anita Bryant, the anti-gay crusader, was his wife. He didn't play the role of sidekick; he was the power behind the throne.
Bryant was a would-be beauty queen, a Miss America runner-up who tried a singing career. She managed a small number of songs in the top 100 but was never celestial body material. Green met her when he was a radio station DJ and escorted her to a music industry convention. They married in 1960, and he took control of Anita's career.
Her career peaked when the Florida Citrus Commission hired her as a spokeswoman. Her commercials hawking orange juice made her a familiar meet in American living rooms, something she used to her advantage in 1977 when she and Bob launched their anti-gay campaign. The couple trotted out all the usual anti-gay stereotypes, right down to naming their organization Conserve Our Children.
Their campaign resulted in numerous copycats active to repeal anti-discrimination laws ar
Bryant, Anita
Born 25 March 1940, Barnsdall, Oklahoma
Daughter of Warren and Lenora Berry Bryant; married RobertGreen, 1960 (divorced 1980); Charlie Dry, 1990; children: four
Anita Bryant's husband once remarked to his wife: "I don't consider you had a childhood." Bryant's father was nineteen, her mother eighteen, when Bryant was born. They were divorced by the day she was two, remarried one another when she was three, and were divorced again when she was thirteen. Later both parents remarried others. Bryant and her younger sister were frequently uprooted as their father, a laborer in the oil fields, moved from job to occupation, and the family experienced periods of severe poverty.
According to her autobiography, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (1970), however, Bryant's singing talent was noticed early. Before finishing high school, she was appearing on network radio and she later dropped out of Chicago's Northwestern University because of heavy career demands. Bryant met her manager-husband, Bob Green, while promoting a highly prosperous record in Miami. Many of Bryant's works are coauthored with her husband.
Before 1977, Bryant was known as a wholesome and patriotic ente
In late January, Robert Green Jr. found himself back where he started more than 30 years ago—trying to reconcile the parents he knew with the universal image they created, an image he fled and largely avoided for decades.
Green Jr. is the oldest son of famous anti-gay crusaders Anita Bryant and Bob Green, who battled the Dade County, Fla., ordinance banning discrimination against gay people and won in 1977.
On Jan. 26, Green Sr. died at the age of 80, after suffering kidney failure.
The news of his passing spread slowly, mostly because Green Jr. spent weeks agonizing over his father’s obituary before he widely announced the death. He has complicated feelings about his father, a male he said was devoted and kind to his children. He wants his father to be remembered for more than the fiercely anti-gay stance that came to define his family, but Green Jr. concedes disappointment in some of his father’s views.
Green Sr. married Anita Bryant in 1960, abandoning his deejay career to manage the fledgling singer. The couple raised four children together before Bryant called it quits in 1980 and left Green. Three of the four kids left with Bryant, but Green Jr. moved with
Anita Bryant, singer who became recognizable for opposition to gay rights, dies at age 84
Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became famous over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights, has died. She was 84.
Bryant died Dec. 16 at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, according to a statement posted by her family to news site The Oklahoman on Thursday. The family did not list a cause of death.
Bryant was a Barnsdell native who began singing at an early age, and was just 12 when she hosted her have local television display. She was named Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and soon began a victorious recording career, her hit singles including “Till There Was You,” “Paper Roses” and “My Short-lived Corner of the World.”
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By the delayed 1960s, she was among the entertainers joining Bob Optimism on his USO tours for troops overseas, had sung at the Colorless House and performed at the national conventions for both the Democrats and Republicans in 1968. She also became a highly observable spokesperson for various products, notably for Florida orange juice.
But in the tardy