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...from driving America's homosexuals back into the closet, Anita Bryant has lured them out onto the streets. Less than three weeks after Bryant and her supporters persuaded Dade County, Fla., voters to repeal the local gay civil rights ordinance (TIME, June 20), demonstrators marched last weekend in at least eight U.S. cities to protest that decision. In New York, some 50,000 gays and nonhomosexual sympathizers crammed Fifth Avenue sidewalk to sidewalk for almost 1½ miles. In San Francisco, the West Coast's gay capital, 125,000 turned out. Because previous San Francisco parades had been...
...many "straights" and could produce a backlash among them. Bruce Voeller, co-executive director of the National Gay Task Force, concedes that there has been a "flurry of firings" of homosexuals in Dade County and that at least one state legislature -Oklahoma's-has passed a resolution endorsing Bryant's position. But in Illinois a similar motion was withdrawn after being sarcastically attacked by a number of legislators. Said Representative Harold D. Byers: "Next we'll be passing a resolution congratulating the Nazis who want to march through Skokie [a Chicago suburb]." In Massachusetts the first state...
...here in Texas are so glad to hear that Anita Bryant will be coming to San Antonio...
...Anita Bryant has set the goals of Christianity back seven centuries...
...culture is rather like a radio receiving many disparate signals simultaneously. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's utterances detonate like cherry bombs. Anita Bryant, the Pasionaria of heterosex, arouses furies in her campaign against homosexuals. The air is full of serious issues that few people except those directly affected take all that seriously: human rights, Laetrile, Idi Amin...