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In this website you will learn about how a campaign started by someone who was rich and famous almost destroyed a whole entire community. You will also learn about how the LGBTQ+ community got more rights and how Anita Bryant was in the center of it all.
The way it interacts with the theme, "Debate and Diplomacy in History" is there is debate on two sides. The people who supported the campaign, and the people who were against the campaign. They both fought with each other about who’s point of view was right. In the end, the campaign almost won. Anita Bryant, the leader of the campaign, also lost her career and fame because of it. It silenced the community for a long time, but then the LGBTQ+ community stepped out again and won. They also showed diplomacy because after a while after the campaign, the states decided to make more rights for LGBTQ+ communities.
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The Save Our Children Campaign was created by Anita Bryant, an anti-gay rights acvtivist, in 1977. Despite its best efforts, the Save Our Children Campaign is unsuccessful, through the efforts of the LGBTQ+ community with events like the pride parades in most major cities that reject hate and promote new social norms of acceptance and equality to those LGBTQ+ community.
Anita Bryant was initially a spokesperson for Florida and for Florida Orange Juice and she also won many pageants, like the Miss Oklahoma pageant and she even was Ms. America at one point. She started her campaign and people actually listened to her because they knew her from TV, like commercials and even maybe some movies. Sadly for her, after the campaign lost she got fired right away.
In the beginning of the Save Our Children campaign, people turned harshly against the LGBTQ+ community and many openly gay workers got fired. The LGBTQ+ community seemed to be silenced, but the LGBTQ+ community spoke up and began advocating for themselves and demonstrated their pride in many ways like holding the Pride Parade. They marched and protested against the Save Our Children campaign, mainly were peaceful but some were riots, but it seemed to work very well and they were able to bring the people’s attention to discrimination.
The Save Our Children Campaign was started to get rid of the LGBTQ+ community and it tried to do so in many ways.
The community came together in marches and parades, now known as the Pride Parade, and started to show how they felt about the Save Our Children campaign. Everyone started to realize that it was wrong for them to discriminate against the community, and gave them more rights. After the campaign backfired, many laws were changed. There was a law that was passed that prevented people from discriminating people just for their sexuality while they were doing public services, when they rent housing, and while employed. And in Florida, they passed a law that made sure that city workers were not discriminated against for their sexuality or gender identity. California even started to rehire gay teachers when they originally planned to ban them from schools all together! In several cities as well, money was also raised for a campaign for LGBTQ+ rights.
“Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.” -Karl Kraus “If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice.” -Mike Royko “Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.” -Reinaldo Arenas Michelangelo Thom L. Higgins
Thom Higgins, the son of Leo and Keherine Higgins, was born in Beaver, Wisconsin in 1950 and attended the University of North Dakota. Thom was later suspended from the university for writing an underground newspaper. Thom Higgins was a gay rights activist, and is most famously remembered for throwing a pie at Anita Bryant during a conference. Before breaking down in tears. Anita Bryant said: “At least it was a fruit pie.” Thom Higgins founded many groups such as FREE, the Church of the Chosen People, and The Gay Emperative. Higgins entered a nursing program in 1981, and earned his degree in 1983. Sadly, Thom died on November 10, 1994, when he was only 44 years old. He will be remembered for his work in gay rights activism, and played a very important role in it.
Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1476 in Italy. He is famous for the “Bacchus”, “Crucifixion of St. Peter”, “David”, “Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John”, “Moses”, “Pietà”, and “The Last Judgment”. “Bacchus” was one of his most early works. It shows the Roman God of wine and grapes with a goblet in his hand and faun(Half human half goat) behind him. “Crucifixion of St. Peter” is a painting that shows that some people are ready to do anything to be like Christ, even die for him. “David” is a statue that he made that resembles youthful beauty, independence and strength. “Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John.” is also known as “Taddei Tondo” and it is the only marble sculpture by Michelangelo in Great Britain. The sculpture shows the infant version of St. John, the Baptist, with a bowl that is used for baptizing. It shows him handing a goldfinch to represent the Passion to infant Christ, who turns away for a little while to look at his mother, showing the anticipation for his future destiny. “Moses” was meant to show Michelangelo’s own courage and passion when he was trying to finish the tomb of Pope Julius II. “Pietà” is also known as “The Pity” was the only piece of art that Michelangelo signed and it shows Jesues on the lap of his mother after he was killed. “The Last Judgment” was a painting that was put on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Now, let’s think for a while. If God is so against the idea of Gay people, why did someone that is homosexual make so many religious things that have to do with God.
Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer who was born in Gitschin, Bohemia (now known as Jičín, Czech Republic) on April 28, 1874 and died on June 12, 1936. Karl wrote many books that seemed less positive, and on more of a negative side, but he lived a famously rich life of the mind and probably sold a lot of his books. He wrote many, for example Apocalyptic Satirist: The Post-War Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika, Karl Kraus: A Viennese Critic of the Twentieth Century, Versuch eines geistigen Bildnisses (Attempt at a spiritual portrait), In These Great Times, etc. He wasn’t only an author, he was also a journalist, critic, playwright, and poet. He has also been compared to Juvenal and Jonathan Swift for his wit and use of language. In the World War I area, he was ranked as an outstanding writer of German literature, but it wasn’t recognized worldwide because it was untranslatable. He said in his magazine “Die Fackle” that on January 26, 1911, that sexualities unsettle families and the world.
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