Which one--his wife or Anita Bryant?
She's called out in the lyrics to Manana.
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer and political activist, known for
anti-gay activism. She scored three Top 20 hits in the United States in the early 1960s.
[1] She was the 1958
Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1980 for the
Florida Citrus Commission.
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In the 1970s, Bryant became known as an outspoken opponent of
gay rights in the U.S. In 1977, she ran the "
Save Our Children" campaign to repeal a local ordinance in
Miami-Dade County, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Her involvement with the campaign was condemned by gay rights activists. They were assisted by many other prominent figures in music, film, and television, and retaliated by
boycotting the orange juice that she promoted. Though the campaign ended successfully with a 69% majority vote to repeal the ordinance on June 7, 1977 (Dade County restored the ordinance in 1998), it permanently damaged her public image, and her contract with the Florida Citrus Commission was terminated three years later. This, as well as her later divorce from Bob Green, damaged her financially.
[3] Bryant never regained her former prominence and filed for bankruptcy twice. She lives in her home state of Oklahoma, runs the Oklahoma City-based Anita Bryant Ministries International, and works with a host of charities and non-profits.
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