Anita Bryant, Whose Anti-Gay Politics Undid a Singing Career, Is Dead at 84
Anita Bryant, the singer and former beauty queen who had a flourishing music career in the 1960s and ’70, but whose opposition to gay rights — she called homosexuality “an abomination” — virtually destroyed her career, died on Dec. 16 at her home in Edmond, Okla. She was 84. The …