Ugh

[terrya]

I'm at my folks' house. They're watching a rerun of "The Lawrence Welk Show". The special guest tonight is Anita Bryant.

I had to leave the room...otherwise I would have thrown a heavy object at the television when that disgusting, hatemongering, evil, homophobic bitch came on. I will never forget what she did.

[flamingyouth]

1. Here. This should cheer you up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS91gT3XT_A

[terrya]

2. That DID cheer me up, flamingyouth!

Thanks! :-)

[Turbineguy]

4. WOW!

[nomorenomore08]

15. David Allen Coe

had a song back then called "Fuck Anita Bryant." Quite likely the first pro-gay country song ever recorded.

[datasuspect]

17. could you imagine if they did that today?

they'd be taken down by paramilitary police forces and tasered.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. I didn't like Lawrence Welk the first time around....

I can't imagine watching it all these years later.

[terrya]

5. Well, actually neither do I.

It was so....Republican. All white performers...with the exception of African-American Arthur Duncan...who tap danced. It's sort of creepy to watch today.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. I am listening to "A Prairie Home Companion"

:D

The antithesis to Lawrence Welk.

[terrya]

10. That's a nice alternative!

BTW: I FINALLY saw "A Prarie Home Companion", Robert Altman's last film. GREAT. That was a nice end to a brilliant film career!

[Redstone]

6. Is that hateful bitch still alive? Haven't heard much about her lately.

Redstone

[terrya]

9. Yeah, she's still alive.

Until she apologizes for her homophobic past, she can rot in hell for all I care.

[Redstone]

11. Remember Karma. The evil that she did will catch up with her eventually.

Redstone

[terrya]

12. I will.

It was particularly heinous since her crusade against our rights in 1976 was called "Save Our Children". Like I said, when she apologizes fully for her homophobic actions, then I can let go of my hatred towards her.

[Redstone]

13. And until she does, you are absolutely justified in hating her. At least in my opinion.

Redstone

[flamingyouth]

14. It's weird. She's my dad's age.

When I was a kid I always thought she was about 165.

[caty]

7. Do away with

homosexuals? What was she planning? What a narrow minded airhead. But at least her crusade pretty much ended her career---which wasn't that great to begin with, as I recall.

"Through the 1980s and '90s Bryant continued to proclaim her Christianity, but had little to say about politics. She opened her own Anita Bryant Theater in Branson, Missouri, but ticket sales were weak, and Bryant relocated her stage show to an Arkansas tourist town, where she declared bankruptcy. She then opened the Anita Bryant Music Mansion in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, where the auditorium was rarely more than ¼ full. In all three states employees and bills were left unpaid when the Bryant operation went out of business. According to newspaper accounts, her unpaid taxes totaled $116,000 in Missouri, $172,000 in Arkansas, and about $490,000 in Tennessee.

In 1998, Miami-Dade county reinstated human rights protections for gays and lesbians. Five years later, the rightwing Christian Coalition backed a county-wide effort to repeal the law, but lost, with Bryant offering no public comment. One of Bryant's sons is reportedly gay."

http://www.nndb.com/people/177/000024105/

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. Wow, the Ralph Reeders trying to get a human protection law repealed?

Why hadn't I heard of this before? Geeeez....

And regarding Anita... Looking at her in the video shared by poster #1, my impression is that you can tell that she doesn't daydream about men. And is ashamed of being different, and of being pointed at and shunned.

[Skittles]

16. you want I should kick your folks' butts ?

I'll be fairly gentle