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Anita Bryant, Gay Rights Icon | Andy Borowitz

Season 1 Episode 7

New Yorker magazine humorist Andy Borowitz examines how Anita Bryant, ubiquitous in the 1960s and 70s for commercials promoting Florida orange juice, inadvertently energized the gay rights movement.

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