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Article Excerpt
The year was 1977, the place South Florida's Dade County. The world's attention was focused on gay rights, with singer and orange juice pitch-woman Anita Bryant leading a bizarre "Save Our Children" crusade to overturn a law protecting gay men and lesbians against discrimination. And when voters overwhelmingly repealed the ordinance, Bryant danced a jig, and her husband, Bob Green, kissed her for photographers. "This is what heterosexuals do, fellas," Green said.
The defeat was a watershed, galvanizing the gay rights movement nationally to organize for future battles while convincing far-right activists that they could raise money and gain power by fighting gay rights. It wasn't until 1998 that commissioners of what is now Miami-Dade County reinstated the antidiscrimination protections. Now, 25 years after Bryant led her antigay crusaders to victory, the religious right has again forced a referendum in the hope of repealing the county's ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing, public accommodations, and credit and finance....
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