Anti-Gay Rights Activist In Film
US audiences are set to be treated to a biopic about 1970s gay-rights campaigner Anita Bryant, but will they get the pie-face scene right?
Now 69, Anita Bryant was a famous Oklahoma beauty queen, singer and anti-gay rights campaigner in the 1970s. Sex and the City producer Darren Star says Bryant is the perfect character for an on-screen exploration.
“She is a fascinating person on every single level. The twists and turns of her life are incredible,” Star said about Bryant, confirming the biopic script is currently in development.
Bryant toured the country in the late-1970s, campaigning against gay rights in her home state of Florida and across the US.
The public controversy that arose over her campaigning lost Bryant her promotional contract with Florida Citrus Commission, with whom she became a household name with the catch phrase: “Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.”
Bryant spearheaded the Save Our Children campaign, through which she campaigned that homosexuals were ‘recruiting’ children. A Baptist Christian, Bryant became bankrupt in the 1980s after the loss of her contract with Florida Citrus and a failed attempt at re-entering the music industry.
Famous for another line: “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,” although HBO probably won’t screen the film here, there are plenty of YouTube treats.
Watch Anita’s run-in with another activist here:
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