Anita Bryant, who has died aged 84, was a 1960s pop singer, former beauty queen and “brand ambassador” for the Florida Citrus Commission who became a conservative icon and liberal hate figure in the 1970s when she campaigned against homosexuality and gay adoptions.

Anita Bryan founded Save Our Children, an anti-gay organization that gave rise to the modern-day religious right's strategy of tying homosexuality to perceived threats against children.