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Anita Bryant, Whose Anti-Gay Politics Undid a Singing Career, Is Dead at 84
Anita Bryant, the singer and former beauty queen who had a robust and flourishing music career, including hit songs like “Paper Roses,” in the 1960s and ’70s, but whose opposition to gay rights — she called homosexuality “an abomination” — virtually destroyed her career, died on Dec. 16. She was 84.