Team Hateful: Episode 72 (Anita Bryant's Save Our Children Campaign)

Happy Pride y’all!!
‘Tis the season for gay scandals and gay scandalousness✨🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍🌈✨🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍🌈✨🏳️‍⚧️✨

In this episode, we have a light and summery classic that is one of our personal favs–the Aperol Spritz. This easy, quintessentially Italian cocktail’s American popularity peaked in the 70s, the era of STEPHANIE’s scandal.
🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/

In honor of Pride, STEPHANIE sheds a light on Anita Bryant and how her Save Our Children campaign birthed Florida's current LGBTQIA culture war on education. We 🥂to rightwing Americans symbolically using care for children as a weapon to move discussions away from liberty and justice for all to instead focus on what is in best interest of a child's education, which just so happens to maintain the status quo. 
Anita Bryant - Wikipedia
Thomas Lawrence Higgins - Wikipedia 
How 1970s Christian crusader Anita Bryant helped spawn Florida's LGBTQ culture war 
"The Civil Rights of Parents": Race and Conservative Politics in Anita Bryant's Campaign against Gay Rights in 1970s Florida 
Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve & Talent: Episode 56 (The Rise And Fall Of The Moral Majority) 
1970s in LGBT rights - Wikipedia 
WashingtonPost.com: Perfect Enemies: The Religious Right, the Gay Movement, and the Politics of the 1990s 
Anita Bryant  
DeSantis to expand 'Don't Say Gay' law to all grades | AP News  

Anita Bryant getting the pie in the face she deserved:
Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com 

ALSO DISCUSSED: F*ck them kids, gay bullshit, OUIJA board, choose your own adventure toast, Golden Girls, gassing up the youth, Agent Orange, no seasonings, gay citrus, the nerve, gall & gumption, The Third Wheel FM podcast, My Little Corner of the World by Connie Smith, Adam & Steve, Thomas Lawrence Higgins, Gen Z, god’s will, doing the white lady, Bob’s Burger, land of make-believe, dick scurvy, and be gay do crime!

For more info on our episode cocktail the : Aperol Spritz
1970s Cocktails that USA Drank
The History of the Aperol Spritz Drink
Classic Aperol Spritz recipe: how to make Italy's favorite aperitivo
Spritz (cocktail) - Wikipedia

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