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#26

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:38pm

Don't forget when the gays stoned Anita Bryant with peach pits in the late 70's.

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#27

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:42pm

Poor Anita.

#28

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:45pm

I wasnt saying it was a true statement, just that it was earlier than the mid 80s as I recall, and that was the statement I heard attributed to her...I believed it then, I'll admit.

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#29

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:46pm

Oh yeah...and I remember kicking Anita in the gut in 1992. It was the third of June, another sleepy dusty delta day.

#30

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:46pm

Are you being literal or metaphorical there?

#31

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:47pm

Pal Joey must love him some Miss Donna. You go Joey. :)

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#32

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:49pm

It wasnt all that dusty.

#33

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:50pm

If those activists had kept quiet and not stoned her with peach pits, we gays today might be getting stoned with, uh, stones.

(eta -- though I'm not sure of the relevance here, because I don't think Anita Bryant has ever backed away from anything she said)

Updated On: 8/7/06 at 03:50 PM

#34

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:52pm

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#35

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:53pm

Who is Anita and what happened to her? what did she say?

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#36

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:54pm

Oh sweet jesus.

*having a Paul Lynde moment*

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#37

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:55pm

yikes

#38

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 3:58pm

Muscle, you can Wikipedia her.

#39

ny times: if you must know, i'm straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:02pm

she might even like it.

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#40

re: NY Times: If You Must Know, I'm Straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:05pm

Musc--it happened in your neck of the woods--Florida.

She was a tacky lounge singer from the 1960 who because the spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Association. In 1977, she led an effort to repeal a new law that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, saying "If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards--and to nailbiters!"

She won--and it took until 1997 for that law to be reinstated.

But the resulting boycott aagainst Florida orange juice severely hurt the Florida economy.

Bryant later went bankrupt and discovered that one of her sons was gay.

#41

ny times: if you must know, i'm straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:05pm

If you wikipediated someone in Branson, would they feel it?

#42

ny times: if you must know, i'm straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:06pm

it's illegal in branson.

#43

ny times: if you must know, i'm straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:11pm

"Anita Bryant is a bedpan with feet" or "Anita Bryant looks like you, only without a human head and lives in a shopping cart"-quotes from Judy Tenuta about Anita. Just to give muscle a "visual feel for her"

Updated On: 8/7/06 at 04:11 PM

#44

ny times: if you must know, i'm straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:14pm

She also was one of the first celebs to get pied as a point of protest.

#45

ny times: if you must know, i'm straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:22pm

oh, so Mandisa was an IDOL singer.

Isn't it un-Christian to be worshipped as an idol?!?!?

I'll admit that some comments stick in my craw, but I try to look at the balance of their lives and remember how new to PR some are---for instance, when Wil Smith was doing press for SIX DEGREES (the film), he said Denzel advised him not to kiss men on screen. My attitude was and is, don't take the role if you are uncomfortable with the implications. They both went on to very good, and some cases, nearly sensitive to the cause, work (Denzel in PHILADELPHIA, though that film has some issues and so did his character). Everyone evolves at a different rate.

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#46

ny times: if you must know, i'm straight

Posted: 8/7/06 at 6:52pm

"Don't forget when the gays stoned Anita Bryant with peach pits in the late 70's."

"The gays"? Is that like "the blacks"?

"Bryant later went bankrupt and discovered that one of her sons was gay."

Oh, the irony!

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