Ladies Stay Safe, pt. 3: Anita Bryant, Bathrooms and Backlash
How a pageant queen turned tradwife incited America's most infamous antigay moral panic. Or did she?
Conspiracy, She Wrote · Unladylike Media
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Show Notes
In the 1970s, America’s moral panic machine found its perfect scapegoat: gay and lesbian teachers. Also bathrooms. Historian Gillian Frank unravels the roots of child trafficking and "groomer" conspiracies back to Red Scare paranoia, civil rights backlash, a conservative women's movement against the Equal Rights Amendment and the pageant queen-turned-evangelical superstar Anita Bryant. In part three of the LADIES, STAY SAFE! miniseries, Cristen traces America's twisted history of how fears about “corrupting the youth” became political currency, why those panics still grip us today and whether Anita was ultimately scapegoated, too.
part 3 of 5.
(00:00) Trafficking, pedos and groomers, oh my
(02:00) Must all red strings lead back to pedo panic??
(03:16) An Age-Old Conservative Obsession
(10:47) The Gay Witch-hunt of 1977
(14:51) Save Our (white) Children
(23:11) Was Anita Bryant to blame?
(26:40) Parallels to the Present
(32:55) "I think there's a lot of hope, right?"
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