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• BOB GREEN, ANA BRYANT’S EX-HBAND DIED FULL OF HATRED, BIGOTRY, AND BLAMG THE GAYS TILL THE BTER END
• BOB GREEN, ANTI-GAY BIGOT, DI AS RENTFUL AS HE LIVED
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• BOB GAY | TEAM | HGGC
• ‘MAD MEN’: IS BOB BENSON GAY? PROBABLY NOT

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

Bob Green, was a one time rad DJ who married Miss Oklahoma and orange juice spokman Ana Bryant and managed her reer and then followed her to anti-gay activism, which ultimately stroyed their reers — and marriage 1980. For more than 30 years Green lived alone full of hate and rentment blamg gays for all of his problems. Green and Bryant led a succsful effort to repeal Miami-Da County’s newly passed gay rights ordance, Bryant out ont and the tall, handsome Green behd the scen, as he had been when he managed her sgg reer…….

BOB GREEN, ANTI-GAY BIGOT, DI AS RENTFUL AS HE LIVED

Flh wh victory Miami-Da, the uple found Ana Bryant Mistri, which offered “programmg” and halfway ho for gays and a lecture seri lled “Dign for Succsful Livg, ” aimed at battlg divorce..

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

Green told the Miami Herald that he blamed gay people for the turmoil his life bee “their stated goal was to put [Bryant] out of bs and stroy her reer. ” And that the Bryants’ are the “origator” of the lie that children would be molted or nverted by gay perverts. “As a mother, ” Ana shamelsly explaed, “I know that homosexuals nnot blogilly reproduce children; therefore, they mt rec our children.

Bryant and Greene fanned the flam of anti-gay bigotry wh speakg tours that ma her a natnal spokperson agast “homosexual rights.

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

” She was the star attractn at ralli that led to the repeal of gay rights numero ci, and she me to California to support the Briggs Iniative 1978, which failed, but would have banned homosexuals or anyone advotg the “gay liftyle” om teachg public schools. “I don’t hate the homosexuals, ” she wrote a fundraisg letter.

” and promised she would “seek help and change for homosexuals, whose sick and sad valu belie the word ‘gay’ which they pathetilly e to ver their unhappy liv. Behd the scen, however, he played an important role creatg the "culture war" that still plagu this Bryant, the anti-gay csar, was his wife.

Her mercials hawkg orange juice ma her a faiar face Amerin livg rooms, somethg she ed to her advantage 1977 when she and Bob lnched their anti-gay mpaign.

BOB GAY | TEAM | HGGC

The uple trotted out all the ual anti-gay stereotyp, right down to namg their anizatn Save Our mpaign rulted numero pyts workg to repeal anti-discrimatn laws around the untry -- but only those anti-discrimatn laws that protected the LGBT muny. Jerry Falwell shed to Miami to support her but stole the lucrative anti-gay issue om unr her by formg his Moral addn to phg the ual stereotyp, Bryant even claimed that her "mistry" was pable of "curg" gay people through prayer. Save Our Children origated most of the talkg pots still ed by the relig right regard to gay people.

‘MAD MEN’: IS BOB BENSON GAY? PROBABLY NOT

Some rried prott signs mandg that gay people be executed.

Others serly told me that the prence of homosexuals ed droughts. I jokgly asked if were possible to ntrol floodg by bg homosexuals, and one person serly told me would had a ncert/rally schled South Bend on the Oct. He blamed gays, sayg, "Blame gay people?

He enuraged the csa that lost her the spokwoman reer, and they uldn't out-pete Falwell the anti-gay The Miami Herald Steve Roths wrote, "For more than 30 years, Mr.