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For the 2011 operation against child pornography also known as Operation Save Our Children, see <a href="/wiki/Operation_Protect_Our_Children" title="Operation Protect Our Children">Operation Protect Our Children</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Save_Our_Children_From_Homosexuality_Brochure.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Save_Our_Children_From_Homosexuality_Brochure.jpg/170px-Save_Our_Children_From_Homosexuality_Brochure.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="424" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Save_Our_Children_From_Homosexuality_Brochure.jpg/255px-Save_Our_Children_From_Homosexuality_Brochure.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Save_Our_Children_From_Homosexuality_Brochure.jpg 2x" data-file-width="308" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Brochure used by Save Our Children in 1977</figcaption></figure> Save Our Children, Inc. was an American political coalition formed in 1977 in <a href="/wiki/Miami,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Miami, Florida">Miami, Florida</a>, to overturn a recently legislated county ordinance that banned discrimination in areas of housing, employment, and public accommodation based on <a href="/wiki/Sexual_orientation" title="Sexual orientation">sexual orientation</a>. The coalition was publicly headed by celebrity singer <a href="/wiki/Anita_Bryant" title="Anita Bryant">Anita Bryant</a>, who claimed the ordinance discriminated against her right to teach her children <a href="/wiki/Ethics_in_the_Bible" title="Ethics in the Bible">biblical morality</a>.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> It was a well-organized campaign that initiated a bitter political fight between gay activists and <a href="/wiki/Christian_fundamentalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian fundamentalist">Christian fundamentalists</a>. When the repeal of the ordinance went to a vote, it attracted the largest response of any special election in <a href="/wiki/Miami-Dade_County,_Florida" title="Miami-Dade County, Florida">Dade County</a>'s history, passing by a more than 2-to-1 margin.<a href="#cite_note-nytimes-1977-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[note 1]</a> Save Our Children was the first organized <a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_opposition" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights opposition">opposition to the gay rights movement</a>, whose beginnings were traced to the <a href="/wiki/Stonewall_riots" title="Stonewall riots">Stonewall riots</a> in 1969. The defeat of the ordinance encouraged groups in other cities to attempt to overturn similar laws. In the next year voters in <a href="/wiki/St._Paul,_Minnesota" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Paul, Minnesota">St. Paul, Minnesota</a>; <a href="/wiki/Wichita,_Kansas" title="Wichita, Kansas">Wichita, Kansas</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Eugene,_Oregon" title="Eugene, Oregon">Eugene, Oregon</a>, overturned ordinances in those cities, sharing many of the same campaign strategies that were used in Miami. Save Our Children was also involved in <a href="/wiki/Seattle,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Seattle, Washington">Seattle, Washington</a>, where they were unsuccessful, and heavily influenced <a href="/wiki/Briggs_Initiative" class="mw-redirect" title="Briggs Initiative">Proposition 6</a>, a proposed state law in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> that would have made the firing of <a href="/wiki/Coming_out" title="Coming out">openly</a> <a href="/wiki/Gay" title="Gay">gay</a> public school employees mandatory, which was rejected by California voters in 1978. Historians have since connected the success of Save Our Children with the organization of conservative Christian participation in political processes. Although "occasional antigay appeals from the right" existed prior to the campaign, "the <a href="/wiki/New_Right" title="New Right">new right</a> struck pure gold in Anita Bryant. A mother, celebrity singer, former Miss America ... the chirpy Bryant was the ideal model for its antigay crusade."<a href="#cite_note-4">[3]</a> Within two years <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Falwell" title="Jerry Falwell">Jerry Falwell</a> developed a coalition of conservative religious groups named the <a href="/wiki/Moral_Majority" title="Moral Majority">Moral Majority</a> that influenced the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> to incorporate a social agenda in national politics. Homosexuality, the <a href="/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment" title="Equal Rights Amendment">Equal Rights Amendment</a> (ERA), <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornography</a> were among the issues most central to the Moral Majority's priorities until it folded in 1989. For many gay people, the surprise at the outcome of all the campaigns in 1977 and 1978 instilled a new determination and consolidated activism and communities in many cities where the gay community had not been politically active. Despite its success, Save Our Children brought widespread opposition and <a href="/wiki/Boycott" title="Boycott">boycotts</a> towards Bryant by the LGBT community and its supporters in the entertainment industry, tarnishing her reputation and ending her career as an entertainer. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background">edit</a>]</div> On January 18, 1977, the <a href="/wiki/Dade_County_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Dade County Commission">Dade County Commission</a> approved a law that would outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing, and public services.<a href="#cite_note-nyt1/18/1977-5">[4]</a> Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Shack" title="Ruth Shack">Ruth Shack</a> proposed the bill on December 7, 1976, at the request of a gay lobbying organization, named the Dade County Coalition for the Humanistic Rights of Gays, that was less than a year old. The group was headed by three gay activists: Jack Campbell, an owner of 40 <a href="/wiki/Gay_bathhouse" title="Gay bathhouse">gay bathhouses</a> across the United States, political and gay activist <a href="/wiki/Bob_Basker" title="Bob Basker">Bob Basker</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Kunst" title="Bob Kunst">Bob Kunst</a>, a local publicist and enthusiast of the <a href="/wiki/Human_Potential_Movement" title="Human Potential Movement">Human Potential Movement</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Homosexuality_in_Miami">Homosexuality in Miami</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Homosexuality in Miami">edit</a>]</div> The general attitude about homosexuality in Miami mirrored many other cities across the country. Although gay nightlife in the city had enjoyed the same boisterous existence as other forms of entertainment in the 1930s, by the 1950s, the city government worked to shut down as many gay bars as possible and enacted laws making homosexuality and cross-dressing illegal.<a href="#cite_note-6">[5]</a> From 1956 to 1966, the <a href="/wiki/Florida_Legislative_Investigation_Committee" title="Florida Legislative Investigation Committee">Johns Committee</a> of the Florida Legislature actively sought to root out homosexuals in state employment and in public universities across the state, publishing the inflammatory "<a href="/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Citizenship_in_Florida" title="Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida">Purple Pamphlet</a>," which described homosexuals in Florida.<a href="#cite_note-7">[6]</a> In the 1960s, <a href="/wiki/The_Miami_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="The Miami Herald">The Miami Herald</a> ran several stories implying the life of area homosexuals as synonymous with <a href="/wiki/Pimp" class="mw-redirect" title="Pimp">pimps</a> and <a href="/wiki/Child_molester" class="mw-redirect" title="Child molester">child molesters</a>, and <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> aired a documentary entitled <a href="/wiki/CBS_Reports:_The_Homosexuals" class="mw-redirect" title="CBS Reports: The Homosexuals">"The Homosexuals"</a> in 1967, warning viewers that young boys were in danger from predatory men.<a href="#cite_note-8">[7]</a> The public image of homosexuals changed with liberalized social attitudes of the late 1960s. In 1969, the <a href="/wiki/Stonewall_riots" title="Stonewall riots">Stonewall riots</a> occurred in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, marking the start of the <a href="/wiki/Gay_rights_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay rights movement">gay rights movement</a>. Although gay life in Miami was intensely closeted, and bars were subject to frequent raids, Christ <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Community_Church" title="Metropolitan Community Church">Metropolitan Community Church</a>—a congregation for gay and lesbian Christians in Miami—was founded in 1970 as a religious outlet, attracting hundreds of parishioners. The <a href="/wiki/1972_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1972 Democratic National Convention">1972 Democratic National Convention</a> was held in Miami, featuring, for the first time, a public speech about the rights of <a href="/wiki/Gay_men" title="Gay men">gay men</a> and lesbians by <a href="/wiki/Coming_out" title="Coming out">openly</a> gay <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> political activist <a href="/wiki/Jim_Foster_(activist)" title="Jim Foster (activist)">Jim Foster</a>. Jack Campbell opened the Miami branch of <a href="/wiki/Club_Baths" title="Club Baths">Club Baths</a> in 1974. When it was raided, he made sure that all charges against those arrested were dropped, filed a lawsuit against the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Police_Department" title="Miami Police Department">Miami Police Department</a> prohibiting further harassment, and received a formal apology from the police.<a href="#cite_note-9">[8]</a> Even the depiction of gay men and lesbians in the local newspaper had changed to that of a silent, oppressed minority.<a href="#cite_note-10">[9]</a> By 1977, Miami was one of nearly 40 cities in the U.S. that had passed ordinances outlawing discrimination against gay men and lesbians.<a href="#cite_note-tanasychuk-11">[10]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reaction_to_the_ordinance">Reaction to the ordinance</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reaction to the ordinance">edit</a>]</div> When the news of the ordinance proposal was reported in December 1976, a small ripple of protest spread from local churches. Northwest Baptist Church announced it from the pulpit. The news worried one of the church members named <a href="/wiki/Anita_Bryant" title="Anita Bryant">Anita Bryant</a>, who was a 36-year-old singer/celebrity.<a href="#cite_note-newsweek-12">[11]</a> Bryant began her career as a local child star on a television show in <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City" title="Oklahoma City">Oklahoma City</a> and on <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Godfrey%27s_Talent_Scouts" title="Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts">Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts</a>. Her young life was marked by frequent moves; her parents divorced each other twice, and she often lived in poverty conditions, but she became a <a href="/wiki/Born_again_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Born again Christian">born again Christian</a> at eight years old, and counted her faith and her participation at church as the stabilizing influences in her life.<a href="#cite_note-newsweek-12">[11]</a> As a child, she asked God to make her a star. She was, by her own admission, remarkably driven and ambitious.<a href="#cite_note-playboy-13">[12]</a> In her older teens she became a <a href="/wiki/Beauty_pageant" title="Beauty pageant">beauty pageant</a> contestant, winning <a href="/wiki/Miss_Oklahoma" title="Miss Oklahoma">Miss Oklahoma</a> and second runner-up as <a href="/wiki/Miss_America" title="Miss America">Miss America</a>.<a href="#cite_note-14">[13]</a> In 1960, she married a Miami <a href="/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey">disc jockey</a> named Bob Green and became a professional singer, finding some success with three <a href="/wiki/Gold_record" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold record">gold records</a> featuring popular, patriotic, and Gospel standards. She performed with the Bob Hope Christmas tour, entertaining troops serving overseas, and sang at President <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyndon Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a>'s funeral in 1973. Since 1969 she had been employed regionally by the Florida Citrus Commission endorsing Florida orange juice in television commercials. She also advertised for <a href="/wiki/Coca-Cola" title="Coca-Cola">Coca-Cola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tupperware" title="Tupperware">Tupperware</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kraft_Foods" title="Kraft Foods">Kraft Foods</a> and <a href="/wiki/Holiday_Inn" title="Holiday Inn">Holiday Inn</a>. Bryant's talent agent was married to Ruth Shack; Bryant had contributed $1,000 to her campaign.<a href="#cite_note-15">[14]</a> Initially Bryant kept her concerns low-key, despite her pastor's pleadings to become involved. She wrote a letter to the county commission and called Ruth Shack, expressing her concerns.<a href="#cite_note-16">[15]</a> Her most significant objection to the ordinance was that it would allow homosexuals to work in <a href="/wiki/Parochial_school" title="Parochial school">parochial schools</a>; all four of Bryant's children attended a local private Christian school.<a href="#cite_note-17">[16]</a> She admitted she was largely ignorant of any specific dangers homosexuals presented, but when she was sent graphic images of homosexual acts, and shown photos of <a href="/wiki/Child_pornography" title="Child pornography">child pornography</a> by a local police sergeant visiting her church, she was horrified.<a href="#cite_note-18">[note 2]</a> Bryant credited her inspiration later to her 9-year-old daughter suggesting God could assist with her cause; then she decided to take a more public role.<a href="#cite_note-newsweek-12">[11]</a> At the time of the commission's vote in January, the boardroom was crowded with people who held some kind of interest in the issue. Busloads of churchgoers arrived from as far away as <a href="/wiki/Homestead,_Florida" title="Homestead, Florida">Homestead</a> and picketed outside; there was no corresponding organized show of support for the ordinance.<a href="#cite_note-19">[17]</a> Inside the boardroom, supporters and opposers took the entire allotted time to speak. Bryant reflected most of those opposing the law, telling the Dade County Commission, "The ordinance condones immorality and discriminates against my children's rights to grow up in a healthy, decent community".<a href="#cite_note-nyt1/18/1977-5">[4]</a> The few members of the Dade County Coalition for the Humanistic Rights of Gays who were present were stunned, as was Ruth Shack, at the number and force of the hundreds of protesters who filled the commission room, and held placards and pickets outside.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The ordinance passed by a 5–3 vote.<a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dade_County_ordinance_77-4">Dade County ordinance 77-4</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Dade County ordinance 77-4">edit</a>]</div> After the ordinance passed, over thirty conservative political professionals and ministers from various faiths met in Bryant and Green's home to discuss a plan to raise publicity and attempt to get at least 10,000 signatures on a petition to force the issue to be decided by a county voter referendum. They approved the name "Save Our Children, Inc.", and voted Bryant their president, Bob Green treasurer and a man named Robert Brake—a devout Catholic with a record of civil rights participation, but increasingly concerned with the liberalization of Miami city politics—its secretary.<a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a> With the assistance of a Republican-affiliated advertising executive named Mike Thompson, the coalition eschewed subtlety. They held a press conference where Bryant held a pamphlet about homosexuality she claimed was being distributed at area high schools (a statement she later retracted<a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a>), and said Dade County homosexuals "are trying to recruit our children into homosexuality".<a href="#cite_note-23">[21]</a> Far exceeding the required number of signatures, the coalition delivered more than 64,000 signatures within six weeks demanding a referendum vote, which the commission set for June 7, 1977.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Strategy">Strategy</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Strategy">edit</a>]</div> Mike Thompson discovered in a poll taken in March 1977 that women in Dade County opposed repealing the measure two to one; they saw their gay friends as relatively harmless. Save Our Children's strategy, therefore, worked to prove that homosexuals were amoral, promiscuous, and defiant of traditional gender roles, and that they were a specific danger to children.<a href="#cite_note-Clendinen,_p._303-24">[22]</a> Bryant took this strategy as a crusade, delivering speeches that intoned that Dade County's passing of the ordinance "guts the law on the side of the unrighteous. If homosexuals are allowed to change the law in their favor, why not prostitutes, thieves, or murderers?"<a href="#cite_note-kondracke-25">[23]</a> She specifically connected homosexuals with child molesters, saying "Some of the stories I could tell you of child recruitment and child abuse by homosexuals would turn your stomach."<a href="#cite_note-kondracke-25">[23]</a> Bryant resented the media depiction of her as hateful, saying that her inspiration came "out of love—not only love for God's commandment and His word, but love for my children and yours. Yes, and even love for all sinners—even homosexuals."<a href="#cite_note-26">[24]</a> The Save Our Children campaign produced a local television commercial showing the "wholesome entertainment" of the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Bowl_(game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orange Bowl (game)">Orange Bowl</a> Parade (which Bryant hosted), contrasting that with highly sexualized images of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Pride" title="San Francisco Pride">San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade</a>, including men in leather harnesses kissing each other, dancing <a href="/wiki/Drag_queen" title="Drag queen">drag queens</a>, and topless women. The commercial's announcer accused Miami's gay community of trying to turn Miami into the "hotbed of homosexuality" that San Francisco had become.<a href="#cite_note-Clendinen,_p._303-24">[22]</a> Full-page newspaper ads were run in <a href="/wiki/The_Miami_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="The Miami Herald">The Miami Herald</a>, showing collections of headlines announcing teachers having sex with their students, children in prostitution rings, and homosexuals involved with youth organizations, followed by the question "Are all homosexuals nice? ... There is no 'human right' to corrupt our children."<a href="#cite_note-27">[25]</a> Although Miami was not the first community to overturn a sexual orientation civil rights law, the Save Our Children campaign became a national political cause. Bryant became the focus of the campaign, as noted by her husband that she was the "first person with a name" to become vocal about homosexuality; gay activists agreed, saying that other cities "haven't had a major personality come out and create a witch hunt. People have lost sight of the issue; the controversy has become personality oriented".<a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a> In opposition to her, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Kunst" title="Bob Kunst">Bob Kunst</a>, who had experience as the publicist of the local municipal soccer team, the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Toros" title="Miami Toros">Miami Toros</a>, was a familiar name to the local press. Kunst, however, remained determined to act as an individual, often taking opportunities to give his views to the press that were not condoned by the Dade County Coalition on the Humanistic Rights of Gays.<a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a> He took the view that it was the sexually enlightened stance to pass the ordinance, and those who opposed it were uptight, including, near the end of the campaign, Florida Governor <a href="/wiki/Reubin_O%27Donovan_Askew" class="mw-redirect" title="Reubin O'Donovan Askew">Reubin Askew</a>. He gave interviews addressing sexual liberation for gay and straight people, in which he freely spoke about <a href="/wiki/Oral_sex" title="Oral sex">oral</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anal_sex" title="Anal sex">anal sex</a>.<a href="#cite_note-clendinen301-30">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Outside_help">Outside help</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Outside help">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Anita_Bryant_Sucks_Oranges_button.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Anita_Bryant_Sucks_Oranges_button.jpg/220px-Anita_Bryant_Sucks_Oranges_button.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Anita_Bryant_Sucks_Oranges_button.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="259" data-file-height="258" /></a><figcaption>Campaign material was distributed around the country, reflecting the personal role Anita Bryant played in the campaign.</figcaption></figure> The gay community in Miami was not well-connected or experienced enough to combat the coalition led by Bryant, so they invited two political organizers to the city: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethan_Geto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ethan Geto (page does not exist)">Ethan Geto</a> from <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Foster_(activist)" title="Jim Foster (activist)">Jim Foster</a> from <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, both of whom were gay. Foster and Geto faced battles not only with the Save Our Children campaign, but the disjointed and often <a href="/wiki/Closeted" title="Closeted">closeted</a> gay community in Miami.<a href="#cite_note-newsweek-12">[11]</a> When organizations outside of Florida promoted <a href="/wiki/Boycott" title="Boycott">boycotting</a> Florida orange juice, Jack Campbell disagreed, worried that an economic backlash in the state would work against local gay men and lesbians.<a href="#cite_note-clendinen301-30">[28]</a> Ruth Shack saw the issue simply, as one of <a href="/wiki/Civil_right" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil right">civil rights</a>; Geto and Foster agreed. Bob Kunst soon broke away from the campaign to promote the <a href="/w/index.php?title=1977%E2%80%931980_Florida_orange_juice_boycott&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1977–1980 Florida orange juice boycott (page does not exist)">orange juice boycott</a>, and his views were often printed in the newspapers to Geto's alarm.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Save Our Children also received help from outside the area. <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> senator <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Helms" title="Jesse Helms">Jesse Helms</a> offered his staff and funding from the <a href="/wiki/Congressional_Club" title="Congressional Club">Congressional Club</a>, and wrote in his column that he was proud of Bryant: "I have pledged my full support to her ... She is fighting for decency and morality in America—and that makes her, in my book, an all-American lady".<a href="#cite_note-young38-31">[29]</a> Pastor <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Falwell" title="Jerry Falwell">Jerry Falwell</a> from <a href="/wiki/Lynchburg,_Virginia" title="Lynchburg, Virginia">Lynchburg, Virginia</a>, lent his support during visits and with the appearance of B. Larry Coy, who served as a marriage counselor to Bryant and Green. Coy and Green took over management of Bryant's ministries.<a href="#cite_note-32">[note 3]</a> Two months before the referendum vote, Bob Green, speaking for Bryant, vowed to lead her cause in all cities in the United States that protected sexual orientation from discrimination, saying that gay activists waged a "disguised attack on God", and Bryant would "lead such a crusade to stop it as this country has not seen before".<a href="#cite_note-33">[30]</a> As information was distributed against the referendum, as much literature was spread expressing local dissatisfaction with Bryant. T-shirts and campaign buttons were produced, showing "Anita Bryant Sucks Oranges" and "Squeeze a fruit for Anita".<a href="#cite_note-paterson-34">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[32]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media">Media</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Media">edit</a>]</div> According to <a href="/wiki/Florida_Atlantic_University" title="Florida Atlantic University">Florida Atlantic University</a> Communications professor Fred Fejes, mainstream newspapers and magazines in the 1970s were hesitant to cover the issues of homosexuality or Christian fundamentalism in detail. Media prided themselves on objective reporting without Biblical judgment and at the same time, reporting was a homophobic profession that suppressed <a href="/wiki/Coming_out" title="Coming out">openly</a> gay reporters and rarely addressed topics involving homosexuality.<a href="#cite_note-fejesmedia-36">[33]</a> As a result, during the 1970s fundamentalist Christians began to develop broadcasting over radio and television in the forms of <a href="/wiki/The_700_Club" title="The 700 Club">The 700 Club</a> run by <a href="/wiki/Pat_Robertson" title="Pat Robertson">Pat Robertson</a>, <a href="/wiki/PTL_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="PTL Club">PTL Club</a> hosted by <a href="/wiki/Jim_Bakker" title="Jim Bakker">Jim</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tammy_Faye_Bakker" class="mw-redirect" title="Tammy Faye Bakker">Tammy Faye Bakker</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Falwell" title="Jerry Falwell">Jerry Falwell</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Old_Time_Gospel_Hour" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Time Gospel Hour">Old Time Gospel Hour</a>. These shows originated as praise and worship-oriented, but slowly incorporated political themes interspersed with messages of Christian faith. Bryant's appearances on the 700 Club and the PTL Club netted the Save Our Children campaign $25,000 in donations, and assured her a position as a national spokesperson for traditional Christian values.<a href="#cite_note-fejesmedia-36">[33]</a> However, when addressing a secular audience, Bryant was not as successful. During debates with Kunst and Shack she rarely made points that went beyond Bible quotes, and prayed when pressed to provide statistics on homosexuals as child molesters. At another appearance, she broke into "<a href="/wiki/The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="The Battle Hymn of the Republic">The Battle Hymn of the Republic</a>" to take up time after she had read a pre-written statement. As California was experiencing a drought, Bryant connected it to their tolerance of liberals and homosexuals, and suggested that other morality laws should be enforced, such as those against <a href="/wiki/Adultery" title="Adultery">adultery</a> and cohabitation out of wedlock. Mike Thompson and Robert Brake soon restricted her to primarily religious shows.<a href="#cite_note-37">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-clendinen306-307-38">[35]</a> At the same time, the gay community promoted their causes using specialty magazines and newspapers. <a href="/wiki/The_Advocate_(LGBT_magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Advocate (LGBT magazine)">The Advocate</a>, a bi-weekly magazine, dedicated every issue starting in April 1977 to raising awareness of the battle taking place in Miami. It was run by <a href="/wiki/David_B._Goodstein" title="David B. Goodstein">David Goodstein</a>, a friend of Jim Foster's who had worked with Foster to create the first gay Democratic club in the U.S. in the <a href="/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas_Memorial_Democratic_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Alice B. Toklas Memorial Democratic Club">Alice B. Toklas Memorial Democratic Club</a>. Goodstein warned that the fight would not end in Miami if the gay community lost, as did the local gay-focus newspapers of Boston's <a href="/wiki/Gay_Community_News_(Boston)" title="Gay Community News (Boston)">Gay Community News</a> and San Francisco's <a href="/wiki/Bay_Area_Reporter" title="Bay Area Reporter">Bay Area Reporter</a>.<a href="#cite_note-fejesmedia-36">[33]</a> Goodstein also suggested Bryant's primary motivation in her actions was furthering her career, or the beginning of "an organized conspiracy to turn (gays) into America's scapegoats".<a href="#cite_note-39">[36]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:350px; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> Suddenly you have this red herring in Anita Bryant. Suddenly you have this wave of anti-gay hysteria and then that was preempting the air waves behind the scenes. </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style=""><a href="/wiki/Betty_Friedan" title="Betty Friedan">Betty Friedan</a>, on the failure of the <a href="/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment" title="Equal Rights Amendment">ERA</a> in Florida</cite> </div> Bryant's star power and her extreme views were highlighted in national news stories. Mainstream news outlets such as <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> and <a href="/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a> reported weekly updates on campaign progress, with smaller local newspapers across the country weighing in their editorial opinions on which side should prevail. Bryant appeared on <a href="/wiki/Good_Morning_America" title="Good Morning America">Good Morning America</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Phil_Donahue_Show" title="The Phil Donahue Show">The Phil Donahue Show</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Her tone and accusations united gay men and lesbians in cities all over the U.S. In the weeks before the vote, almost $55,000 was raised outside of Florida to oppose Save Our Children.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Foreshadowing the effectiveness of the Save Our Children campaign, on April 13, 1977, the <a href="/wiki/Florida_Legislature" title="Florida Legislature">Florida Legislature</a> voted not to ratify the <a href="/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment" title="Equal Rights Amendment">Equal Rights Amendment</a> (ERA), to the astonishment of those anticipating the vote. The connection between the ERA and ordinance 77-4 was obvious to many. Florida Senator <a href="/wiki/Dempsey_J._Barron" title="Dempsey J. Barron">Dempsey Barron</a> vocally opposed passing the ERA, fearing it would legalize <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriages</a>, force people to use unisex bathrooms, and that it would harm laws meant to protect families.<a href="#cite_note-40">[37]</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Organization_for_Women" title="National Organization for Women">National Organization for Women</a> founder and ERA proponent <a href="/wiki/Betty_Friedan" title="Betty Friedan">Betty Friedan</a> expressed her disdain, saying "suddenly you have this red herring in Anita Bryant. Suddenly you have this wave of anti-gay hysteria and then that was preempting the air waves behind the scenes".<a href="#cite_note-41">[38]</a> Washington, D.C., mayor <a href="/wiki/Marion_Barry" title="Marion Barry">Marion Barry</a>, Los Angeles mayor <a href="/wiki/Tom_Bradley_(American_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Bradley (American politician)">Tom Bradley</a>, President <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> all expressed support for the ordinance. In the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Herald" title="Miami Herald">Miami Herald</a>, 51 members of <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch Parliament">Dutch Parliament</a>, ministers, and civil rights advocates from the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> ran a full-page ad stating "We, from the land of <a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne Frank</a>, know where prejudices and discrimination can lead to", advising the voters of Miami-Dade to uphold the ordinance to protect the rights of homosexuals.<a href="#cite_note-42">[39]</a> California <a href="/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly">Assemblyman</a> <a href="/wiki/Willie_Brown_(politician)" title="Willie Brown (politician)">Willie Brown</a> and San Francisco sheriff <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hongisto" title="Richard Hongisto">Richard Hongisto</a> campaigned respectively for Miami's black community and law enforcement. Hongisto returned to California saying that Save Our Children made an issue of the existence of San Francisco when Thompson referred to the city as "a cesspool of perversion gone rampant" and Bob Green expressed doubt that saving San Francisco was possible.<a href="#cite_note-clendinen306-307-38">[35]</a> Reverend Jerry Falwell spoke at a rally as the vote neared, telling the audience, "I want to tell you we are dealing with a vile and vicious and vulgar gang. They'd kill you as quick as look at you."<a href="#cite_note-43">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Community_attitudes">Community attitudes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Community attitudes">edit</a>]</div> Foster and Geto set the public tone of the campaign battling Save Our Children and were determined not to "get down in the gutter with them", refusing to run an ad showing Bryant in a revealing outfit she had worn while performing in 1971, nor run commercials to point out that child molesters were primarily heterosexual. However, they also encountered difficulty when local newspapers refused to run ads that were designed to appeal to Miami's sizable Jewish community, equating Bryant's rhetoric with the same language that many Miami citizens faced during the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust">Holocaust</a>.<a href="#cite_note-44">[41]</a> Twenty-eight of Miami's 34 rabbis agreed with Bryant and her campaign–the president of the Miami Beach <a href="/wiki/B%27nai_B%27rith" title="B'nai B'rith">B'nai B'rith</a> served as an officer of the Save Our Children coalition.<a href="#cite_note-young38-31">[29]</a> Miami's Cuban community came together as never before for the campaign, taking the opportunity to register thousands of voters who had never taken part in politics in the city. Bryant actively campaigned to the Cuban community, telling them at a rally, "You came here to get away from one sin ... and it breaks my heart that if Miami becomes another <a href="/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah" title="Sodom and Gomorrah">Sodom and Gomorrah</a> you may have to leave here, too."<a href="#cite_note-paterson-34">[31]</a> A Cuban social worker suggested the cause was representative of an older generation of <a href="/wiki/Cuban_migration_to_Miami" title="Cuban migration to Miami">Cuban émigrés</a>, worried that their children were being lost in the depravity of Miami.<a href="#cite_note-rich-45">[42]</a> Miami's archbishop wrote a letter against the gay rights ordinance, and ordered it to be read aloud in all Catholic churches.<a href="#cite_note-young38-31">[29]</a> The response from <a href="/wiki/African_Americans_in_Florida" title="African Americans in Florida">Miami's Black community</a> was more conflicted. <a href="/wiki/The_Miami_Times" title="The Miami Times">The Miami Times</a>, a widely respected Black newspaper, called Bryant's tactics "pure bullshit" and urged local Black people not to vote for anything that would discriminate against anyone. However, Black audiences reacted angrily during an appearance featuring Bryant and another with Kunst and white ministers from the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Community_Church" title="Metropolitan Community Church">Metropolitan Community Church</a>.<a href="#cite_note-46">[43]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:350px; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> All America and all the world will hear what the people have said, and with God's continued help, we will prevail in our fight to repeal similar laws throughout the nation which attempt to legitimize a life style that is both perverse and dangerous. </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style=""><a href="/wiki/Anita_Bryant" title="Anita Bryant">Anita Bryant</a>, upon the overwhelming vote that defeated Miami's gay rights ordinance</cite> </div> Due to the intensely closeted nature of Miami's gay community at that time, many voters who were not swayed by Bryant's rhetoric were persuaded instead by her campaign's point that the law was unnecessary; they were unable to see the problem of discrimination. Unlike Black people or Cubans, gay men and lesbians were able to find jobs, although they faced dismissal upon their supervisors learning of their sexual orientation. In order to see a complaint through, they would have to remain out, and many lived in constant fear of exposure.<a href="#cite_note-47">[44]</a> Since the advent of <a href="/wiki/Second_wave_feminism" class="mw-redirect" title="Second wave feminism">second wave feminism</a> earlier in the decade, many lesbians in the U.S. were unable to see themselves as part of the same community with gay men.<a href="#cite_note-48">[45]</a> Accusations from Save Our Children were almost all directed at the behavior of men. As a result, much of the response by gay men was angry and many lesbians took issue with the misogynistic tone gay men used.<a href="#cite_note-49">[46]</a> However, with Bryant representing a common adversary, for the first time in years, gay men and lesbians united to work together on the campaign.<a href="#cite_note-50">[47]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Election_results">Election results</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Election results">edit</a>]</div> The vote results of the special 7 June election were overwhelming. It was the largest turnout in any special election in the history of Dade County. Voters supported repealing the gay rights ordinance by a margin of more than two to one (202,319 votes for repealing and 89,562 for retention of the ordinance). Bryant danced a jig when the response was announced, and told reporters "All America and all the world will hear what the people have said, and with God's continued help, we will prevail in our fight to repeal similar laws throughout the nation which attempt to legitimize a life style that is both perverse and dangerous".<a href="#cite_note-nytimes-1977-2">[2]</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Gay_Task_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="National Gay Task Force">National Gay Task Force</a> (NGTF) co-director <a href="/wiki/Jean_O%27Leary" title="Jean O'Leary">Jean O'Leary</a> said that the result was "all the evidence anyone could need of the extent and virulence of prejudice against lesbians and gay men in our society".<a href="#cite_note-nytimes-1977-2">[2]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Response">Response</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Response">edit</a>]</div> In New York City, <a href="/wiki/Bella_Abzug" title="Bella Abzug">Bella Abzug</a>, who had introduced the first gay civil rights bill in U.S. Congress in 1974, was awoken at 2 am by people in the street chanting her name. "It was hard not to feel sad for this crowd", Abzug said of the several hundred people below her window. She was optimistic, telling them the defeat would develop a maturity and determination in gay activism.<a href="#cite_note-51">[48]</a> About the same time that evening, about 3,000 gay men and lesbians spontaneously gathered in what had become the largest gay neighborhood in the United States—<a href="/wiki/Castro_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Castro District">Castro Street</a> in San Francisco—furious at the loss in Dade County. The crowd marched around the Castro District, chanting "We Are Your Children!" pulling people out of gay bars to cheers.<a href="#cite_note-52">[49]</a> Local gay activist and future supervisor <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Milk" title="Harvey Milk">Harvey Milk</a> led marchers through a 5-mile (8.0 km) course through the city, careful not to stop for too long lest rioting began. He addressed the crowd with a bullhorn: "This is the power of the gay community. Anita's going to create a national gay force".<a href="#cite_note-53">[50]</a> The day after the vote, Jean O'Leary and NGTF co-director <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Voeller" title="Bruce Voeller">Bruce Voeller</a> said Bryant was doing "an enormous favor" for the gay community by focusing national media attention on discrimination against them.<a href="#cite_note-oleary-54">[51]</a> Several weeks later at the <a href="/wiki/Gay_Freedom_Day_Parade" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay Freedom Day Parade">San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade</a>, 250,000 people attended, becoming the largest attendance at any gay event in U.S. history to that point. The largest group of the parade held large placards of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Idi_Amin" title="Idi Amin">Idi Amin</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Cross_burning" title="Cross burning">burning cross</a>, and Anita Bryant. Other cities also saw greater participation in Gay Pride events. People marching in <a href="/wiki/NYC_Pride_March" title="NYC Pride March">New York's Gay Pride</a> observance shouted "No more Miami's". Thousands of people attended events in <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City</a> observed its first Gay Pride demonstration with 30 people.<a href="#cite_note-55">[52]</a> The largest gay newspaper in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> used the Dade County vote as a warning advising gay men and lesbians there to "Get off Your Butts". More than 300 people held a vigil at the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_The_Hague" title="Embassy of the United States, The Hague">American embassy in the Netherlands</a>, accusing the U.S. government of failing to protect their citizens' human rights. Four thousand marchers in <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> were dispersed by rubber bullets. Gay activists in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> and <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> also warned that similar challenges could occur in their cities.<a href="#cite_note-56">[53]</a> In <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, conservative columnist <a href="/wiki/William_Safire" title="William Safire">William Safire</a> wrote that Miami's gay activists had been justifiably defeated: "In the eyes of the vast majority, homosexuality is an abnormality, a mental illness, even—to use an old-fashioned word—a sin. Homosexuality is not the 'alternative lifestyle' the gay activists profess; it may be tolerable, even acceptable—but not approvable."<a href="#cite_note-safire-57">[54]</a> Safire, however, tempered the column (titled "Now Ease Up, Anita") cautioning against Bryant's promised nationwide crusade designed to lead to further repeal of homosexuals' "legitimate civil rights".<a href="#cite_note-safire-57">[54]</a> A <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>-based charity for unprivileged children named <a href="/wiki/Save_the_Children_USA" title="Save the Children USA">Save the Children</a> filed an injunction in July 1977 against the Miami coalition to prevent them from using the name, and Bryant from using it as a title for a book she was writing; Save the Children lost donations due to the confusion between the names.<a href="#cite_note-58">[55]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Violence">Violence</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Violence">edit</a>]</div> Two weeks after the Dade County vote, a gardener who worked for the City of San Francisco named <a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Robert_Hillsborough" title="Murder of Robert Hillsborough">Robert Hillsborough</a> was stabbed 15 times in his face and chest while his attackers chanted "<a href="/wiki/Faggot_(slang)" class="mw-redirect" title="Faggot (slang)">Faggot</a>" at him. Hillsborough's mother and San Francisco mayor <a href="/wiki/George_Moscone" title="George Moscone">George Moscone</a> blamed Bryant's rhetoric for his death and 200,000 San Francisco residents joined a memorial demonstration for him. Mrs. Hillsborough brought a $5 million civil suit against Anita Bryant claiming Hillsborough's attackers said "Here's one for Anita".<a href="#cite_note-59">[56]</a> She said, "I didn't think much about Anita Bryant's campaign at first. Now that my son's murder has happened, I think about the Bryant campaign a lot. Anyone who wants to carry on this kind of thing must be sick. My son's blood is on her hands."<a href="#cite_note-60">[57]</a> Bryant, Green, Mike Thompson and Save Our Children were dismissed from the suit in November 1977.<a href="#cite_note-61">[58]</a> Several suicides were connected to the campaign, including a Cuban gay activist in Miami named Ovidio "Herbie" Ramos, who was stunned at the vehemence against homosexuals. He and several other Cuban gay activists participated in a radio call-in show to hear people say homosexuals should be deported, forced into <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">concentration camps</a>, or executed. Ramos <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">shot himself</a> a few days later after telling a friend, "I didn't know they hated us so much".<a href="#cite_note-62">[59]</a> Another Cuban gay activist named Manolo Gomez was fired from his job and severely beaten, after which he decided to leave Miami.<a href="#cite_note-rich-45">[42]</a> Gay activists in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a> tried to discourage Bryant's performance with the New Orleans Pops orchestra by connecting local suicides to her campaign. Bryant responded to violence saying, "It made me sad and shocked me that anyone would think I had anything to do with it, but my conscience is clear. I can't be responsible for how people react to what happened in Dade County. My stand was not taken out of homophobia, but of love for them."<a href="#cite_note-playboy-13">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_retaliation">Economic retaliation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Economic retaliation">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/w/index.php?title=1977%E2%80%931980_Florida_orange_juice_boycott&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1977–1980 Florida orange juice boycott (page does not exist)">1977–1980 Florida orange juice boycott</a></div> The economic response to the vote was swift and decisive. Bryant worked only twice during 1977, and lost most of her paid appearances after that. She had recently finished an album named There's Nothing Like the Love Between a Man and a Woman; record companies chose to not distribute it. <a href="/wiki/Singer_Corporation" title="Singer Corporation">Singer Sewing Machines</a> canceled negotiations for a television variety show. She was replaced after 10 years of hosting the Orange Bowl Parade by <a href="/wiki/Rita_Moreno" title="Rita Moreno">Rita Moreno</a>, who was older and who had recently performed in a gay-themed film, <a href="/wiki/The_Ritz_(film)" title="The Ritz (film)">The Ritz</a>.<a href="#cite_note-63">[60]</a> Bryant and Green held a press conference and claimed Bryant was being <a href="/wiki/Blacklist" class="mw-redirect" title="Blacklist">blacklisted</a>, and that a national conspiracy was underway by the nation's homosexuals to deprive her of her livelihood.<a href="#cite_note-64">[61]</a> <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a> magazine called the charge "unlikely", and network executives denied gay pressure was behind their decision.<a href="#cite_note-65">[62]</a> Bryant's claim of being blacklisted brought a tide of condemnation against the perceived pressure by gay organizations. Three major newspapers supported Bryant's right to <a href="/wiki/Free_speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Free speech">free speech</a>. Years later, she admitted that some of the statements made about her cancellations were exaggerated for effect, but that the tactic worked against her, as more organizations and companies canceled her performances.<a href="#cite_note-66">[63]</a> Bryant became the butt of jokes on television shows and film, even by former colleague <a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a>.<a href="#cite_note-playboy-13">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[64]</a> Everywhere she went in the days after the vote she was met with noisy protests: <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk, Virginia</a>—where demonstrators interrupted her presentation so forcefully she began crying—<a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, and dozens of other cities. The <a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a> appeared at one of Bryant's appearances in <a href="/wiki/Huntington,_West_Virginia" title="Huntington, West Virginia">Huntington, West Virginia</a>, claiming they were there to protect her.<a href="#cite_note-68">[65]</a> She attracted the largest gay demonstration in Canadian history when she appeared at a <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a> religious performance. Although she performed and spoke only at revivals and other religious shows, audiences were often less than half the expected number, and many would leave when she came on stage.<a href="#cite_note-69">[66]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a> Bryant was invited to perform for the <a href="/wiki/State_Bar_of_Texas" title="State Bar of Texas">Texas State Bar Association</a> two weeks after the Dade County vote. With no cohesive political community, a few gay organizers invited people to protest her appearance at the Hyatt Regency. An organizer estimated for police that 500 people might participate, but guessed because no gay community had responded to a cause before; police prepared for that number.<a href="#cite_note-houston-70">[67]</a> However, thousands of people swarmed around the hotel chanting loudly enough to drown Bryant's performance; a conservative estimate of the participants' numbers was 2,000. The audience inside could not hear Bryant, and at one point attorneys working with the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union" title="American Civil Liberties Union">American Civil Liberties Union</a> walked out and joined the protesters. One of the organizers said that he had never seen so many gay people in one place before, and then made a speech thanking Bryant: "If God in his infinite wisdom had not created Anita Bryant, we would have had to invent her". He claimed the protest had the same result in Houston as the <a href="/wiki/Stonewall_riots" title="Stonewall riots">Stonewall riots</a>.<a href="#cite_note-houston-70">[67]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Florida_Citrus_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida Citrus Commission">Florida Citrus Commission</a> reiterated its commitment to Bryant by stating that it "wholeheartedly support(ed)" her right to free speech, praising her "courageous leadership on a moral issue that it is tearing up religious and other organizations which have become involved". The commission received thousands of letters both supporting Bryant's stance and condemning the commission; at one point the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service" title="United States Postal Service">United States Postal Service</a> installed <a href="/wiki/Bomb_detection" class="mw-redirect" title="Bomb detection">bomb detection</a> equipment for the mail collected for delivery to the Florida Citrus Commission.<a href="#cite_note-71">[68]</a> The publicity director for the <a href="/wiki/Florida_Department_of_Citrus" title="Florida Department of Citrus">Florida Department of Citrus</a> told a reporter from the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a>, "The whole Anita thing is a mess. No matter what we decide, we're only going to lose. I wish she would just resign."<a href="#cite_note-72">[69]</a> Although in 1979 the commission extended their $100,000 annual contract with Bryant, they did not renew it in 1980.<a href="#cite_note-73">[70]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_locations">Other locations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Other locations">edit</a>]</div> In the weeks after the Dade County vote, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Lauderdale">Fort Lauderdale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gainesville,_Florida" title="Gainesville, Florida">Gainesville</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Palm_Beach,_Florida" title="Palm Beach, Florida">Palm Beach, Florida</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a>, all rejected ordinances to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation. The <a href="/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development">U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development</a> overturned its own rules they had set earlier in the year to allow unmarried and same-sex couples federally financed housing.<a href="#cite_note-fejes155-156-74">[71]</a> <a href="/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a> reported that a county government employee who had worked in her position for 15 years had been fired.<a href="#cite_note-75">[72]</a> An openly gay aide to future U.S. senator <a href="/wiki/Paula_Hawkins_(politician)" title="Paula Hawkins (politician)">Paula Hawkins</a> had also been dismissed.<a href="#cite_note-fejes155-156-74">[71]</a> Despite the success of the Dade County campaign, activists worked quietly in liberal towns of <a href="/wiki/Aspen,_Colorado" title="Aspen, Colorado">Aspen, Colorado</a>; <a href="/wiki/Champaign-Urbana,_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Champaign-Urbana, Illinois">Champaign-Urbana, Illinois</a>; <a href="/wiki/Iowa_City,_Iowa" title="Iowa City, Iowa">Iowa City, Iowa</a>; <a href="/wiki/Wichita,_Kansas" title="Wichita, Kansas">Wichita, Kansas</a>, and the very liberal <a href="/wiki/Eugene,_Oregon" title="Eugene, Oregon">Eugene, Oregon</a>, to pass gay rights ordinances.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minneapolis–St._Paul">Minneapolis–St. Paul</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Minneapolis–St. Paul">edit</a>]</div> Only three weeks before the voter referendum in Dade County, a state gay rights law to protect homosexuals from discrimination in employment, public services, and housing in <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a> was defeated. The loss was due in large part to the efforts of the <a href="/wiki/Archdiocese_of_Saint_Paul_and_Minneapolis" class="mw-redirect" title="Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis">Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis</a>, and once more, caught gay activists completely by surprise. The Twin Cities' gay community was much more active than Miami's; both Minneapolis and St. Paul had passed gay rights laws three years before. State senator <a href="/wiki/Allan_Spear" title="Allan Spear">Allan Spear</a>—the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the U.S.—served in St. Paul. Spear called it a "victory for bigots" on the senate floor, then went into his office and cried.<a href="#cite_note-clendinen316-317-76">[73]</a> A group of guerrilla activists struck Archbishop <a href="/wiki/John_Roach_(bishop)" title="John Roach (bishop)">John Roach</a> a week after the vote by throwing a chocolate cream pie at him as he spoke to receive the National Brotherhood Award from the <a href="/wiki/National_Conference_of_Christians_and_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="National Conference of Christians and Jews">National Conference of Christians and Jews</a>.<a href="#cite_note-clendinen316-317-76">[73]</a> Following the pie attack on the archbishop, two of Allan Spear's colleagues invited Anita Bryant to come to St. Paul to overturn their three-year-old gay rights ordinance, and announced Save Our Children would be opening a branch there. Local activists did not think much of their chances; a local gay political group invited gays and lesbians in Miami to live in Minneapolis—St. Paul.<a href="#cite_note-77">[74]</a> In an act representing Bryant's diminished national public profile, in October 1977 Bryant and her husband were in <a href="/wiki/Des_Moines,_Iowa" title="Des Moines, Iowa">Des Moines, Iowa</a>, discussing an upcoming concert at a press conference when Thom Higgins, an activist affiliated with organizers in Minneapolis, walked up to her in front of cameras and mashed a <a href="/wiki/Strawberry_rhubarb_pie" class="mw-redirect" title="Strawberry rhubarb pie">strawberry rhubarb pie</a> in her face. Bryant was stunned and bowed her head as she and Green held hands and prayed for Higgins. She quickly quipped "At least it's a fruit pie." An image of her covered with the pastry appeared on the front page of <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> the next day.<a href="#cite_note-78">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-79">[76]</a> In December 1977, however, a petition drive was organized by Temple Baptist Church to put St. Paul's ordinance to a citywide vote. Volunteers endured below-freezing temperatures to collect more than 7,000 signatures; their leader, Richard Angwin, pastor of Temple Baptist reasoned, "I don't want to live in a community that gives respect to homosexuals."<a href="#cite_note-80">[77]</a> Angwin used the same strategy as the Miami campaign, tapping the resources of Bryant, Green, and their pastor in Miami. Jerry Falwell held a rally where Bryant was advertised to appear, but Green replaced her at the last minute. At the rally Angwin told the audience "Homosexuality is a murderous, horrendous, twisted act. It is a sin and a powerful, addictive lust."<a href="#cite_note-Clendinen,_p._327-81">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-fejes172-173-82">[79]</a> Gay activists in St. Paul also borrowed from Miami, taking Jack Campbell's donor list and some strategies. However, similar to Miami, many gays and lesbians in St. Paul were hesitant to come out and could not make a solid case for discrimination; most of the activists were from Minneapolis. Gay activists were also split in strategy, much like in Miami. A more mainstream group named the St. Paul Citizens for Human Rights (SPCHR) opted to treat the issue as one of civil and human rights. A more radical group of gays named the Target City Coalition—those who had arranged the pieing of the archbishop—saw the issue as one of sexual liberation and grabbed the most media attention by highlighting some of the more flamboyant parts of the gay community. The Advocate wrote that they were "the most stoned-out, off-the-wall, bona-fide crackpots yet to appear in the gay rights cause."<a href="#cite_note-83">[80]</a> The Target City Coalition invited Bob Kunst to St. Paul, where he spoke of sexual liberation and the need to reach out to gay youth. Allan Spear, supportive ministers, and other members of SPCHR went on local television to debate the civil rights issue. Reverend Angwin stumped Spear and his cohorts by showing them an advertisement placed by the Target City Coalition in a local gay paper appealing to gay teenagers, that offered them "free prostate rubs."<a href="#cite_note-fejes172-173-82">[79]</a> St. Paul's special election day was April 25, 1978. Again, more than the usual number of voters appeared for a special election, who again, overturned the city's gay rights ordinance by more than two to one.<a href="#cite_note-Clendinen,_p._327-81">[78]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eugene,_Oregon">Eugene, Oregon</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Eugene, Oregon">edit</a>]</div> The ordinance that had recently passed in Eugene was met with a different strategy of opposition. Eugene was a college town so liberal the <a href="/wiki/Grateful_Dead" title="Grateful Dead">Grateful Dead</a> spent their summers there. A housewife named Lynne Greene rejected the Biblical rhetoric offered by Bryant and instead argued that since gays already had the protection they needed under the law further legislation was unnecessary. Since homosexuality was a chosen lifestyle, they reasoned, homosexuals were not a minority and needed no protection. Acknowledging the rights of gays would lead the law to give them rights to marry, and adopt children.<a href="#cite_note-84">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-85">[82]</a> Although gay rights advocates worked differently in Eugene, registering many new voters and seeing lesbians significantly working the campaign for the first time, their opposition worked steadily by canvassing neighborhoods. Most of their volunteers were members of conservative churches, and the message was similar to recent campaigns: "Keep it straight. Our children come first," but the Eugene campaign lacked the sensational aspect as those in Miami and St. Paul.<a href="#cite_note-86">[83]</a> Once more in nearly a two to one margin, the gay rights ordinance was defeated in Eugene. A poll taken after the vote showed that liberal voters who were not gay simply declined to show up and vote, and those who opposed the ordinance were much more motivated.<a href="#cite_note-87">[84]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wichita,_Kansas">Wichita, Kansas</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Wichita, Kansas">edit</a>]</div> Anita Bryant lent her support to the effort in Wichita, which was led by a minister named Ron Adrian. They used a similar strategy, printing a full-page ad in <a href="/wiki/The_Wichita_Eagle" title="The Wichita Eagle">The Wichita Eagle</a> with newspaper clippings connecting gays to child molestation. They raised approximately $50,000 and used the network of churches, local media, and a highly organized grassroots voter registration and mobilization drive. Campaign literature focused on the aspect gay visibility, and the dangers of gays as role models for children: "There is a real danger that homosexual teachers, social workers or counselors, simply by public acknowledgment of their lifestyles, can encourage sexual deviation in children."<a href="#cite_note-88">[85]</a> In comparison, the very small and closeted gay community raised only $6,000; the National Gay Task Force was so pessimistic they offered no assistance at all. Bryant attended a rally stating the law would give homosexuals "special rights ... and next you will have thieves, prostitutes and people who have relations with St. Bernards asking for the same rights". The Wichita ordinance was defeated by a five to one margin leaving Ron Adrian ecstatic.<a href="#cite_note-89">[86]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seattle">Seattle</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Seattle">edit</a>]</div> Seattle in 1977 was a liberal city that had passed a gay rights ordinance in 1973, and whose mayor had just declared a Gay Pride Week for June. When a police officer named David Estes learned of the mayor's gesture, he decided to take action. Estes was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" class="mw-redirect" title="Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>, and regarded gay men as "mentally disturbed" according to his religious opinion.<a href="#cite_note-90">[87]</a> Estes designed a ballot measure named <a href="/wiki/Initiative_Thirteen" class="mw-redirect" title="Initiative Thirteen">Initiative Thirteen</a> that would overturn the existing gay rights ordinance, but also allowed the mere accusation of homosexuality to be the basis for dismissal from a job or eviction from a residence. Also included in the proposed law was the prospect of shifting the responsibility of enforcing Initiative Thirteen to a city department already overtaxed with investigating claims of bias against blacks and women.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Estes's organization attracted a $3,000 donation from Anita Bryant, and her pastor traveled to Seattle to give advice on Estes' campaign. However, where Estes planned to use the network of conservative churches in the city, many members were discouraged from working with him because he was a Mormon. The tone of the advertising for the campaign was more dire than in Miami; ads claimed homosexuals were responsible for half the murders and suicides in major cities and half the cases of <a href="/wiki/Syphilis" title="Syphilis">syphilis</a>. Perhaps the most significant factor of the campaign was Estes' co-chair, a police officer named Dennis Falk. Two months before election day, Falk shot and killed a suspect who turned out to be a young black boy with an intellectual disability. The black community was furious with Falk, and transferred their anger to Initiative Thirteen.<a href="#cite_note-91">[88]</a> The tone of the Seattle campaign against Initiative Thirteen was different from those in Miami and St. Paul; it focused consistently on privacy and civil rights. Instead of educating the public about different subcultures in the gay community, they printed effective posters showing an eye peeping through a keyhole and a family living in a fishbowl.<a href="#cite_note-92">[89]</a> High-profile liberal figures, labor unions, and other large organizations including the Church Council of Greater Seattle opposed Initiative Thirteen.<a href="#cite_note-93">[90]</a> David Estes did not have the enthusiasm and momentum modeled by Bryant and other communities though his campaign used many of their tactics. On election day, Initiative Thirteen was rejected by 63%.<a href="#cite_note-94">[91]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="California">California</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: California">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Briggs_Initiative" class="mw-redirect" title="Briggs Initiative">Briggs Initiative</a></div> A day after the Dade County repeal, State Assemblyman <a href="/wiki/Art_Agnos" title="Art Agnos">Art Agnos</a>, who represented portions of San Francisco with a very high population of gays and lesbians, decided not to submit a gay civil rights bill to the state legislature, reasoning that it no longer had any support.<a href="#cite_note-95">[92]</a> California state senator <a href="/wiki/John_Briggs_(politician)" title="John Briggs (politician)">John Briggs</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Fullerton,_California" title="Fullerton, California">Fullerton</a> was in the crowd with Anita Bryant the night she and Save Our Children won the Dade County vote.<a href="#cite_note-96">[93]</a> Greatly impressed by the voter turnout, Briggs had designs to win the race for governor of California for 1978. When he returned from Miami, since there was no gay rights law to overturn, he proposed a law to forbid employing openly gay public school teachers and other workers. The bill, Proposition 6—nicknamed the <a href="/wiki/Briggs_Initiative" class="mw-redirect" title="Briggs Initiative">Briggs Initiative</a>—was written so broadly that it also allowed the dismissal of any public school employee for supporting gay rights including voting against Proposition 6, regardless of their sexual orientation. He stated, "What I am after is to remove those homosexual teachers who through word, thought or deed want to be a public homosexual, to entice young impressionable children into their lifestyle".<a href="#cite_note-97">[94]</a> Briggs announced the proposition on the steps of <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_City_Hall" title="San Francisco City Hall">San Francisco City Hall</a>, after notifying several local gay organizations of his intentions. The city had experienced an influx of so many gay people in the past ten years that they counted as a quarter of its voting population.<a href="#cite_note-98">[95]</a> Gay activists, newly alarmed at the threat to their rights, confronted Vice President <a href="/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale">Walter Mondale</a> at a political rally in San Francisco two weeks after the announcement of Proposition 6. Mondale ran with Jimmy Carter in 1976 on a platform highlighting human rights as their first priority, and he was there to address the subject pertaining to <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a>. When gay activists interrupted him and demanded he address their issues, he quickly left without a response, and San Francisco Democratic organizers and liberal politicians were furious at the gay activists.<a href="#cite_note-99">[96]</a> Briggs named his organization California Defend Our Children (CDOC) to avoid legal problems with the Connecticut charity, and used the same strategies as Save Our Children: collages of newspaper headlines about child molesters, and because a proposition was on the ballot regarding the <a href="/wiki/Death_penalty" class="mw-redirect" title="Death penalty">death penalty</a> in California, CDOC campaign literature urged voters to "act now to help protect your family from vicious killers and defend your children from homosexual teachers".<a href="#cite_note-100">[97]</a> Briggs placed minister <a href="/wiki/Lou_Sheldon" class="mw-redirect" title="Lou Sheldon">Lou Sheldon</a> in charge of CDOC. A significant difference between the community components in Miami and California was that both Los Angeles and San Francisco had very active and visible gay communities. Founder of Metropolitan Community Church Reverend <a href="/wiki/Troy_Perry" title="Troy Perry">Troy Perry</a>, who began his career as a charismatic preacher in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_of_Prophecy" title="Church of God of Prophecy">Church of God of Prophecy</a> but was rejected for being gay, went on a 16-day fast to raise $100,000 and succeeded.<a href="#cite_note-101">[98]</a> Hollywood stars <a href="/wiki/Bette_Midler" title="Bette Midler">Bette Midler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a> came out in force for the cause, raising another $100,000.<a href="#cite_note-102">[99]</a> In January 1978 <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Milk" title="Harvey Milk">Harvey Milk</a> took office as a supervisor of San Francisco, and the first openly gay man to be elected to office in California. Briggs campaigned for the measure throughout the state, and held a series of public and televised debates with Milk who was very well received by the media, quick to quip and give print-friendly comments. He often made the front page in newspapers in San Francisco with the outrageous things he said. Milk spoke to 350,000 participants of 1978's <a href="/wiki/Gay_Freedom_Day_Parade" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay Freedom Day Parade">San Francisco Gay Freedom Day</a>; similar numbers were seen in Los Angeles.<a href="#cite_note-103">[100]</a> The strategies of gay activists were once again split. David Goodstein and other professional gay men paid an advertising agency to outline their message, which focused on the threat to privacy and the rights of teachers. In <a href="/wiki/The_Advocate_(magazine)" title="The Advocate (magazine)">The Advocate</a>, Goodstein urged gays not to live up to stereotypes and let the professionals try to win.<a href="#cite_note-104">[101]</a> However, grassroots efforts by longtime activists such as <a href="/wiki/Morris_Kight" title="Morris Kight">Morris Kight</a>, who went on a walk across the state to promote voting down the Briggs Initiative, were also effective. Women were highly visible in the campaign, raising about the same amount of money as men. However, when California law was revealed to state that anyone who gave more than $50 to the campaign would have to release his or her name, most of the donations came in at $49, including one by <a href="/wiki/Rock_Hudson" title="Rock Hudson">Rock Hudson</a>.<a href="#cite_note-105">[102]</a> Due to the broad nature of the law, as it would have allowed the firing of public school employees for the way they voted or spoke their opinions in favor of gay rights, conservative Republican politicians spoke out against it. Primarily, former governor <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> voiced his opinion, saying "Prop. 6 is not needed to protect our children. We have that legal protection now. It could be very costly to implement and has the potential for causing undue harm to people."<a href="#cite_note-106">[103]</a> Reagan's statement turned public opinion against the proposition almost overnight. Gay activists were not optimistic in light of the record of voter turnout against them in the previous year, but they were overwhelmed to learn that on election day more than a million voters turned out to strike down the proposition.<a href="#cite_note-107">[104]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Effects_on_Bryant">Effects on Bryant</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Effects on Bryant">edit</a>]</div> Bryant and Bob Green were divorced in May 1979, in a dispute made public through newspapers. Bryant moved to <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> and gave a candid interview to <a href="/wiki/Ladies_Home_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Ladies Home Journal">Ladies Home Journal</a> in 1980 where she told the details of her marriage during the campaign. She claimed she had been "married for the wrong reasons" and that she and Green had fought regularly, often considering divorce.<a href="#cite_note-jahr-108">[105]</a> Green became her manager and she claimed exhaustion due to being booked for every event available, making $700,000 in 1976 (equivalent to $3,748,070 in 2023 dollars). She had checked herself into a Christian psychiatric facility in 1973, and regularly saw psychiatrists and marriage counselors. Her anxiety manifested itself in chest pains, tremors, difficulty swallowing food, and a bout with 24-hour paralysis during a trip to Israel with the Falwell family.<a href="#cite_note-jahr-108">[105]</a> Bryant revealed she had received severe criticism from Christians following her divorce. One Canadian pastor expressed doubt to her that she had "ever met the Lord", to her humiliation.<a href="#cite_note-jahr-108">[105]</a> As a result of the backlash she received from Christians, Bryant had softened her stances on gay rights: "The church needs to be more loving, unconditionally, and willing to see these people as human beings, to minister to them and try to understand. If I had it to do over, I'd do it again, but not in the same way," and feminism: "The church needs to wake up and find some way to cope with divorce and women's problems that are based on Biblical principles. I believe in the long run God will vindicate me. I've about given up on the fundamentalists, who have become so legalistic and letter-bound to the Bible."<a href="#cite_note-jahr-108">[105]</a> Bryant's career did not recover. She attempted to stage comebacks in <a href="/wiki/Eureka_Springs,_Arkansas" title="Eureka Springs, Arkansas">Eureka Springs, Arkansas</a>, in 1992, <a href="/wiki/Branson,_Missouri" title="Branson, Missouri">Branson, Missouri</a>, in 1994 ("People who come to my performances are hungry for the truth. They thank me for reminding them of the importance of God and country."<a href="#cite_note-109">[106]</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Pigeon_Forge,_Tennessee" title="Pigeon Forge, Tennessee">Pigeon Forge, Tennessee</a>, in 1997. However, at each venue her audiences dwindled and investors were non-existent.<a href="#cite_note-tobin-110">[107]</a> By 2002, Bryant and her second husband Charlie Dry had claimed <a href="/wiki/Bankruptcy" title="Bankruptcy">bankruptcy</a> in three states. As of 2006,<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit">[update]</a> Bryant was living in <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City" title="Oklahoma City">Oklahoma City</a>.<a href="#cite_note-111">[108]</a> In 2007, Bob Green counted the campaign and its aftermath as factors in strengthening his faith. The breakdown of the marriage he attributed on the pressures put on Bryant, and blamed gays and lesbians for his emotional devastation after the divorce: "Their goal was to put (Bryant) out of business and destroy her career. And that's what they did. It's unfair."<a href="#cite_note-rothausgreen-112">[109]</a> However, Green said he would not have done it again if he had to: "It just wasn't worth it ... The trauma, the battling we all got caught up in. I don't want to ever go back to that."<a href="#cite_note-rothausgreen-112">[109]</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[note 4]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Significance">Significance</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Significance">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Moral_Majority">Moral Majority</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Moral Majority">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Save_Our_Children_Fundraising_card.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Save_Our_Children_Fundraising_card.jpg/250px-Save_Our_Children_Fundraising_card.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Save_Our_Children_Fundraising_card.jpg/375px-Save_Our_Children_Fundraising_card.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Save_Our_Children_Fundraising_card.jpg/500px-Save_Our_Children_Fundraising_card.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="427" /></a><figcaption>Fundraising card used by Bryant and Save Our Children; their strategies offered a basis for the <a href="/wiki/Moral_Majority" title="Moral Majority">Moral Majority</a>, who claimed to be saving America from immorality and Communism in the 1980s.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Moral_Majority" title="Moral Majority">Moral Majority</a></div> The Save Our Children campaign was an intensely focused effort by conservative forces, many of whom received inspiration from previous controversies in the 1970s. Not since the <a href="/wiki/Scopes_Trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Scopes Trial">Scopes Trial</a> about the legality of teaching <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> in public schools in 1925 had religious organizations made earnest attempts to influence politics on such a wide scale.<a href="#cite_note-114">[110]</a> Fred Fejes credits the Save Our Children campaign as a significant factor in the rise of conservative Christian activism, claiming "This was the beginning of the culture wars".<a href="#cite_note-tanasychuk-11">[10]</a> Ruth Shack points to the connection between the rise of the <a href="/wiki/New_Right" title="New Right">New Right</a> and the Save Our Children campaign: "Back in 1977, there was no organized religious right per se. Anita Bryant was a pioneer."<a href="#cite_note-rothaus-115">[111]</a> In the late 1970s the Reverend <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Falwell" title="Jerry Falwell">Jerry Falwell</a> moved from presiding over the <a href="/wiki/Megachurch" title="Megachurch">megachurch</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Road_Baptist_Church" title="Thomas Road Baptist Church">Thomas Road Baptist Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lynchburg,_Virginia" title="Lynchburg, Virginia">Lynchburg, Virginia</a>, and hosting the Old Time Gospel Hour, to being involved in politics. Falwell took credit for defeating the Dade County gay rights ordinance and the failure of the ERA in Florida. He developed a campaign called Clean Up America in 1977 that was a fundraising vehicle for his television show. Falwell sent letters asking for donations, which included questionnaires asking "Do you approve of known practicing homosexuals teaching in public schools?" that he promised would be sent to politicians; he distributed information about how to put together political groups to influence elections and lawmakers.<a href="#cite_note-fitzgerald-116">[112]</a> In 1979 Falwell spearheaded a coalition of religious groups that included Catholics, fundamentalist Protestants, Mormons, and Orthodox Jews that he called the <a href="/wiki/Moral_Majority" title="Moral Majority">Moral Majority</a>, which developed a branch dedicated to political action.<a href="#cite_note-117">[113]</a> Falwell declared in 1965 that he had no business in politics,<a href="#cite_note-118">[114]</a> but justified his involvement and the inevitable mix of religion and government with evidence that the social problems of abortion, <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornography</a>, sexual immorality, and drugs were bringing the United States to a dangerous precipice where <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a> would prevail over Christianity.<a href="#cite_note-fitzgerald-116">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-119">[115]</a> Falwell claimed that the <a href="/wiki/Grassroots" title="Grassroots">grassroots</a> efforts of the Moral Majority—registering millions of voters, informing the public, and using the media—had been a significant factor in the election of President <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-120">[116]</a> By 1982 they had a budget of $1 million and millions of volunteers.<a href="#cite_note-121">[117]</a> Around the same time, gay men were being stricken with <a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">AIDS</a>, desperate for money for research and services. Spokesmen for the Moral Majority connected it to God's will, asserting the general public needed protection from "the gay plague", and warned, "If homosexuals are not stopped they will infect the entire nation and America will be destroyed."<a href="#cite_note-122">[118]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gay_activism">Gay activism</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Gay activism">edit</a>]</div> Just as the Save Our Children campaign was a motivational force for conservative Christians, it was also one for gay and lesbian politics. Fejes writes, "While the Stonewall riots of 1969 may have marked the beginning of the modern lesbian and gay movement, the campaigns of 1977 and 1978 marked the emergence of a national politically self-conscious lesbian and gay community".<a href="#cite_note-123">[119]</a> The birth of a political life for gays and lesbians gave opportunities for national networking as Anita Bryant and those who followed her acted as a virtual lightning rod, attracting a collective anger. Thirty years after the campaign, the <a href="/wiki/Stonewall_Library_%26_Archives" class="mw-redirect" title="Stonewall Library & Archives">Stonewall Library & Archives</a> sponsored an exhibition of the events surrounding the Save Our Children campaign and displayed it at the <a href="/wiki/Broward_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Broward County">Broward County</a> Public Library. According to the curator of the exhibit, Bryant is considered "the best thing to happen to the gay rights movement. She and her cohorts were so over the top that it just completely galvanized the gay rights movement".<a href="#cite_note-tanasychuk-11">[10]</a> San Francisco author <a href="/wiki/Armistead_Maupin" title="Armistead Maupin">Armistead Maupin</a> was writing his installments of individual stories in a column for the San Francisco Chronicle titled <a href="/wiki/Tales_of_the_City" title="Tales of the City">Tales of the City</a> in 1977. He remembered, "I know what the battle did for me: It forced me to confront my own residual self-loathing and stare it down once and for all by coming out."<a href="#cite_note-maupin-124">[120]</a> Maupin used the next installment of Tales to have one of his gay characters come out to his parents who, by remarkable coincidence, Maupin had previously established as Florida citrus growers.<a href="#cite_note-maupin-124">[120]</a> Political activism in American gay communities was transformed by the arrival of AIDS in the early 1980s. When gay men tried in several desperate measures to follow established political channels to bring attention to a disease that afflicted the most cast out members of society only to meet silence from the government, some used <a href="/wiki/Direct_action" title="Direct action">direct action</a> tactics. <a href="/wiki/AIDS_Coalition_to_Unleash_Power" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power">AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power</a> (ACT UP), formed by <a href="/wiki/Larry_Kramer" title="Larry Kramer">Larry Kramer</a> and others in 1987, was a response not only to government forces that downplayed or ignored the seriousness of AIDS in the United States, but also to a timid gay community who were not militant enough. Their first act was to march on <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall Street</a> in New York City to protest the high price of <a href="/wiki/Zidovudine" title="Zidovudine">AZT</a> and the lack of other drugs to address HIV. They blocked morning rush hour traffic, a civil disobedience action in which several protesters were arrested, and the fledgling organization received national news coverage for their demonstration. ACT UP inspired the establishment of direct action groups <a href="/wiki/Queer_Nation" title="Queer Nation">Queer Nation</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Pink_Panthers" title="The Pink Panthers">the Pink Panthers</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lesbian_Avengers" title="Lesbian Avengers">Lesbian Avengers</a>, that concentrated on gay and lesbian rights and protection.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] LGBT activists in Florida went on to win re-enactment of the non-discrimination ordinance in Miami-Dade County, the enactment of such ordinances elsewhere throughout the state, <a href="/wiki/In_re_Gill" title="In re Gill">the legalization of gay adoption</a> (2010), and <a href="/wiki/Brenner_v._Scott" title="Brenner v. Scott">marriage equality</a> (2015). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/32px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/48px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/64px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /><a href="/wiki/Portal:United_States" title="Portal:United States">United States portal</a></li><li class="portalbox-entry"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Nuvola_LGBT_flag.svg/28px-Nuvola_LGBT_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Nuvola_LGBT_flag.svg/42px-Nuvola_LGBT_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Nuvola_LGBT_flag.svg/56px-Nuvola_LGBT_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /><a href="/wiki/Portal:LGBTQ" title="Portal:LGBTQ">LGBTQ portal</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Briggs_Initiative" class="mw-redirect" title="Briggs Initiative">Briggs Initiative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_interests_(rhetoric)" class="mw-redirect" title="Children's interests (rhetoric)">Children's interests (rhetoric)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culture_war" title="Culture war">Culture war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Florida">LGBT rights in Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Oregon_Ballot_Measure_9" title="1992 Oregon Ballot Measure 9">Oregon Ballot Measure 9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory" title="Pyrrhic victory">Pyrrhic victory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SAVE_Dade" title="SAVE Dade">SAVE</a> (SAVE Dade)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_House_Bill_2661" title="Washington House Bill 2661">Washington House Bill 2661</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> The gay rights ordinance re-enacted by Dade County commissioners in 1998; it survived a repeal attempt by the Christian Coalition in 2003. (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100724231455/http://www.stonewall-library.org/anita/panel20.html">"Days Without Sunshine: Anita Bryant's Anti-Gay Crusade"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Stonewall_Library_and_Archives" class="mw-redirect" title="Stonewall Library and Archives">Stonewall Library and Archives</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stonewall-library.org/anita/panel20.html">the original</a> on 2010-07-24. Retrieved October 23, 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Days+Without+Sunshine%3A+Anita+Bryant%27s+Anti-Gay+Crusade&rft.pub=Stonewall+Library+and+Archives&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stonewall-library.org%2Fanita%2Fpanel20.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASave+Our+Children" class="Z3988">) </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a> Bryant gave a candid interview to Playboy magazine, printed in May 1978 where she admitted that she knew of homosexuals in show business, but was unaware of the "nitty gritty" of their sexual behavior until her husband described them to her. She professed being most astonished that they <a href="/wiki/Fellatio" title="Fellatio">ate each other's sperm</a>, and equated the act with the immorality of destroying the Seed of Life. Bryant also claimed never to have heard of <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey" title="Alfred Kinsey">Alfred Kinsey</a>'s study that estimated one out of five males had had some sexual contact with another male; or any information about <a href="/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals" title="Homosexual behavior in animals">homosexual behavior in animals</a>. The interviewer, Ken Kelley, wrote a companion piece to the interview, stating that she was impossible to "pigeonhole" due to her deliberate enigmatic persona: "She is a confection of contradictions: pristine nun and gamy tease. Old pro who's paid her dues and wide-eyed waif who's still seeking the jackpot. Guilt-wracked sinner who's terrified of hell and perfervid white knight who's determined to lead mankind on a forced march into paradise. Independent spirit, cowering wife. Chaplain one minute, warden the next. She is a demonstrably intelligent woman who stays steadfastly ignorant." For months Bryant called Kelley just to talk, even though she knew she would not be portrayed favorably in the magazine. Kelley and a few others concluded that Bryant was simply very lonely. (Young, p. 39.) </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a> Bryant later accused Coy of working with Green to take over her ministries and control her completely, saying they formed a "devil's triangle" to form a "satanically self-righteous conspiracy" to deprive her of all control, including that of her own conscience. Bryant tried to fire him, to no avail. (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJahr1980" class="citation news cs1">Jahr, Cliff (December 1980). "Anita Bryant's Startling Reversal". <a href="/wiki/Ladies%27_Home_Journal" title="Ladies' Home Journal">Ladies' Home Journal</a>. pp. 62–68.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Ladies%27+Home+Journal&rft.atitle=Anita+Bryant%27s+Startling+Reversal&rft.pages=62-68&rft.date=1980-12&rft.aulast=Jahr&rft.aufirst=Cliff&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASave+Our+Children" class="Z3988">) </li> <li id="cite_note-113"><a href="#cite_ref-113">^</a> Green died January 26, 2012 at 80 years old. (Elinor J. Brecher & Steve Rothaus, [February 22, 2012]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/02/onetime-disc-jockey-bob-green-anita-bryants-husband-during-1977-gay-rights-battle-dies-at-80.html#storylink=misearch">One-time disc jockey Bob Green, Anita Bryant's husband during 1977 gay-rights battle, dies at 80</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miami_Herald" title="Miami Herald">Miami Herald</a>. Retrieved on April 13, 2012.) </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Save_Our_Children&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Citations">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-3"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB5H--b3Xho">Anita Bryant - Save Our Children Campaign</a>, 10 July 2014, retrieved 2023-05-30</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Anita+Bryant+-+Save+Our+Children+Campaign&rft.date=2014-07-10&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIB5H--b3Xho&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASave+Our+Children" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-nytimes-1977-2">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nytimes-1977_2-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytimes-1977_2-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytimes-1977_2-2">c</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAyres1977" class="citation news cs1">Ayres, B. 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Olesen">One, Inc. v. Olesen</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_12968" title="Executive Order 12968">Executive Order 12968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romer_v._Evans" title="Romer v. Evans">Romer v. Evans</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_13087" title="Executive Order 13087">Executive Order 13087</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas" title="Lawrence v. Texas">Lawrence v. Texas</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Shepard_and_James_Byrd_Jr._Hate_Crimes_Prevention_Act" title="Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act">Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Ask,_Don%27t_Tell_Repeal_Act_of_2010" title="Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010">Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Violence_Against_Women_Act" title="Violence Against Women Act">Violence Against Women Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Windsor" title="United States v. Windsor">United States v. Windsor</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_13672" title="Executive Order 13672">Executive Order 13672</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges" title="Obergefell v. Hodges">Obergefell v. Hodges</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavan_v._Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Pavan v. Smith">Pavan v. Smith</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colorado_Civil_Rights_Commission" title="Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission">Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County" title="Bostock v. Clayton County">Bostock</a>/<a href="/wiki/R.G._%26_G.R._Harris_Funeral_Homes_Inc._v._Equal_Employment_Opportunity_Commission" title="R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission">Harris Funeral Homes</a>/<a href="/wiki/Altitude_Express,_Inc._v._Zarda" title="Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda">Altitude Express</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G.G._v._Gloucester_County_School_Board" title="G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board">G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_13988" title="Executive Order 13988">Executive Order 13988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Respect_for_Marriage_Act" title="Respect for Marriage Act">Respect for Marriage Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/303_Creative_LLC_v._Elenis" title="303 Creative LLC v. Elenis">303 Creative LLC v. Elenis</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Repealed or overturned federal laws</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1917" title="Immigration Act of 1917">Immigration Act of 1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1952" title="Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952">Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_10450" title="Executive Order 10450">Executive Order 10450</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965" title="Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965">Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowers_v._Hardwick" title="Bowers v. Hardwick">Bowers v. Hardwick</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don%27t_ask,_don%27t_tell" title="Don't ask, don't tell">DoD Directive 1304.26</a> ("Don't ask, don't tell")</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act" title="Defense of Marriage Act">Defense of Marriage Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Memorandum_on_Military_Service_by_Transgender_Individuals_(2017)" title="Presidential Memorandum on Military Service by Transgender Individuals (2017)">Presidential Memorandum of August 25, 2017</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">States</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Alabama" title="LGBTQ rights in Alabama">Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Alaska" title="LGBTQ rights in Alaska">Alaska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Arizona" title="LGBTQ rights in Arizona">Arizona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Arkansas" title="LGBTQ rights in Arkansas">Arkansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_California" title="LGBTQ rights in California">California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Colorado" title="LGBTQ rights in Colorado">Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Connecticut" title="LGBTQ rights in Connecticut">Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Delaware" title="LGBTQ rights in Delaware">Delaware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Florida" title="LGBTQ rights in Florida">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="LGBTQ rights in Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Hawaii" title="LGBTQ rights in Hawaii">Hawaii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Idaho" title="LGBTQ rights in Idaho">Idaho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Illinois" title="LGBTQ rights in Illinois">Illinois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Indiana" title="LGBTQ rights in Indiana">Indiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Iowa" title="LGBTQ rights in Iowa">Iowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Kansas" title="LGBTQ rights in Kansas">Kansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Kentucky" title="LGBTQ rights in Kentucky">Kentucky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Louisiana" title="LGBTQ rights in Louisiana">Louisiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Maine" title="LGBTQ rights in Maine">Maine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Maryland" title="LGBTQ rights in Maryland">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Massachusetts" title="LGBTQ rights in Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Michigan" title="LGBTQ rights in Michigan">Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Minnesota" title="LGBTQ rights in Minnesota">Minnesota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Mississippi" title="LGBTQ rights in Mississippi">Mississippi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Missouri" title="LGBTQ rights in Missouri">Missouri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Montana" title="LGBTQ rights in Montana">Montana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Nebraska" title="LGBTQ rights in Nebraska">Nebraska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Nevada" title="LGBTQ rights in Nevada">Nevada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_New_Hampshire" title="LGBTQ rights in New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_New_Jersey" title="LGBTQ rights in New Jersey">New Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_New_Mexico" title="LGBTQ rights in New Mexico">New Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in New York">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_North_Carolina" title="LGBTQ rights in North Carolina">North Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_North_Dakota" title="LGBTQ rights in North Dakota">North Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Ohio" title="LGBTQ rights in Ohio">Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Oklahoma" title="LGBTQ rights in Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Oregon" title="LGBTQ rights in Oregon">Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Pennsylvania" title="LGBTQ rights in Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Rhode_Island" title="LGBTQ rights in Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_South_Carolina" title="LGBTQ rights in South Carolina">South Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_South_Dakota" title="LGBTQ rights in South Dakota">South Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Tennessee" title="LGBTQ rights in Tennessee">Tennessee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Texas" title="LGBTQ rights in Texas">Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Utah" title="LGBTQ rights in Utah">Utah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Vermont" title="LGBTQ rights in Vermont">Vermont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Virginia" title="LGBTQ rights in Virginia">Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Washington_(state)" title="LGBTQ rights in Washington (state)">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_West_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in West Virginia">West Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Wyoming" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Wyoming">Wyoming</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Federal_district" title="Federal district">Federal district</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in the District of Columbia">District of Columbia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_tribal_nations_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States">Tribal nations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Navajo_Nation" title="LGBT rights in the Navajo Nation">Navajo Nation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_tribal_nations_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States">Indian Country</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_territories_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Unincorporated territories of the United States">Unincorporated territories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_American_Samoa" title="LGBT rights in American Samoa">American Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Guam" title="LGBT rights in Guam">Guam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in the Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Puerto_Rico" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:right; vertical-align:top;">By type</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Same-sex_adoption_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex adoption in the United States">Adoption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Ages of consent in the United States">Age of consent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._jurisdictions_banning_conversion_therapy" title="List of U.S. jurisdictions banning conversion therapy">Conversion therapy bans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_States" title="Hate crime laws in the United States">Hate crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_discrimination_in_the_United_States" title="Housing discrimination in the United States">Housing discrimination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intersex_rights_in_the_United_States" title="Intersex rights in the United States">Intersex rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_orientation_and_gender_identity_in_the_United_States_military" title="Sexual orientation and gender identity in the United States military">Military</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Transgender_personnel_in_the_United_States_military" title="Transgender personnel in the United States military">Transgender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intersex_people_in_the_United_States_military" title="Intersex people in the United States military">Intersex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_orientation_in_the_United_States_military" title="Sexual orientation in the United States military">Sexual orientation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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