Another Pie the Face for Ana Bryant: Her Granddghter Is Gay

Contents:

• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• IS BILL BRYANT GAY?
• WHEN REAGAN SAID GAY
• HARRY BRANT WIKI, GAY, BOYIEND, DGS, CSE OF DEATH, GIRLIEND, NET WORTH, PARENTS, OBUARY, INSTAGRAM
• ANA BRYANT’S WAR ON GAY RIGHTS
• HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• THE GRANDDGHTER OF A NOTOR ANTI-GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS MARRYG A WOMAN — AND SHE'S NOT SURE WHETHER TO VE HER GRANDMOTHER TO THE WEDDG
• WILL FAMO ANTI-GAY ANA BRYANT ATTEND LBIAN GRANDKID’S WEDDG?
• THE GRANDDGHTER OF A NOTOR ANTI-GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS MARRYG A WOMAN - AND SHE'S NOT SURE WHETHER TO VE HER GRANDMOTHER TO THE WEDDG

'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY

Florida classrooms quickly beme a battleground, and opponents of the ordance said the state’s support of civil rights for homosexuals was gg on their rights as parents. “It’s a ntemporary versn on the olr attempts to annul homosexualy, ” said Lillian Farman, thor of “The Gay Revolutn, ” among other queer history tl. Bryant paired this wh her Christian fah, tellg Playboy magaze 1978 that her posn “was not taken out of homophobia, but out of love” for gay people.

IS BILL BRYANT GAY?

She took her msage across the untry, and for the next three years was named “The Most Admired Woman Ameri” Good Hoekeepg’s annual Bryant fueled the ia that gays were harmful to children, the blueprt for this type of rhetoric had been laid nearly 20 years before, also the state of Florida Legislative Invtigatn Commtee (monly referred to as the Johns Commtee, after Charley Johns, s first chairman) was tablished 1956, and was born out of opposn to the segregatn of schools and the pursu of “munists. “Charley Johns’s argument was that of, the homosexuals are pervertg our youth bee they’re teachg our youth llege, and high school, and elementary school, and we have to get rid of them so they won’t turn young people to homosexuals, ” Farman said.

Though the mtee was terred om s vtigatn to the NAACP, s roots opposn to segregatn and s evolutn om racist opposn to homophobic opprsn is clear, historians say. In 1977, the -executive directors of the Natnal Gay Task Force wrote a thank you The New York Tim to Bryant and her Save Our Children anizatn, sayg they were “dog the 20 ln lbians and gay men Ameri an enormo favor: They are focg for the public the nature of the prejudice and discrimatn we face.

WHEN REAGAN SAID GAY

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" FOLLOW THE MONEY: MLB player salari and payrolls for every major league teamHis g out follows a summer which Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib and Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop also me out as gay.

HARRY BRANT WIKI, GAY, BOYIEND, DGS, CSE OF DEATH, GIRLIEND, NET WORTH, PARENTS, OBUARY, INSTAGRAM

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ANA BRYANT’S WAR ON GAY RIGHTS

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“She would not stop talkg about the right man g along, and I jt snapped, ” Green said, addg that she told her grandmother: 'I hope that he don't e along, bee I'm gay, and I don't want a man to e along. She lnched her notor “Save Our Children” mpaign rponse to a historic 1977 gay rights ordance Da County, Fla., which ma one of the first unti to ban employment and hog discrimatn based on sexual ’s mpaign adopted the mantra, “Homosexuals nnot reproduce, so they mt rec, ” champng relig pury and aimg to protect children om supposed anti-Christian valu.

HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977

But on a more posive note, a prott agast Bryant 1977 also beme a timels symbol of queer rilience: While speakg to reporters at a D Mo, Iowa prs nference about her anti-gay csa, activist Tom Higgs famoly pied her the face. Dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by crics, the legislatn would mandate that “classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. ”By permtg parents to sue school districts that fail to enforce s vague provisns, the act would effectively bar classroom discsn and dividual exprsn on a wi range of subjects not necsarily limed to homosexualy and genr inty.

Gay stunts and the children of same-sex upl, for stance, would likely be hibed om talkg about their liv, and teachers uld face the wrath of angry parents simply for discsg historil events volvg gay people, such as the adly 2016 attack on a gay nightclub bill’s proponents sist that the measure has nothg to do wh harmg the digny of gay dividuals but rather is aimed at ensurg age-appropriate sexual tn. In 1988 the Brish Parliament passed a measure preventg lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” or “the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship. Ten years later, the Rsian Duma unanimoly passed legislatn “for the purpose of protectg children om rmatn advotg for a nial of tradnal fay valu” prohibg the dissematn of “propaganda” of nontradnal sexual Asenc-Rhe/Tampa Bay Tim, via Associated PrsWhile brandg gay people as child molters has been a staple of right-wg rhetoric around the world, there has long existed a stra of Amerin libertarian nservatism that ems the legal enshrement of such prejudic as an vasn of privacy and a dangero enhancement of state power.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

”Much like the current Florida bill, the Briggs Iniative was ambiguoly word, such that would have permted the firg of not jt gay teachers but also anyone who spoke out on their behalf.

THE GRANDDGHTER OF A NOTOR ANTI-GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS MARRYG A WOMAN — AND SHE'S NOT SURE WHETHER TO VE HER GRANDMOTHER TO THE WEDDG

The measure was part of a natnal backlash agast the advancement of gay rights that began the prev year wh a mpaign by the Florida Cs Commissn spokwoman and gospel sger Ana Bryant to repeal an ordance Miami’s Da County that prohibed discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn.

A Field poll published September 1978 found 61 percent of California voters supported banng gay teachers, a figure nsistent wh natnal proponents of Proposn 6 lookg at what seemed like an unobstcted path to victory, those opposn wonred what one of the state’s most popular Republins, s former ernor Ronald Reagan, thought about the measure. After takg a beatg the prs, he eventually admted to firg the ais and publicly lled homosexualy a “tragic illns” that “should rema illegal. Reagan, wh his Hollywood background, was more faiar wh gay people than the average Amerin and that the former actor was an advote for limed ernment and dividual rights.

Reagan’s own language: “Anarchy, ” he told the former ernor, who had ed that word to scribe mp unrt at Berkeley, would be unleashed classrooms statewi as stunts lodged spur charg of homosexualy agast their teachers.

WILL FAMO ANTI-GAY ANA BRYANT ATTEND LBIAN GRANDKID’S WEDDG?

” He ma a more substantive se his syndited lumn published a week before the electn, refutg the claim that gays had a greater propensy to be child molters and the nard that they joed the teachg profsn to rec imprsnable Electn Day, voters rejected Proposn 6, 58 percent to 42 percent, a nearly exact reversal of what the polls dited jt two months earlier.

THE GRANDDGHTER OF A NOTOR ANTI-GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS MARRYG A WOMAN - AND SHE'S NOT SURE WHETHER TO VE HER GRANDMOTHER TO THE WEDDG

Reagan monstrated regard to gay teachers was sorely lackg durg his princy, when he spent years ignorg the AIDS crisis, refg even to mentn the name of the disease killg thoands of gay men until his send Ms. Bryant’s nox Save Our Children mpaign of the late 1970s, today’s effort at stigmatizg gay people fds popular backg, wh some 51 percent of Amerins supportg laws to ban classroom discsns of sexual orientatn.