ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Anita Bryant

Anita Bryant was a lady who became famous in the 1970s for singing and also for her opinion about people who loved someone of the same gender.

Now, you know how some boys like girls and some girls like boys, right? Well, some boys like boys and some girls like girls. It's just a different way of loving someone.

Anita didn't like that. She thought that only boys and girls should be together, and she said that it was wrong for boys to love boys and girls to love girls. This made a lot of people very upset.

Some people even stopped buying the things that she advertised for, like orange juice, because they didn't want to support a person who didn't accept everyone's love.

So, some people protested against her and tried to pass laws to protect the rights of people who loved someone of the same gender. It was a big deal and Anita became a symbol of people who didn't want to accept others.