Anita Bryant (Anti-LGBTQ Creep) & Canadian Hero (NON-Creep) Terry Fox
What a Creep
Sonia Mansfield
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Season 19, Episode 4
Anita Bryant
Sources for this episode:
- The Daily Beast
- Encyclopedia
- NBC News
- PBS
- Playboy
- The Slate podcast “One Year: 1977 - Anita Bryant’s War on Gay Right”
- Them
- Washington Post
- Wikipedia
Trigger warnings: Homophobia
Anita Bryant was a singer in the early ‘60s, but she’s probably best known for her Florida orange juice commercials in the early 70s. She could’ve just got her big juice money and lived a quiet life. Instead, she used her fame to strip basic human rights away from gay people.
And while trying to criminalize being gay was not new in the 70s, she’s the one who took it mainstream. The impact of her hateful campaign can be seen in the current “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida and the laws around the country targeting drag shows.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What A Creep, the show with Margot Donaue and Sonia Mansfield talking about |
| 0:06.2 | creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.9 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, the best of the |
| 0:13.6 | worst. |
| 0:14.6 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
| 0:27.1 | Welcome back to What A Creep, this is Margot Donaue and my cohort in creepitude as always |
| 0:31.5 | is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
| 0:33.5 | Hey Sonia, hello my friend. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello my friend, we are the show that talks about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:41.2 | We got us a really good, good old fashioned anti-gay creep that we're talking about today. |
| 0:49.4 | And then a person who did a really non-creepy thing and an awesome thing kind of around |
| 0:54.4 | the same time as our creep today. |
| 0:57.2 | Can I be more vague, sure? |
| 0:59.2 | Anyway, we do have a basic Facebook page, that's where people go to complain about our language. |
| 1:05.0 | Yes, we use salty language in this program, this is a show really for grownups. |
| 1:09.8 | Fuck yeah, we have a private Facebook group, that's where Sonia and I are the most interactive, |
| 1:14.5 | it's the only time you'll see Sonia on Facebook really, pretty, pretty much, so it's a private |
| 1:20.6 | group, you have to ask to join, there's three little questions and if you listen to |
| 1:23.5 | the top of the show, if you show, you'll know what those answers are. |
| 1:26.9 | It's easy. |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah, just look up what a creep podcast group, answer those questions, get the premise |
| 1:30.6 | just not to be a shithead when you show up and pretty much, well, hang out and have fun. |
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