Ana Bryant and the fight over gay rights Da County, Florida, 1977.

Contents:

• 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
• ANA BRYANT’S WAR ON GAY RIGHTS
• GRANDDGHTER OF FAMED ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST ANNOUNC ENGAGEMENT TO WOMAN
• WILL FAMO ANTI-GAY ANA BRYANT ATTEND LBIAN GRANDKID’S WEDDG?
• BOB GREEN, ANA BRYANT’S EX-HBAND DIED FULL OF HATRED, BIGOTRY, AND BLAMG THE GAYS TILL THE BTER END

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

A recent ordance had granted gay people hog and employment protectns, and that meant teachers uldn’t be fired bee of their sexualy. 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.

Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by s opponents. “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.

“In the prent environment, you n’t go after homosexual teachers anymore, ” Farman said. And so Florida has found another way to do by this ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, which don’t go after homosexual teachers precisely. That is, that homosexualy is a pariah stat, and shouldn’t be discsed the public schools.

ANA BRYANT’S WAR ON GAY RIGHTS

Her mpaign and the subsequent “Save Our Children” polil aln ed the argument that “homosexuals nnot reproduce, so they mt rec.

GRANDDGHTER OF FAMED ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST ANNOUNC ENGAGEMENT TO WOMAN

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.

When a gay activist threw a pie her face durg a news nference, she immediately prayed for the man to be “livered om his viant liftyle. ”“Deviance” was part of Bryant’s re argument that homosexualy was evil and that LGBTQ people didn’t serve rights. If we label homosexualy a civil rights issue, what is to stop “the murrer om shoutg ‘murrer rights’”?

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

Bryant wrote her 1977 book, “The Ana Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Natn’s Fai and the Threat of Milant Homosexualy. 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.

BOB GREEN, ANA BRYANT’S EX-HBAND DIED FULL OF HATRED, BIGOTRY, AND BLAMG THE GAYS TILL THE BTER END

” Though Bryant did enjoy some addnal years of fame, her anti-gay rhetoric ultimately ed her reer prospects to plummet. Bryant reportedly rpond by sayg homosexualy isn’t real. Sger Ana Bryant spearhead the anti-gay rights movement Miami the 1970s.