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ANITA BRYANT ON THE MARCH:
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/__ 4It was June 7, 1977, late at night
in the ballroom of the Fontainebleu
Hotel, a giant white wedding-cake
wedge of fake-French chateau ar-
chitecture where "America's
Foremost Female Impersonators"
regularly entertain heterosexual
audiences at the Jewel Box Revue
nightclub. Hours before, Miami
voters had repealed the five-
month-old Dade County gay rights
ordinance by a 2-to-1 margin, and
most of the TV cameras had al-
ready come and gone from an ach-
ingly defiant "Victory Party" of the
pro-gay Dade County Coalition for
Human Rights. But a few hundred
people remained to dance and talk
and listen to the brave speeches
that have become traditional in
times of defeat.
"There's a song that's been used
a lot in this campaign by the other
side," said Leonard Matlovich,
who won a Bronze Star in Vietnam
before he was discharged from the
Air Force for homosexuality. "ButAbove: Bryant with husband (center) ,
and minister; (right) the coalition.
it's our song too, and I think we
should all join hands and sing it
together-'The Battle Hymn of the
Republic.' " Slowly the audience
picked up the rhythm of the hymn,
and at the second chorus Arlie
Scott, vice-president of the Na-
tional Organization for Women,
took the mike and led us in a new
version: "Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Her truth is marching on!" Then, in
a moment freeze-framed forever in
my mind, Scott and Matlovich and
a half dozen others suddenly car-
ried an American flag from the
stage in their hands, like Iwo Jima
soldiers in reverse; and a hundred
people linked arms, weeping,
marching, and swaying around the
flag like a revival-meeting congre-
gation, singing not for the media,
but for the country, for each other,
and for themselves.
It was one of the few times in the
last two weeks of the campaignN~he
Lessons of
Dade
County
By
Lindsy Van GelderSeptember 1977/Ms./75
Photographs by Bettye Lane
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van Gelder, Lindsy. [Clipping: Anita Bryant on the march: The lessons of Dade County], clipping, September 1977; Arlington County, VA. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1787571/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.