ANITA BRYANT IS DEAD TO ME!!!

FUCK YES!

Well, excuse me for living, Anita Bryant!

fuck yea!!! a long life for a miserable cunt

And take some pie with ya!

Pie video, because we must.

SHE'S FINALLY DEAD! AH HA HA HA HA HA!!

bye bye Miss American Pie

Knock Knock. Who's there? Orange juice, Orange juice who? Orange juice happy that hateful bitch is dead?

Maybe 2025 will surprise us by being a good year! Keep eating that McDonalds, Donald!

Wow, I thought she died years ago.

OP link blocked the bobit in the EU for GDPR or something, so I popped the VPN and I'll paste the text in here in case it's geoblocked...and so we can mock it:

Anita Bryant Dry—former Miss Oklahoma, three-time Grammy-nominated singer, Christian author, recipient of the USO Silver Medallion for Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars Leadership Gold Medallion, and Al Jolson Gold Medallion—died at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Monday, December 16, 2024, surrounded by her family and friends. She was 84 years old.

Born on March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, to Lenora (Berry) Bryant and Warren Bryant, Anita spent her early years surrounded by the love of her family and the Christian faith that would guide her throughout her life. Her passion for music and performance blossomed early, leading her to a career that included her own TV show at the age of 12, her crowning as Miss Oklahoma at the age of 18, guest spots on Arthur Godfrey's CBS programs and on Dick Clark's "American Bandstand," and chart hits “Till There Was You," “Paper Roses,” “In My Little Corner of the World,” and “Wonderland by Night.”

For seven consecutive years, Anita performed with Bob Hope's holiday tours for U.S. troops abroad. Hope dubbed her his troupe's “den mother” because of her propensity for taking care of others. She sang at the White House for President Lyndon B. Johnson and at his graveside service. In 1968 Anita sang at both the Republican and the Democratic national conventions. She was known especially for her rendition of "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

On the lighter entertainment side, Anita also sang at the Super Bowl in 1971 and cohosted the nationally televised segment of the Orange Bowl Parade for nine years. She served as the TV spokesperson for Florida orange juice for nine years and for Coca-Cola for seven years.

Later in life she led Anita Bryant Ministries International, an organization encouraging others to live with faith and purpose. Such dedication extended to her family. Anita was a loving mother to her four children—Bobby, Gloria, Billy, and Barbara—and a devoted grandmother to her seven grandchildren. She loved to write Bible songs and teach them to her grandchildren when they were small. In subsequent years Anita continued to write and sing about God's love whenever and wherever she could. (Her story can be found in more depth at the Anita Bryant Ministries International website.)

Anita was preceded in death by her husband, Charlie; her parents, Lenora and Warren; her stepfather, George; her sister, Sandra; and her half brother, Sonny. She left behind her four children, two stepdaughters, and seven grandchildren and their spouses, who will cherish her legacy of faith and love. Anita also left behind a beloved extended family—as well as her church family, friends, and neighbors—who gave of themselves to her in many ways.

May Anita's memory and her faith in eternal life through Christ comfort all who embraced her.

Nobody mourns the wicked!

I thought the bitch was already dead.

I hope she didn't get a few surprise on the way to the heaviside layer.

I hope the Orange Bird shits on her gravestone.

r11 "OP link blocked the bobit in the EU for GDPR or something, so I popped the VPN"

WTF

Ding dong!

Burn in hell, bitch.

Anita Bryant tried to ruin the gay community. Good riddance to her.

Good news!!!

I too had no idea she was still alive.

I guess she died a nobody. Perfect.

Satan callled her home…..

Sorry, bad typing, r15. It's late and Mama had a brandy.

It meant to read: OP's link to the obit was blocked in the EU because of GDPR or something, so I popped on the VPN so I could read it.

Susan Dey is rolling her eyes but has nothing to say about Ms. Bryant.

A reminder to live your life in such a way that a large number of people aren't happy when you die.

Mimosas! Free mimosas for everyone!!!

Dec. 16, 2024.

All the elderly haters who tried to destroy the gay folks of generations s past are dying or dead… but we are still here! That’s a real victory.

As the demons dragged Bryant’s withered soul into hell for eternity, they did so while she realized that her entire life crusade was a failure.

[quote]In 2021, Bryant's granddaughter, Sarah Green, came out publicly on an episode of Slate's One Year podcast series by announcing her pending marriage to a woman, although she was having difficulty deciding whether she should invite her grandmother to the ceremony.

I heard her on a religious show in the 1970s say that gay men sinned by eating semen. I was only a teenager at the time, so I made a mental note that that was something I needed to do when I became an adult as part of being gay (I was too young to know what gay sex all entailed, so it helped me to learn what was expected).

Whatever happened to the Anita Bryant biopic that Uma Thurman was supposed to star in?

This has to be a mistake. I was sure she died years ago. Or maybe she was just DEAD TO ME.

Will she go to heaven?

[quote] Good news!!!

Gospel means “good news”, so OP is spreading the gospel.

[quote] I heard her on a religious show in the 1970s say that gay men sinned by eating semen.

She also compared it to vampirism.

Satan to Anita: "Welcome Home! Now get on your knees and eat my hot, acidic, foul-smelling semen."

She has a gay granddaughter? LOL. God really does have a sense of humor.

In hell with Jean-Marie Le Pen

R35, the religious wackos always end up with gay or kinky kids. Bryant’s granddaughter is a lesbian, Phyllis Schlafly’s son smells cookies, and Jerry Falwell Jr was shtupping the pool boy in a three way relationship with his wife.

No mention of her hateful homophobia in the obit.

Before he leaves office we should petition Biden to make "Anita Bryant Death Day" a national holiday

Evil sow.

She and her husband also ripped off dozens in Branson, Missouri, sneaking out of town to skip her debts.

What a a Christian paragon.

Semen-eaters! Semen-eating vampires!!!!

She led a movement to reverse a law protecting gay rights in Miami Beach. And won.

BYE BITCH

Apparently she died on December 16th. I wonder why her family waited to announce it. Maybe to prevent LGBT activists from picketing her funeral?

Champagne! Champagne for everyone!

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And fresh Florida orange juice 🍊 ! Let’s make mimosas!

Ding-dong, the bitch is dead!

In lieu of flowers, please bring a whipped cream pie.

I wonder if my "silent witness" sunglasses are worth something now?

BWAHAH

We’ll need to see where she relocates, so we can leave flowers.

and....

Last time I saw her even her hair looked deflated.

Anita Bryant sucks oranges in hell.

Is it a crime to pee on someone's grave?

Ding dong the Witch is dead

YASSSSSSS HUNTY

Has Orange Bird commented?

Carol Burnett spoofed her back in the day.

I mean, if they want to save money on her funeral, just give the entire gay community shovels, and we'll dig a hole so deep we can hand her over to Satan personally.

Count me to those who thought she died a long time ago.

The Daily Oklahoman actually broke a story for once.

Leave your condolences here…

Well it's about time she learned to take a hint. She was skirting hellfire for that little Tupperware convention performance as it was, so all of the bigotry & deceit just sealed the deal.

Now when is Trump going to hell?

Soon!!

R28, you and all of us know she swallowed.

This bitch lived a VERY long life, and spent a decent portion of it advocating against the LGBTQ community.

She’s directly responsible for causing major strife in conservative, Christian families where a son or daughter were gay or lesbian, and helped build a community of highly abusive conversion therapy camps where kids were relentlessly bullied for being gay.

Many stayed in the closet because of the political environment this cunt advocated for.

If you weren’t around to watch this, the closest thing today is JK Rowling and her vitriol against the Trans community.

THE SOW IS MINE!

Oh FFS, R68. Give it a rest.

Please take a minute to look at this. When Anita was just getting started on her anti-gay crusade, she was scheduled to perform a concert in New Orleans. 3,000 people said HELL NO and marched. That took guts in Louisiana in the mid-1970s. These are photos from the event.

Our forefathers and foremothers. I'm particularly impressed with the young woman with the cut-off sleeves and tattoo. She could be our elderlez or senior lesbian.

Anita Bryant was before my time, but I've seen plenty of things about her via documentaries and so on. She was a capital C "Cunt." Awful, horrible woman.

Anita Brojob

Before the bitch ended up in Oklahoma she had moved all over the country. She'd set up housekeeping in a city, immediately start running one scam or another, run up a ton of bills, and when the going got tough she'd flee in the middle of the night owing everybody she'd come into contact with.

Deadbeat whore.

Ding dong the witch is dead!

Oh, happy day!

Was Ruth Shack reached for comments?

This is such WONDERFUL news. Eldergays (or, well informed younger gays), can someone help me find an image of a promotional flyer someone had created back in the 70s or early 80s mocking Bryant? I think it may have been for a legitimate LGBT rights fundraiser or event -- for some reason I think a 'cruise' of some kind was involved, or maybe it was Fire Island themed? It was definitely posted on here before, but my Googling has turned up nothing. I KNOW someone on here knows what I'm referring to.

R60's post is one reason I will ALWAYS love Carol Burnett.

I love January Oldbitchuaries.

If she weren’t such a reprehensible person, you could almost feel sorry for her. Her campaign accelerated her descent into misfortune and obscurity. By just being a decent human being everything could have berm better for everyone

They're all over the place online, R78. Try a market/sell site, not just Google.

R82 - I'm not trying to buy an actual poster. I'm trying to figure out what to search for in Google to pull up an image of this flyer/poster. I'm guessing, by your response, you know what image I'm referring to. I'm just not seeing it, so, clearly, I'm not using the right combination of words in my search due to my fuzzy recollection of the exact details/name of the image or event it was produced for. Can you help??

Snoopy dance!

R68 - You're beyond stupid if you want to compare Anita Bryant with JK Rowling. How far up your own ass do you have the nerve to even compare the two?

JK Rowling has done nothing but call out the lunacy of the trans movement's language and trying to silence women and others who are impacted.

A brief breakdown of JK's 'actions' - which is a tempest in a teapot. JK is right about it all.

2nd HUSBAND = Adulteress

Love Carol Burnett! She's probably chuckling right now

In lieu of flowers, everyone shit on her grave.

R86. I’m glad you noted this gross hypocrisy. She had a failed marriage. What her god ordains in that case is that she not remarry until her husband dies, I.e. she has no option but the sexless lonely life she says her god ordains for gay people. She should have lived that life. But she lived in adultery. As an unrepentant adulteress, she is in hell now.

She was fucking evil.

Let’s say 100 people showed up with whipped cream pies outside her funeral and pelted the hearse…and maybe some hunny dressed like Divine chases after the hearse crying and yelling MOMMY COME BACK!…

Then a fleet of braless butch lesbians on scooters weaves in and out of the procession, waving flags and playing Winter by Tori Amos…

And all the yassss queens are in Miata and VW convertibles throwing cock rings at passers-by…

Would that be protest or art?

And how much are plane tickets?

In retrospect the pie-in-the-face thing pretty much ended her B- career. It was a huge news story at the time and the video was played on tv until everyone in America knew about it. It made people really uncomfortable and Anita stopped being hired, she was too hot to handle.

Happily she had decades to live in obscurity and penury as a used-to-be nobody!

Hooray!

Anyone notice how Anita Bryant looks so much like Matt Gaetz?

Was it a Carnival Cruise R78?

A graduate of my high school was the one who smashed the pie into her face.

(Other graduates of my high school include: Loni Anderson, Richard Dean Anderson, Peter Krause, Har Mar Superstar.)

I used to have (and wear) an "I slept with Anita Bryant's husband" button

Doing the Lord's work - singing for Tupperware.

Eighty-four years old?! I thought she was born about 1898 (?). 🤷‍♂️

bye bitch

Rot In Perdition.

[quote]Wow, I thought she died years ago.

Only her career and perfect marriage.

Dumb cunt lived way too long. Rest in hell!

[quote]I guess she died a nobody. Perfect.

She got the fate she deserved. Career gone down the toilet, dumped by the Jesus crowd who turned on her when she got divorced, and broke.

That whole debacle in Miami started the first national conversation about gay rights. And any time we can get people talking about gay rights and gay issues, we ultimately win. She and her crowd won the battle, but took the first step in losing the war.

Take note Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, THIS is now you skillfully combat homophobia. Not silly rainbow hair and internet memes. GROW A PAIR some time.

Welcome, Anita.

Heaven needed a soul and got Jimmy. Hell needed one too. . . . .

Not that I like to quote Bill Maher in this day and age, but I'll repurpose something he said after Jerry Falwell's passing:

Death....isn't always sad.

Just as a deep dark cavern of hell opened up to swallow her.

[quote]Heaven needed a soul and got Jimmy. Hell needed one too.

A perfect contrast between Christians and "Christians".

If she had been younger, and had the right team around her, she could have fit right in with Maga and hustled a few bucks like the rest of them

Took long enough but good news.

I can't decide whether I'm more shocked that she was even still alive or that she was only 84.

She was only 37 in 1977 when she started her hate campaign. I assumed she was much, much older - in her 50s at least.

DeSantis is moving to have her canonized.

Honestly, I thought she'd been dead for years.

Congratulations to my gay friends. Ms Bryant weepily praying with a cake on her face will always make me laugh my ass off.

She could have been a gay camp icon like Dolly or Tammy Faye.

Cut her head off, and bury it in a different place.

Called to her true lord. Satan needed another grifting cunt.

[quote]Is it a crime to pee on someone's grave?

I once had a cat who did just that to a cat that had tortured him for years, R57. Deke looked a thousand pounds lighter when he came back into the house after dousing poor old Blackie's corpse from nose to tail.

So GO FOR IT!

She'd be a hero in today's Florida. Sad when you think about it.

R115, she was dead on the inside, so this is working out well for her

Ding, dong, the cunt is dead!

for a hot second I thought AIDY Bryant pulled a Mama Cass

Hopefully she's burning in HELL! Fuck her.

She was an evil cunt.

Nasty whore

What ever happened to the brave man who gave her the pie in the face? Didn't he agree to meet with them and let her do the same or is my memory failing. Where did he end up after that?

Dropped-pie faced loser like Logan Paul!

And that cow couldn't carry a note in a bucket.

New York Times pitchbot: 😃 😀 😄 😁 🤣

carol burnet's tribute

R132 is not R60.

[quote]Leave your condolences here…

The oldbitchuary got yanked.

She was a cunt.

R68 nonsense. Trans should not be lumped in with gays. JK Rowling calls it as it is.

I hadn't really thought about her in ages but, in an odd coincidence, I saw her just last night on TCM in a short film about Tupperware. She was singing at a Tupperware convention, which was probably typical of the sort of gigs she could get. And this film was from before her gay-bashing notoriety.

R136, no, she doesn't "tell it like it is" - she's just an old grump trying to scapegoat minorities like Anita did

Phil Donahue talks about Anita

Tom Higgins was the pie-thrower

Activist Thom Higgins is credited with coining the “gay pride”. He died of AIDS thirty years ago.

How is her quim?

I'm so glad you guys posted about Thom Higgins. Pie-gate happened well before I was born but I certainly knew of that indelible image of Anita getting "pied" in the face. Thom sounded like an incredibly courageous, spirited man. Perhaps he would have made a fabulous eldergay, too. Rest in Peace, dear, Thom. If such things as afterlifes exist, I hope you're chuckling today!

R136 = BLOCKED

A story detailing her comeback attempt ten years after the Miami debacle.

In case some outsider is reading this thread because of SEO, Datalounge is mostly neutral to supportive of trans people. We just have a mega troll with several sock puppet accounts who obsessively posts anti-trans propaganda.

The Rowling comparison, while not 1:1, is indeed somewhat apt.

If she toured with Bob Hope, she probably fucked him, too.

Wow. That’s a sad article. She brought it on herself, but the last few decades of her life must have been pretty grim.

Her granddaughter is gay. Anyone knows how she looks like? Can't find any photo

Jesus called, and she answered.

A day without Anita is like a day with sunshine.

R146=Chad “Parker” Molloy

That bitch worked her religion con for decades. It was well known she was a mean, despicable harridan. Fact is, many famous and seemingly highly religious people are mean as snakes in private.

Interesting video about her first husband.

I remember reading this issue in June 1977 , sitting in my kitchen in Somervile MA.

This was one of the first mainstream gay news stories I can recall. I was 24, and just figuring things out..

It was very unsettling, .... one aspect that is hard to put into perspective was whether the country would join her..... ( and of course how dependent you were on a weekly magazine for news!)

The Carol Burnett Show -Anita Bryant sketch aired on October 22, 1977..... so within months it appeared middle America was not on board.

I can still remember sitting in the kitchen at home and reading a story in the local newspaper about the Florida Citrus Commission’s decision to not renew her endorsement deal. It put a smile on my face for the rest of the day.

Well, bye.

[quote]Was Ruth Shack reached for comments?

I doubt that anyone reached out to her, and she probably wouldn't have anything bitchy to say if they did. But she has outlived Anita, and that's satisfying.

I'm having a party!!!

No One Mourns the Wicked

Carol Burnett parody of Anita Bryant

An article on one of her last business ventures, and the people she and her husband fucked over.

Kind of surprised the entire thread isn't just 164 links to "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead"

R164 is not R132 who is not R60.

[quote]Interesting video about her first husband.

He was a piece of work himself. Anita later said he was abusive and controlling toward her. He spent the last 30-some years of his life as a lonely, bitter fuck who couldn't move on.

DR 157 I wonder what Cynthia Flannagan thought about it and what made her keep this magazine for so many years?

DR157 - messed up.

R157 twice.....damn.....I will just leave. Thanks.

She gave up her Jesus grift for extramarital boner

[quote] [R164] is not [R132] who is not [R60].

Why would you expect the person posting an article about her bankruptcy to be the same person posting a Carol Burnett sketch?

She approaches the pearly gates and St Peter is THE nelliest queen ever, and he’s laughing and shaking his head, “no gurl, uh uh.”

BURN

IN

HELL

[quote] If you’re going to be bitchy, your execution should be flawless

You are correct. I gave you a W&W for the sage bit of advice.

Usually, evil people live forever but she's DEAD AS A DOORNAIL. She will go down in history as a hateful human being, right up there with the ilk that supported slavery

Florida banned gay adoption because of her homophobic fearmongering and that law stayed on the books for DECADES

R164, of course, like a conservative, she was a hardened grifter

A word from Judy.

Her married name was Dry.

Much like her pussy.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐈𝐭 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐢 (2014) documentary:

Haven't seen the DL this giddy over a celeb death since Rush Limbaugh!

She's dead! Celebrate!

I'm gonna dance in celebration!

Celebrate!

Does her dead pussy stink?

Likely

[quote]How is her quim?

Dryer than a perfect martini.

If she spent the later part of her life in misery that’s better than nothin.Bitch distressed a lot of us back in the day.

Someone should throw a pie to her gravestone!

Some more gay history: Anita traveled in support of California's Proposition 6 (aka the Briggs Initiative), which would have passed a state law expressly forbidding gays and lesbians from working in any role in any California public school. It was a measure so hateful that even Ronald Fucking Reagan came out against it.

Anita Bryant deserves no sympathy, no empathy, no reassessment of her career and her motivations. None.

Let's celebrate Bryant Is Dead Day!

it never occured to me that by 1977 Anita Bryant would have been working with gays in show busienss for almost 20 years.

She had to have known and worked with some top talent. Designers, costumers,make up, tech, dancers, musicians all working to make her look good.

She must have been a mess.

B**** stole my jam!

She stole your grift,. bitch.

Ironically she went dancing with some early " ex gay" type at the Limelight Club back in Atlanta in 1982. This place had a dance floor over a actual shark tank and you can see the sharks swimming! I wonder she partook in any poppers or blow?

From reading both articles linked about her demise and grifting, it's so apparent she never seemed to grasp pride and greed are the deadliest sins.

Elisabeth Moss should play Anita in the biopic.

[quote] it never occured to me that by 1977 Anita Bryant would have been working with gays in show busienss for almost 20 years.

She may have worked with gays, but I MARRIED one

R200 Kathie Lee, go pray and take your Balance of Nature.

Po’ thang was too old and feeble to be a Trumpette.

Anyone know where she's buried? Maybe we can organize a road trip to dance on her grave

Looking at old clips of her from the 70s, I can't believe she was only in her mid-30s. Damn she looked like a hard 55.

R204, she was only 37 in 1977 when she started her hate campaign. I assumed she was much, much older - in her 50s at least.

Seriously r205. She was only in her thirties here. You would think she was much older. Bitch was RODE HARD.

There was nothing "Christian" about her at all. She was a hateful, awful, vile person.

It should be a National Day of Mourning!!!

Will there be flying pies at her funeral?

as mentioned at a party tonight, she started crying in the video of the pie, and the commentator asks for everyone to start praying.

so sad, if it weren't heinous evil bitch.

As we know, people, particularly celebrities, looked older back in the day.

According to her son, she died of cancer.

R212, that fits.

Fitting

My condolences to cancer.

Hope it was a long, slow painful death.

The old bigot died. Even the witches are gleeful.

She got a front page, below-the-fold, obituary in the print edition of today’s Times.

[quote] According to her son, she died of cancer.

Fitting, since she was a cancer on humanity.

Cancer died from Anita Bryant

Obviously orange juice causes cancer.

"I vant to suck your... I want to say blood?".

Another legendary hated entertainer....

Go Cancer!

Rosie was right - liars get cancer!!!

Her pussy was all dried up

The article at R212 says that, in a 1990 interview, Bryant said she had no regrets because she "did the right thing." This sounds like complete bullshit. She was obviously very ambitious and, while never a top-tier star, she did have a successful career. For someone who once worked with Bob Hope to have attempted a comeback in 1988 by launching a tour of trailer park rec rooms is both hilarious and pathetic. I'm guessing that she had plenty of regrets, knowing that she alone was to blame for all the misery she caused herself. But to admit to regrets would have made it sound as though she were questioning the will of almighty Jesus.

The wicked witch is dead. I thought she was already dead.

Excellent post, R227. It's tempting to imagine what was REALLY going through her mind all those decades after her career collapsed by her own doing.

[quote]I thought she was already dead.

Just her career and her first marriage.

R227 R229 She went on Maury & ET back in 1992 trying to portray herself as a victim by getting nasty things in the mail for example.

She also said she was afraid to go to New York CIty after her downfall LOL.

They were both on YouTube at 1 point.

It actually may have been because of her singing.

The very fact that her career collapsed because of her anti-gay views shows that all of America thought she had gone too far

There will soon be maggots eating up her pussy

Ironically, and sadly, Bryant's career would probably not have collapsed if she started her hateful anti-gay crusade today, because tragically, now such hatred and bigotry is openly accepted and trumpeted (pardon the pun) by a much larger percentage of the population than in the 1970s.

The Florida orange juice industry dumped Anita because of the effective boycott and the negative publicity they were receiving.

Those mega-growers and corporate processors should have rejected their advertising agencies hiring her in the first place, or at leased dismissed her upon the first time she uttered gay hate rhetoric while under contract.

MAGA would have raised her up as a heroine

yet they didn't

I found it interesting that she lost followers from the other direction due to her divorce.

When's the cunt's funeral?

they drew her body in a ditch

I also found it interesting that by the mid 1960s she had already focused primarily on religious themed albums/ gospel music labels.

IMDB shows one of her last appearances on your mainstream variety shows was the WELK show singing Mame / so that would have been 1967 or so.

After that with the rise of rock music /Woodstock era she was only primarily on the conservative, religious circuit. With the orange juice commercials I always thought of her as more mainstream.

I wonder who was all involved with her going public in 1977 with all the hate.

Are there really a significant number of ultra-conservative religious people who turn their back on divorcees? I thought this was an area in which those people are especially hypocritical, as I'm sure there must be a significant amount of divorce among them, even though it's considered a "sin."

Interview with Anita’s son from 2012. I wonder which of her kids has the lesbian daughter?

[quote] all

[quote] Are there really a significant number of ultra-conservative religious people who turn their back on divorcees? I thought this was an area in which those people are especially hypocritical, as I'm sure there must be a significant amount of divorce among them, even though it's considered a "sin."

It’s pretty rare now but there will still a lot of people alive in 1980 who were raised during a time when divorce was still quite taboo.

[quote]When's the cunt's funeral?

She died in mid-December, so presumbably it's already happened.

Instead of a funeral, they ran her body through an industrial orange juicer.

[quote]I thought this was an area in which those people are especially hypocritical,

Indeed they are. Rules for thee, not for me. They get to ditch their spouses when and as they want, but if other people do the same then the finger pointing starts.

Nelson Rockefeller, who before his 1961 divorce was favored for the Republican presidential nomination.

There are Republicans n Congress who want to ban no-fault divorce. And JD Vance thinks women should stay in violent marriages

Did she know her granddaughter likes getting her pussy diddled by other women?

Yes, she did. Her granddaughter told her,

She should've SHOWED her.

R251, both of those things are absolutely incredible to me, as I'm sure MANY Republicans have been and will continue to be divorcees. In the same way that I simply cannot understand how any Republican politicians would ever even suggest that Social Security should be cut back or eliminated, given how many millions of their own constituents must benefit from SS.

Abortion is a little different, because while of course there will ALWAYS be Republicans who want abortions, I assume the thinking there is that rich Republicans will have no problem paying to have them done quietly and illegally, and of course, the pols simply don't care about poor Repubs even though they help greatly to elect them.

But now....come to think of it, maybe that does apply SS and divorce as well. In all cases, I guess poor Repubs gladly support pols who would remove their SS benefits and their right to abortion because THEY'RE JUST SO FUCKING STUPID that they can't think ahead to how the outcome will affect them personally and not just the people they hate.

[quote]It’s pretty rare now but there will still a lot of people alive in 1980 who were raised during a time when divorce was still quite taboo.

That was the year Reagan was elected, and there was a LOT written and said about America electing its first divorced president.

[quote]I wonder which of her kids has the lesbian daughter?

Bob Jr.'s daughter.

The funeral website had details of her memorial service before it was taken down. I imagine the comments were interesting to say the least. I can’t blame her family for not announcing it until after the holidays. They knew what was coming and perhaps wanted a little peace before the storm.

Jerry Fatwell was using her as a Xtian spokesmodel, and whispering in her ear about political ambitions.

[Quote] That was the year Reagan was elected, and there was a LOT written and said about America electing its first divorced president.

An example of how the political right creates these social taboos and then ignores them when their preferred candidate does them. Reagan broke the divorce taboo. Romney broke the Mormon taboo. Trump broke the philanderer taboo.

thanks for posting R259 / that article really takes you back / lots of terrific detail

R260, of course, Trump has broken many taboos that once existed but no longer do.

Falwell was as vile as Anita. Awful man.

But she was nice to ME

R264, I really hate that shit -- when people basically say, "I'm well aware that So-and-So behaved horribly towards and treated many other people very badly, but since So-and-So was nice to me personally, I don't really care about any of that stuff, and I'm going to speak well of them anyway."

what a CUNT

When I complained to my adult niece about my sister’s proud, open, racism, she defended her by noting how well this sister got along with the Black caregivers of her mother, another sister. I strongly pushed back, pointing out these caregivers played a subservient role. And how slaveholders so often got on famously with their charges. It was only later that I realized that my niece & sister harbor very similar racial views.

R248 "Instead of a funeral, they ran her body through an industrial orange juicer. "

That sounds like pulp fiction to me.

Well played, R268 :-)

She was such a pretty young lass.

Anybody wanting to comment on her death can do so here.

^ Yuck, the people there are praising her, they probably edit out any negative comments

I tried leaving a somewhat reasonable sounding critique/tribute to her that says what needs to be said. We'll see if they actually post it.

I used to work with him, R244.

R271, my favorite comment is "Some said her voice was like angles singing."

Oh, Dear!

Sharp angles!

Anita graduated from high school with David Gates from Bread and went to school with Leon Russell and Elvin Bishop.

"Ms. Bryant was ostracized for her own beliefs."

Well, yes, she was "ostracized" by the people she hated simply because they were homosexual -- as well as by all straight people who weren't mindless, idiotic, hate-filled bigots.

People bitch about "cancel culture" but some people deserve to be canceled and she's one of them

Agreed, R279. Cancel culture is a bad thing when it's all about a knee-jerk reaction to some relatively minor statement or action that gets blown up out of all proportion, but that certainly was not the case with Anita Bryant.

She devoted her life to being hateful and ignorant. Quite the accomplishment.

What's left of the gay bars should come up a banana cream shot in her honor of her demise. How about a Pie Face?

PieFace thread.

Did the top six orange growers in Florida serve as her pallbearers?

By orange growers do you mean Trump supporters?

Her "beliefs" like those of all evangelicals, were a fraud.

[quote] How blessed she was to have lived in a nation, a free democracy, where she could express her own sincerely-held beliefs, without repercussion from government, in a manner enabling her to be embraced, even exalted, by those of shared beliefs. She could freely speak her mind and believe in her convictions without interference by the Caesars of our times and without having to suffer a mind encumbered by those intricate twin tablets of reason and logic, which could be worrisome or troubling to a person of belief, and that could, in those of perhaps lesser fortitude than her, cause doubt, resentment and self-recrimination. Her strength and commitment in maintaining her beliefs and faith when facing, nay confronting, the facts, science and reason that were used by others to confront her beliefs, was a marvel to witness and caused one to be stunned in the face of her continued stone-like countenance. Her commitment to her beliefs and faith seemingly never wavered. “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” - Psalm 126:5-6

Now that she is dead, it's tempting to think whether Bryant has found an afterlife that was anything remotely like what she probably envisioned, or.....something completely different.

Or no afterlife at all.

[quote]Or no afterlife at all.

Which means no element of surprise for Anita.

Indeed, R289. My guess -- and of course, it's just a guess -- is that there is no afterlife in which we retain consciousness after we die, so it's likely she will never in any sense be conscious that everything she was taught to believe about God, heaven, etc. was not true.

It looks like there’s going to be a documentary on her.

What words of comfort do you have for those who knew Anita Bryant?

Bobby, Gloria, Billy and Barbara - I recall your Mother’s love of fowls. We once rescued a baby bird that had fallen from his nest. Your lovely Mother fed that baby by chewing feed and spitting it into its mouth. She was your Mom!

her bullshit is being played out again approx 50 years later....

unbelievable really.

For the love of God, where are all our gay leaders stepping up and carrying on the tradition of creatively shaming our haters? Everyone just a keyboard warrior now.

R294, what have you done? You know, apart from being a Datalounge keyboard warrior.

Actually R295 I was quite active in my younger years with ActUp and other pro-gay political groups. Thank you for asking. What's your excuse? What events have you actually put the risk of being put in jail for except keyboard warrior?

I wonder what she looks like now.

I was at the AB101 veto riot, I've marched on Washington, I have physically fought homophobes....

Sorry, I am bumping this thread just because the last few weeks have been depressing and this was a very good day. I would like another day like this one.

Joy!

Big deal. Trump and now the entire Republican party are doing more harm to LGBTQ movement than anything Anita Bryant dreamed. Their anti DEI is reversing decades of progress for the cause, not to mention civil rights progress, and other minorities, even womens rights. If you are a straight white male, you're fine. Otherwise you will be seen as part of the DEI agenda and freely discriminated against.