He spent a year recruiting founding members, and on December 10, 1924, he filed with the state of Illinois for the ...

Anita Bryant, an activist known for her stance against gay rights, passed away at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, at the age of ...

The lawyers formally incorporated the SPLC in 1971, and civil rights activist Julian Bond was named the first president. Dees and Levin began seeking nationwide support for their work. People from ...

Anita Bryant Dry, known popularly Anita Bryant — a singer and crusader against the progress of gay rights — has died at the ...

King and the civil rights leaders who faced down the firehoses, and worse: There are reasons to favor gay rights. I think they’re misguided and that movement pressing them forward is waging a ...

Bryant led a coalition called Save Our Children against the gay rights movement. Among views that ... According to history, Bryant quipped that the pie was a “fruit pie” and then began praying ...

She also became the enemy that gay rights leaders needed to build a nationwide movement of their own. Bryant didn’t see herself as a political figure, but she did publicly support the Vietnam ...