Trojan Rainbow (Part Two)
2024-06-04 01:06:32
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Previously on Red Pilled America. Homosexuality is in fact a mental illness.
There was a time when the LGBTQ community were not a part of mainstream America. Americans consider.
homosexuality more harmful to society than adultery, abortion, or prostitution. The APA.
listed homosexuality as a mental disorder. There was an effort underway to normalize the gay.
lifestyle. The body of knowledge which claims sickness for homosexuality has to be challenged.
Society had to be enlightened. The gay activists devised a genius plan. I'm a homosexual. I'm a psychiatrist. Gay activists set their sights on a new target and they'd go after the one group that was previously off-limits, the children.
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We're at the finale of our series of episodes entitled Trojan Rainbow. If you haven't heard part one, stop and go back and listen from the beginning. We're looking for the answer to the question, how did Pride Month become ubiquitous? By telling the story of the rise of the pride movement and how a seminal battle led to its going mainstream.
So to pick up where we left off, by the end of 1973, the alphabet movement was on a roll. Gay activists successfully bullied the American Psychiatric Association into removing homosexuality from its list of mental disorders, without a single long-term scientific study being performed to justify the removal. Gay activists continued on offense, lobbying locally to end anti-sodomy laws in a few states. But with all the gay pride upheaval happening in major cities like New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles, nothing would catapult the effort to normalize homosexuality. like a small group of gay activists in Miami.
They'd make a direct attack against the last standing resistance to their movement, the faith-based community, by targeting the one group that was previously off-limits, the children. By the summer of 1976, the gay population of Florida's Miami-Dade County had fully blossomed. The wealthy white gay men of the area had little practical need for non-discrimination protections. They had their entirely own ecosystem, their own bars, their own society clubs, their own bathhouses, their own magazines, movie theaters, and even beaches. They had an entirely parallel economy that they could flourish within.
And besides, most Miamians were either unaware of or simply ignored this gay circuit. As one writer at the time put it in a local entertainment magazine, quote, By day, unnoticed, gay doctors, lawyers, and school teachers go about their jobs, while more flamboyant artists and decorators go quite visibly about their rounds. Slim-tanned young men in brief bathing suits cruise favorite beaches. Other young men languidly sun themselves in public parks. End quote.
In other words, the Miami gay community had it good. There was no overbearing oppression that would ignite a revolt, leading some within their community to believe that gay activism igniting in Miami would happen. when hell froze over. Well, a few local gay movers and wanted to try and make it snow in Hades. They looked to nudge homosexuality into the mainstream by launching a direct attack on the community's Christian population.
The instigator of this effort was a Miami entrepreneur named Jack Campbell. Jack owned a national chain of more than 40 outfits he branded as health clubs. In actuality, they were gay bathhouses, or private clubs where homosexual men met for sex. In July 1976, Jack invited a group of prominent Miami gays and lesbians to his sprawling home in the Coconut Grove area of Miami, a wealthy gay beach enclave. The gathered group wanted to push for legislation that would ultimately force local parochial private schools to hire openly homosexual teachers if they were otherwise qualified for the job.
And to do it, these gay activists decided to take a tried and true approach. The black and women's liberation movements had success by positioning their causes as civil rights issues. These Miami activists decided to take the same angle. They formed a political lobbying organization called the Dade County Coalition for the Human Rights of Gays, and they went on the hunt for local politicians that would be friendly to their cause.
The group distributed 200 questionnaires to Miami politicos to find people to support. They eventually backed 49 candidates.
And in the November 1976 election, over 90% of the candidates they backed won their elections. A gay political action model was born.
Shortly after the election, the group put their plan into motion. They turned to one of their winners, a woman named Ruth Schack, and asked her to sponsor what they positioned as a human rights ordinance. At the time, similar ordinances had quietly passed in a small number of cities throughout the United States. In California, Michigan, New York, Washington, D.C., Minnesota, and Oregon, Jack Campbell's Human Rights for Gays group wanted to do their own version. A member of Jack's activist group, a guy named Bob Kunst, helped draft the ordinance.
The group then took a draft of the law to a local candidate. they'd gotten elected, Ruth Schack, and immediately after her victory, she announced her sponsorship of the Miami ordinance.
A bomb dropped on Dade County in the form of an ordinance offered by Metro Commissioner Ruth Schack that would prohibit discrimination in the areas of housing, public accommodations, and employment against persons based on their affectional or sexual preference. Need was demonstrated to the community relations board. But not all of Ruth Schack's campaign.
backers supported the ordinance, including a woman named Anita Bryant.
At the time, Anita Bryant had been a beloved national symbol of traditional American values. Born in Barnesdale, Oklahoma, in March 1940, from a young age, Anita was steeped in the hymns of her parents' Christian faith. As she came of age, her chestnut-colored hair, large, expressive brown eyes, and warm, inviting smile were the epitome of the all-American beauty portrayed on the big screen. But growing up in the Midwest, Anita was far from the amplifying lens of Hollywood. So, her path to stardom took a different route.
She showed an early flair for performing, singing in her church and school choirs, honing a talent that would ultimately take her far beyond the dusty plains of Oklahoma.
In 1958, Anita's beauty led her to winning the Miss Oklahoma pageant. The following year, she won second runner-up in the Miss America pageant, and in the process, she received nationwide exposure for her voice.
Capitalizing on her moment, Anita pursued a career in music. In 1960, her single, Paper Roses, reached the number five spot on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Anita was on her way.
That same year, her personal life also experienced an upgrade. In June 1960, she married Bob Green, a Miami disc jockey and a fellow. Christian. Bryant's wholesome image and clear emotive voice led to a series of successful albums in the early 1960s. As she nurtured her music career, she also embarked on the journey of motherhood.
Anita and Bob welcomed their first child, a daughter, in 1962.
. As the couple started their family, Anita's vocal talent and wholesome Christian persona began to resonate with an even larger audience, which opened doors to commercial opportunities. Anita would sing for Coca-Cola.
Then, a housewife favorite would tap her voice.
As her fame grew, Bob Hope invited Anita to be part of his Christmas special, singing for American troops deployed in Vietnam.
Anita was becoming known as the wholesome wife and mother that sung patriotic songs. Her reputation as America's ideal woman was cemented when she became the spokeswoman for Florida's Citrus Commission in 1969, appearing in advertisements that familiarized her face and voice with households all across America.
By the close of the 1960s, she added three more children to their conservative Christian family. Perhaps surprising to Americans today, Anita Bryant was a registered Democrat and had become such a beloved figure that, at the request of President Lyndon B. Johnson himself, she was asked to sing at his funeral in 1973..
By the time 1976 rolled along, Anita Bryant was a revered national symbol of the American Christian family. So, when gay activists began pushing for a law that would force parochial schools in her hometown to hire homosexual teachers, Anita was presented with a dilemma. Up until that point, she did little in the vein of controversial political activism. She'd spent most of her career appealing to a wide general audience. So, when people within her church group asked her to speak out against the proposed gay ordinance, she was hesitant.
Anita had financial obligations. Her family lived in a six-bedroom mansion in upscale Miami Beach. She was no doubt aware that America was fighting a radical cultural revolution. A revolution the entertainment industry embraced.
Any involvement in politics could impact her work on TV, and it wasn't just the little screen. Anita made a big portion of her income from live events, and it just so happened that her booking agent, Richard Schack, was married to the woman who sponsored the gay ordinance, Ruth Schack. Anita had even donated to Ruth's election campaign. So, she had a lot to lose by speaking out. But as much as she resisted getting involved in politics, this proposed ordinance was an issue that hit too close to home.
Anita's children were in Christian private schools, the types of institutions being directly targeted by the ordinance. Anita believed that by allowing homosexuals to be role models for kids, it would rip apart the moral fabric of America for generations to come. So, she decided to first take a baby step against the proposed law. Shortly after the ordinance was announced, Anita called her booking agent's wife, Ruth Schack, and told her she was embarrassed and sorely disappointed that someone she'd supported was proposing an ordinance that would directly attack her religious liberty. Anita asked Ruth to drop her support of the ordinance.
Ruth declined and snapped back by comparing the plight of gays to that of Jews during the Holocaust.
Anita responded by reading Leviticus 2013 from the Old Testament, the passage that condemned homosexuality, and told Ruth that if she decided to move forward with the ordinance, she'd have to oppose Ruth's effort. But Ruth Schack ignored Anita's demand and pushed the ordinance forward anyway.
I think it's important that the people of Dade County realize that it is not illegal to be a homosexual.
On December 7, 1976, Ruth voted with four other colleagues on the amendment. It passed with little opposition. That's when Anita Bryant stepped it up a notch. With her career, social status, and fame on the line, Anita penned an open letter to the Metro Commission voting on the ordinance, stating, quote, If this ordinance amendment is allowed to become law, you will in fact be infringing upon my rights, or rather discriminating against me as a citizen and as a mother, to teach my children and set examples and to point to others as examples of God's moral code, as stated in the holy scriptures. End quote.
But the open letter fell on deaf ears.
On January 18, 1977, Miami's Metro Commission held a final public hearing, after which they would vote on whether to make the new ordinance law.
Debate over the controversial ordinance prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations against persons based on their sexual preferences drew the largest crowd of citizens ever seen at a Metro Commission public hearing. On one side, several church organizations spoke in opposition to the proposed ordinance, while an equal number of proponents voiced their opinions. The issue attracted two national notables, Chicago baseball coach Alvin Dark and singer Anita Bryant. Both oppose the gay anti-bias law. Singing orange juice advocate Anita Bryant says, quote, God has put a burden on her heart to crusade against the ordinance.
I believe I have that right, that I can and do say no to a very serious moral issue that would violate my rights and the rights of all the decent and morally upstanding citizens, regardless of their race or religion. After two and a half hours of heated arguments sprinkled with amens and bruise, the commission voted five to three in favor of the ordinance. Opponents shouted recall threats at the commissioners, while proponents smiled in victory.
Miami became the center of the gay normalization movement, the same city that some believed would spark a homosexual revolution. when hell froze over. The doubters were actually only off by 24 hours. The following day, for the first and only time in recorded history, it snowed in Miami.
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So after a heated debate in January 1977, the Miami Metro Commission voted to approve a controversial ordinance that allowed openly homosexual people to teach at parochial elementary schools. The reaction from the faith-based community was loud and decisive.
One provision of the law that disturbs those who oppose it is the right for anyone, regardless of sexual preference, to teach in private or parochial schools if they are otherwise qualified. This is one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation that has ever been produced in the state of Florida. I am absolutely distressed that men and women who have been elected officials would claim to represent the people and promote this kind of immorality. There's no way that a homosexual would ever teach, a known homosexual would ever teach at Northwest Christian Academy, just like there's no way that a prostitute would ever teach, a known prostitute would ever teach, or a known drunk would ever teach, because there are scriptural prohibitions, divine prohibitions against these types of sins. We're not running down the homosexual.
We're simply saying that there are God's laws against homosexuality that we must obey as his people. The ordinance becomes law in 10 days, but a religious group headed by Anita Bryant said it will indefinitely begin a petition drive to repeal the law.
At the urging of her pastor, Anita launched a group called Save Our Children to repeal the ordinance.
The overwhelming majority of the constituents of Dade County are against this moral issue, and, in particular, that it concerns our children, and the organization which we formed. after the courtroom hearing, the public hearing, says it all, Save Our Children. We do not want our children subjected to this kind of a role model. The fight against the county law on gay rights moved to some 20 Dade County churches. today.
It could be called Anita's army. About 50% of the volunteers working in the Save Our Children headquarters attend Anita Bryant's church. The law protecting the rights of gay teachers applies only to private schools like this one. Miss Bryant says. if the law is not repealed, public schools would eventually have to hire homosexual teachers too.
The ordinance not only violated the holy scriptures of the faith-based community, it also violated their First Amendment right to freely practice their religion without government interference. So religious leaders spoke out.
The Catholic Church, through Archbishop Coleman Carroll, has taken a firm stand opposing the ordinance. That view is upheld by the Orthodox Jewish congregations, as stated here by Rabbi Phineas Weberman, who is against the ordinance. We also, as part of our religious teachings and moral teachings, consider homosexuality or any other kind of sexual perversion an abomination. And this puts us in a very difficult predicament. if we would be forced to hire somebody who specifically states that he engages in perversion, sexual perversion, to have these people teach our children.
We'd be in a contradictory position.
But gay activists were smart. They enlisted a few fringe religious leaders that disregarded their holy scriptures so that they could falsely portray that there was a debate within the faith-based community.
Rabbi Joseph Nerott of Temple Israel of Greater Miami supports the gay rights issue. Discrimination against anyone, for whatever reason, is unconstitutional. Reverend Albert Schmidt of Grace Lutheran Church, Miami Springs, is in favor of the gay rights ordinance. The church should receive the homosexual into its fellowship with the same understanding and forgiveness that it receives every human being, because every human being is a sinner.
But just over a few weeks, Anita Bryant's Save Our Children campaign gained steam, easily surpassing the 10,000 signature requirement for a referendum.
A large suitcase bulging with petitions were turned over to the clerk's office for certification. Save Our Children collected 62,000 petition signatures, forcing the ordinance to be put before the public for a vote, giving the people a chance to repeal or retain it. Carl Gable City Commissioner Robert Brake said it took only 25 days to obtain the required signatures of voters in the county.
The issue would be put to a public vote on June 7, 1977.
During a news conference, Ms. Bryant said the big war against Dade County politicians is well underway. Unfortunately, the battle that we won today is only that, a battle. The war goes on to save our children, because the seed of sexual sickness that germinated in Dade County has already been transplanted by misguided liberals in the U.S. Congress.
Anita Bryant believed that the gay community was attempting to connect with kids at a young age, to indoctrinate them into their lifestyle.
Just biologically, the god-made medicine of we can reproduce homosexuals.
cannot reproduce biologically,
but they have to reproduce. by recruiting our children. The Save Our Children group is appealing to parental anxieties, saying gays will flaunt their homosexuality before impressionable children. The homosexuals or gays immediately began their counterattack, demanding equal rights and human rights for a minority group.
Bob Kunst, one of the original gay activists that helped draft the new law, became the unofficial spokesman of support for the ordinance. He countered Anita, arguing that the gay community had no intention of pushing its lifestyle on kids. The issue of homosexuals recruiting young children is a total false issue.
We're not educating our kids about homosexuality. She's doing it. We're not talking about anything. If anything, we've kept a very low profile on the whole business, but we're not about to be intimidated by her.
Anita Bryant pushed back hard. She believed that the gay community was using human rights as a ruse, a kind of Trojan horse, to influence America's youth.
Anyone has a right to be a homosexual. It's a choice. We are saying that there are no human rights to correct our children. I believe that more than ever before, that there are evil forces round about us, even perhaps disguised as something good. That would want to tear down the very foundation,
the family unit that holds America together.
Anita Bryant even took to the debate stage against Bob Kunst, arguing that homosexual teachers would negatively influence America's vulnerable youth.
We talk about the danger of the homosexual becoming a role model to our children. I'm not talking necessarily of child molestation in the physical. I'm talking about the psychological, which is even more detrimental. It would have far-reaching effects on our children and on our nation.
Bob Kunst responded, arguing that there was nothing in their ordinance that would allow gay teachers to promote their lifestyle to kids.
It has nothing to do with sex acts whatsoever. Strictly allows all people, gay, bisexual and heterosexual, the right to a job and the right to a house based on affectional and sexual preference. It has nothing to do with sex acts whatsoever.
The media did its part to pick up the human rights mantra of the gay community, while ignoring the religious liberty position of Anita Bryant.
Campaign headquarters of the gays. They are fighting to keep the law, which they say involves human rights. Human rights.
And the gay activists had more than just the media on their side. You see, Bob Kunst and his team understood that this local fight could go national. So, they brought in national gay organizations to help with fundraising and organizing. Then, to ensure the issue would go national, they redirected Anita Bryant's fame, just like a jiu-jitsu master, to garner national attention.
The human rights referendum on June 7th is a major news story nationwide. It's difficult to pick up a national magazine without reading something about Dade's upcoming election and gay rights. The CBS TV news. Even the television networks have something to say. The battle over homosexual rights in Dade County, Florida, a battle pitting singer Anita Bryant against gay rights activists, comes to a vote there Tuesday.
The issue is whether or not to repeal a four-month-old ordinance which prohibits job and housing discrimination against homosexuals.
In the homestretch to voting day, June 7th, 1977,, the temperature on the streets of Miami began to rise.
As the controversy over what has become known as the gay rights ordinance increased and the charges against both the advocates and the Save Our Children people heated up, a do-or-die campaign went into high gear. If you allow one, just one human being, to be allowed to have his rights taken away from him as a human being, then, pal, you don't have any right when it comes to take away your rights. Because if you say screw you to them, they say screw you to you, and six million more Jews wind up in the toilets, and I'm not going to wind up with them. Bumper stickers began appearing along with full-page ads in the newspaper. Workers at campaign headquarters for both sides began the numerous calls soliciting funds.
Brochures were prepared. Nobody can accurately predict the outcome of the human rights question here before Tuesday's election.
Finally, voting day arrived.
Singer. Anita Bryant's well-publicized emotional crusade to repeal Dade County's gay rights law ended at the voting booth. today. 300,000 Miamians, a much larger turnout than expected, voted. Many believed Miami Beach's liberal voters would swing the election for the gay rights cause, but Anita Bryant has rallied thousands of fundamentalist Christians to her side for a strong anti-homosexual counterattack.
I know the Christian community have never been involved in any political controversial issue, and they're not only involved, but they're committed, and they're not only going to, they've not only been working very hard, but they're going to come out and vote today.
As the votes were being cast, Bob Kunst remained confident that the gay ordinance would stand.
But Anita Bryant was equally as confident.
As the results started trickling in, the winner quickly became clear.
And the vote is going now, 18,930 for repeal, 8,869 against repeal. That's a climb now to 68% of the actual vote for repeal. Virgil, is that enough, with 10% in for you to make a projection? Yes, I think very definitely that the ordinance is going to be repealed. With this margin, it's over.
So the people have spoken. They spoke very clear, very loud. It was a decisive end to Dade County's homosexual controversy. 200,000 Miamians told their elected officials they wanted no part of the law which protects homosexuals in jobs and housing. It was an emotional issue, and the number of voters who turned out set a record for a special election.
The strongest vote against the homosexuals was in the Cuban community, but blacks, middle class whites, blue collar precincts, and upper middle class areas helped repeal the ordinance by more than two to one. Support for the gays was mainly limited to the Jewish community in Miami Beach and the Coconut Grove section where many homosexuals live and work. Anita Bryant's leadership to defeat the law generated the national attention. Tonight, the laws of God and the cultural values of man have been vindicated. I thank God for the strength he has given me and my family, and I especially thank my fellow citizens who joined me in what at first was a walk through the wilderness.
The people of Dade County, the normal majority, have said enough, enough, enough. In victory. last night, she talked about taking her anti-gay campaign on the road. We've already been contacted by many communities and individuals all across the nation who have similar problems and are concerned and want our help. So the issue will leave Miami now to be thrashed out on a national level, by Congress, by the courts, or by the people.
The gay community soundly lost in Miami.
But even in defeat, the beginnings of a national political movement had formed. You see, from the beginning, Bob Kuntz's group enlisted national gay organizations to get involved with the effort, not just to defend the Miami Ordinance, but to prepare for a wider fight for the normalization of homosexuality.
This was the moment that gay became a household topic, and the homosexual community had a plan in motion. They understood that similar ordinances in other cities would be challenged. So, first they had to organize in every state in the country to push their gay agenda. But they knew that they were outnumbered. So, they had to send a warning shot to anyone that was considering resisting their effort.
In the wake of the defeat in Miami, one gay activist introduced this approach. We're going to let them know that Anita Bryant and any other Christian bigots have stepped on the wrong minority, because we will fight back. We won't go back in our closets anymore. Early on in the Miami fight, gay activists and their allies decided to make an example of Anita Bryant by attacking her livelihood.
Richard Schack was Anita's booking agent, and remember, he was also the husband of Ruth Schack, the politician that sponsored the gay ordinance. Anita made a huge portion of her income performing at state fairs, which Mr. Schack booked. Well, in a move that sent a message to the entire entertainment industry, Mr. Schack publicly dumped Anita as his client, claiming that he could no longer represent someone who so badly maligned what he believed in.
Gay activists and their allies set their sights on another major source of Anita's income, her job as a spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission. Anita had been the face of the Florida orange industry for almost a decade. If the activists could wage a successful campaign against the fruit, it would diminish her value to that industry. So, they launched a boycott effort. Gay activists started a letter-writing campaign to the Florida Citrus Commission, demanding they fire Anita.
She immediately felt the pressure.
They're coming attacking my livelihood, and it's undermined a 10-year relationship with Florida Citrus of goodwill.
Gay activists began puncturing orange juice containers. They made songs urging the public to dump the fruit drink. Gay bars even stopped serving screwdrivers, a popular cocktail made from vodka and orange juice. And that's where Hollywood joined in.
At the time, Tinseltown already had a gay normalization campaign underway. A few months before the Miami vote, Three's Company hit American TV sets. The show featured a character named Jack Tripper who was looking for a place to live. The series addressed the gay ordinances in a roundabout way. In the debut episode, two beautiful single women roommates, Janet and Chrissy, fall in love with Jack's cooking and ask him to be their roommate.
But when Jack introduces himself to the lady's landlord, Mr. Roper, Mr. Roper refuses to allow a man to live with two single women in his building.
This is our landlord. Tripper. Jack Tripper. I'm moving in here. No, the one I saw was completely...
Oh, no, you're not. I'm not. Are you crazy? Moving in with two girls? Not my building at all.
Wait a minute. That would be strictly platonic. Well, I don't care what it is.
Jack leaves upset to get dressed. But when he returns to give Mr. Roper a piece of his mind...
Mr. Roper, I have something I want to tell you. I wouldn't live under your roof for all the time. All right, son. Janet just explained it to us.
I'm sorry, I misjudged you. Oh? You can move in. It's all right. Oh.
Mr. Roper is now strangely fine with Jack living with the girls. Once the landlord exits, Janet explains how she was able to convince the landlord to let Jack live with them.
How'd you get him to change his mind? Easy. I just convinced him that nothing would happen between Jack and us. How did you do that? Well, I told him that Jack was a decent, respectable, hardworking young man.
And that did it? Not quite. I also told him that you were gay.
In other words, the landlord was allowing Jack to live in the apartment because he was homosexual. For the duration of the series, Jack Tripper is a lovable, harmless, faux gay man. And in the process, Tinseltown was subtly normalizing homosexuality.
Already, aligned with the gay community, Hollywood joined in on the effort to destroy Anita's career. They lampooned her on Saturday Night Live.
Our top story tonight, Anita Bryant, former mediocre actress and orange juice promoter, performed coitus in public yesterday and campaigned to promote heterosexuality. She and her husband, O.J., are both gay. Assumed the missionary position for two minutes, then announced she is a citrosexual.
Popular sitcom. Maude promoted the boycott of orange juice.
Now, what can I do for you? A bourbon on the rocks, please. And you? I'll have an orange juice. We don't serve orange juice anymore.
And even famed nighttime host Johnny Carson would eventually pile on Anita.
Thirteen Queens Boulevard.
Thirteen Queens Boulevard.
Name an address. Anita Bryant will never have.
These attacks were kill shots to Anita's Hollywood career. It signaled to the entire industry and the corporate sponsors funding it that Anita Bryant was persona non grata in Tinseltown. She had a TV show in the works. It was quickly dropped. A local bank dumped commercials featuring her.
The pressure on Anita and her husband grew.
Out in Hollywood, we have been boycotted by the actors and actresses. So they said they would not appear on these shows. if I would even make a personal appearance talking about my book. They don't want my side of the story to come out, because it's the truth. Are you being blackballed?
It looks that way. It's worse than that. We're being threatened and there's all kinds of harassment, even with my job with Florida Citrus. But I still know that God's going to take care of us. I'm not afraid.
We're not afraid. But we're not going to shut up because people disagree with us. I think that's a basic right in America. Anita Bryant's role as a leader in the campaign against homosexuals may be hurting her campaign to sell orange juice. The chairman of the Florida Citrus Commission says if her anti-gay activities hurt orange juice sales, she'll be dropped from the organization's commercials.
Yesterday, the commission's publicity director said he wished Miss Bryant would resign her orange juice role because of her role in the homosexual issue.
The gay activists were not only making Anita toxic to her employers, they began following her around, harassing her and her husband at every turn.
Homosexuals started fighting back. The gays, formed new groups and picketed the performers' public appearances, forcing her to cancel a few. Anita Bryant and her husband, Bob Green, returned home after she had completed a television interview under tight security in New York. She also had to cancel a news conference there when gay activists said they would cause traffic jams and put picket lines around her hotel.
Despair started to creep into her husband's public statements.
As the leaders have said, they're going to hound us wherever we go, whether it's on vacation or whether it's pursuing our religious beliefs and churches, or whether it's pursuing our career.
Activists in the media even tried connecting Anita to a murder in San Francisco.
Anita Bryant is now being sued for $5 million by a San Francisco mother, who charges that the singer's activities contributed to the recent murder of her homosexual son.
They say that witnesses have told police that the accused murderers in stabbing Hillsborough more than 15 times said, here's one for Anita.
As gay activists ramped up their attacks, the pressure appeared to be wearing on the entertainer.
Several hundred homosexuals came into the auditorium, sitting quietly until she seemed to refer to them as sinners, and that set them off. About 150 gay demonstrators shouted and walked from the auditorium. After Ms. Bryant was given a five-minute standing ovation by the audience, she tried to continue her explanation.
When I said the word homosexual,
that they didn't hear the last part of those verses,
that God said, such were some of you, that ye are washed,
ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was an emotional evening for Anita Bryant, but she said she plans to continue her battle against gay rights ordinances in other communities.
But by the end of the 1977 summer, Anita and her husband had had enough. The constant attacks and the damage to her career had taken a toll. So the two decided to pull out of future efforts to fight similar gay ordinances in other cities.
For us to go in and take a crusade in all the different cities and have referendums like Miami, I don't believe will happen. We're not carpetbaggers and we don't ever want to be carpetbaggers. So Anita Bryant will return to her career. She will offer advice to those who seek it, but she has decided not to lead her so-called foot soldiers of God on a national crusade.
Anita Bryant and her husband thought that they were out of the fight. But what they didn't realize at the time was that the gay activists weren't done. They wanted to destroy everything she represented, including her beauty.
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So in the summer of 1977, gay activists and their allies stepped up their attacks on Anita Bryant and her husband. They boycotted orange juice, blacklisted her in Hollywood, and harassed her at every turn. By the end of the summer, Anita and her husband had had enough. They decided to pull out from all Future Save Our Children efforts in other cities. Anita and Bob thought that they were out of the fight, but what they didn't realize was that the gay activists weren't done yet.
They wanted to destroy everything that she represented, including her beauty. In late October 1977, Anita became victim to a form of activism that would mark a turning point in America.
If we were going to go on a crusade across the nation and try to do away with the homosexuals, then we certainly would have done it on June, the 8th, after one of the most overwhelming victories in the country. But we didn't. We tried to avoid it.
As she spoke at a Des Moines press conference, confirming that she'd stepped down from the Save Our Children effort, a gay activist walked up to Anita Bryant and did something no one had ever seen before. He smacked her in the face with a pie.
Security agents, security agents. No, no, let him stay. Well, at least it's a fruit pie. Let's pray for him right now. Anita, let's pray.
Anita, why don't you pray?
That's all right.
Father, we want to thank you for the opportunity of coming to Des Moines. Father, I want to ask that you forgive him. That we love him. And that we love him, and that we're praying for him to be delivered from his deviant lifestyle, Father. And I just...
We forgive you.
The attack hit TV screens all across the country. It was a shocking moment. Anita Bryant was assaulted for the entire world to see, and the media gave her little sympathy. In one vicious strike, gay activists silenced her voice, attacked her beauty, and ended her career. It wasn't long before the Florida Citrus Commission ended their decade-long relationship with the entertainer.
Yes, Jesus loves me. Anita Bryant was once known as an orange juice saleswoman. Not anymore.
She'd lost her TV show and her commercial work. She was dropped as the spokeswoman for orange growers. Her event bookings dried up, and she was even dumped as commentator for the Orange Bowl Parade. Her career was ruined. The pressure applied by gay activists was so devastating that it destroyed her marriage.
Three years after her victory repealing the gay ordinance in Miami, she divorced Bob Green. She'd eventually have to claim bankruptcy. Anita Bryant would become perhaps the first conservative victim of cancel culture as we recognize it today, a phenomenon practically invented by gay activists.
When gay activists were done ruining Anita Bryant's life, they turned their energy to the movement she created that was sweeping the nation. Anita's victory in Miami inspired a wave of activists across the country to repeal similar ordinances in their neck of the woods. In the spring of 1978, Christians successfully repealed a gay ordinance in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Let this historic petition and vote by the people of St. Paul be a vivid reminder to our elected officials that they represent us fairly.
Another gay normalization law went down in Wichita.
It was a proud moment for the Reverend, Ron Adrian. He and his supporters called it an overwhelming victory for the right to protect their children. How can we possibly have a law giving special rights to sex deviants without infringing on the rights of our children? That's what this election has been all about. Blacks like Ernestine Daniels voted 7 to 3 against the gays.
It doesn't bother me being me because I'm grown, but I don't want my children, you know, to be exposed to this.
A few weeks later, a third pro-gay ordinance was struck down in Eugene, Oregon.
Predictions of a close election didn't come true. The residents of Eugene decided by a 2 to 1 margin against protecting homosexuals from discrimination. Eugene's gay community lost.
It looked as if the gay movement was going to be pushed out of the mainstream spotlight for the foreseeable future. But then came Cali. In early 1978, a California state senator by the name of John Briggs introduced a proposition that was broader than Miami's ordinance.
Unlike earlier gay rights questions in other parts of the country, it would not apply just to homosexuals. The law would empower school boards to fire anyone for advocating, soliciting, imposing, encouraging, or promoting a private or public homosexual activity directed at or likely to come to the attention of schoolchildren and or other employees.
The proposition was to be voted on in November 1978.
. Gay activists saw this as a do-or-die moment. Although they'd been experiencing defeats. trailing back to Miami a year earlier, they'd been organizing to make a last stand in their gay mecca, California. This was the moment their political organizing in Miami would stand the test of a building wave.
You see, ever since their defeat, they knew this day would come, as activist Bob Kuntz stated in the wake of his defeat in Miami.
We have a national movement. We've created an entire awareness throughout not just this country, but all over the world, as to the discrimination that's going on. And Fenita thinks that the gay community is going back into its closet from this. She's sorely mistaken.
But the activists had their work cut out for them. When initial polls came out, a whopping 75% of Californians favored the proposition. It looked like it was going to pass easily, but the gay activists, the media, and Hollywood began to chip away at its support. In June 1978, at a pride parade in San Francisco, gay activists introduced the rainbow-colored flag that would come to be known as the pride flag. It became their rallying symbol.
Week after week, the narrative machine shaved a few points of support from Proposition 6.
. With the vote just a few months away, opponents of the proposition looked like they'd hit their ceiling. The polls remained steadily in support of Proposition 6 passing, but then a rising political star changed the trajectory of the issue. As voting day approached, presidential hopeful Ronald Reagan came out against Proposition 6..
Most California political leaders, from Governor Jerry Brown to former Governor Ronald Reagan, say there are already enough laws on the books to protect children. And they're apparently convincing California voters. In late August, the California Field Poll made Proposition 6 a two-to-one favorite. Last week, it showed the measure losing by 22 points among voters most likely to go to the polls on Tuesday.
The standard bearer of the conservative movement turned out to be the difference in defeating the proposition. The gay activists had successfully erected a wall in California that stopped Christian activists from purging them from elementary school teaching positions. And it was Ronald Reagan that placed a few bricks in that wall.
In their headquarters near Los, Angeles, the supporters of Proposition 6 turned somber when the returns clearly showed they'd been defeated. The mood among opponents to Proposition 6 was quite different in downtown Los Angeles, where Mayor Tom Bradley applauded their campaign efforts.
The pride movement had matured.
Over the next 20 years, gay activists, the media, and Hollywood chipped away at Christian conservatives and the nuclear family to erase all barriers to gay normalization. In movies like Footloose, they portrayed the faith-based community as uncool and backward. In movies like Private Benjamin and Mr. Mom and TV shows like Who's the Boss, they erased traditional gender roles. In musicals like Hairspray and bands like Culture Club, they celebrated gender-bending characters.
Thank you, America. You've got taste, style, and you know a good drag queen, when you see one.
They disrupted churches to scare the faith-based community into silence.
One thousand pro-homosexual protesters blocked the entrance to the auditorium. The Christians had to fight their way into the building and fight to be heard.
And if anyone ever thought about resisting this shift, just remember what happened to Anita Bryant. Inch by inch, one story at a time, they pushed homosexuality into the mainstream. Then, in December 1998, activists took another shot at passing a gay ordinance in Miami. As before, at a public hearing, the faith-based community came out in sharp opposition to exposing their children to openly homosexual teachers.
This country was not based and founded upon principles of homosexuals. This country was based upon Christian principles from the very beginning. So, as a Christian, as a member of this community, this ordinance is not about discrimination. It's about a preference that the gay community want. And I say that this commission should vote it down.
Do individuals who engage in homosexual activities deserve to be given additional civil rights or human rights beyond what is now given to every citizen of this great country? In other words, do certain individuals in our community deserve additional civil rights or human rights protection based squarely on their sexual orientation? The answer to these two similar questions should be a resounding no.
As the vote was tallied, it looked like the result could go either way.
Commissioner Kerry? Yes. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla? No. Commissioner Ferguson?
Yes. Commissioner Millon? No. Commissioner Morales? Yes.
The vote climbed to six to six. When the man with the deciding vote began discussing the rationale behind his decision.
The experience of African Americans is not the same experience as the gay community as it relates to discrimination. And I reject the comparisons that have been made.
It appeared the gay ordinance was going to be struck down. But then...
As it relates to these issues that have been brought up, and my vote is yes.
Motion passed. It's seven to six.
21 years after Anita Bryant defeated an anti-Christian ordinance, the homosexual community won the right to be openly gay teachers of kids. The Trojan rainbow had entered the classroom. In a little over a decade, Pride Month would become a mainstream phenomenon. And our children would never be the same.
Not all boys have a penis and not all girls have a vagina.
Desmond, you're one of the youngest and first drag queen slash kids.
A lot of people, when they hear the term pedophile, they automatically assume that it means a sex offender. And that isn't true. And it leads to a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors.
Which leads us back to the question. How did Pride Month become ubiquitous?
Homosexuality went mainstream by entering the classroom. From the beginning of the 1976 fight in Miami, gay activists claimed the faith-based community's fears were unfounded.
But the gay community knew that by introducing children at a very young age to their lifestyle, they'd ultimately be planting the seed of their future normalcy. Practically everything the faith-based community feared when first fighting homosexual infiltration of the classroom has come true. The nuclear family has been destabilized, gender roles are being erased, sexual perversion has been mainstreamed, and innocent children have been physically and psychologically abused. I had closer friendships with random women I met in the bathroom before I transitioned at clubs because of how open women are than I've had in my eight years of transitioning. Nobody told me how lonely being a man is.
The moment the Trojan rainbow was allowed into the classroom, the fabric of America was frayed. Anita Bryant would later reflect on her battle with gay activists.
And I went into hiding. I didn't want to see the public. I never wanted to sing again. Certainly never faced the press. I remember lying in the bed in my mother's house in a fetal position and wanting to die.
But she eventually came to a new understanding of her effort.
Today, I can honestly say that there is such a peace and a confidence and a maturity, if you will, that could have only come out of going down to those pits of despair and despondency and wanting to take my life. That I knew God was there in hell, the same as he was, you know, at times when I thought life was heaven. I did what was right. And the rest is history.
And whatever happened to Bob Kunst, the gay activist that fought Anita in Miami?
Well, Mr. Kunst, the same guy that scoffed at the claim that gays wanted to recruit kids, continues his activism to this day. When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis prohibited public school teachers from teaching the gay agenda to kindergartners through third graders, Bob Kunst came out in support of DeSantis. It turns out, Anita was right and Bob was wrong. The Trojan rainbow was always about converting children, and the gay community isn't even hiding it anymore.
Making an event kid-friendly doesn't mean sanitizing it, aka taking something like kink out of pride.
Americans must do everything in their power to fight the corruption of our children. The grooming must stop. But thankfully, parents are rising up to protect their kids, and it's creating some unexpected alliances.
Protests turning violent following a school board decision in Glendale, California. Parents have been taking their kids out of classes. They've been upset, demanding to see new Pride Month curriculum. They're upset over what their children are being taught about gender identity and the LGBTQ plus community. There was a similar demonstration in Montgomery County, Maryland, where parents shouted to protect our kids and family rights.
This was in Baltimore and in Washington, D.
C. The parents are saying no opt-out policy for approved books that feature LGBTQ plus characters and themes. A lot of people who are in this group of protesters were Christian and Muslim parents.
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