Tag: anita bryant

History from the Witness Stand: An Interview with George Chauncey

By Rachel Hope Cleves June 23, 2016 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

George Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in more than thirty cases dealing with gay rights.

Stalling Civil Rights: Conservative Sexual Thought has been in the Toilet Since the 1940s

Gillian Frank Houston’s Proposition 1 bathroom ordinance. What does it mean to you? Any man at any time could enter a woman’s bathroom simply by claiming to be a woman that day. No one is exempt. Even registered sex offenders could follow women or young girls into the bathroom and […]

Doing It With Food: Cooking and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank April 14, 2015 Food and Sexuality, Post-1945 United States 2 comments

Gillian Frank Romantic dinners for lovers are one of the sweet pleasures of life, and if you don’t initiate one, who will? Remember the thrill of that special dinner before you were married? … A late intimate dinner for two beside a crackling fire, or on the back porch amid […]

Organized Labor, Gay Liberation and the Battle Against the Religious Right, 1977-1994

By notcheseditor March 17, 2015 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 6 comments

Miriam Frank What common cause could bring organized labor together with gay liberation in the United States? When gay rights became a referendum question in municipal or statewide elections, unions’ strategic and direct participation or their indifference mattered profoundly for the fortunes of gay rights. Beginning in 1972, dozens of cities […]

The Yellow Star and the Pink Triangle: Judaism and Gay Rights in the 1970s

By Gillian Frank August 19, 2014 Childhood and Youth, Post-1945 United States, Religion and Sexuality 3 comments

Gillian Frank Homosexuals cannot reproduce—so they must recruit, and to freshen their ranks, they must recruit the youth of America. – Anita Bryant In 1977, Anita Bryant became the face of a right wing religious coalition, Save Our Children (SOC). SOC, which was based in Dade County Florida, enshrined into national conservative politics […]