"Today’s celebrities might sign their names to letters that suck, but Bryant went much further, advocating for homosexuality to be a felony and spearheading the “Save Our Children” campaign against gay rights by accusing LGBTQ+ people of grooming minors. “The recruitment of our children is absolutely necessary for the survival and growth of homosexuality,” Bryant’s group wrote in newspaper ads, “for since homosexuals cannot reproduce, they must recruit, must freshen their ranks.” (The campaign was later forced to change its name to “Protect America’s Children” after legal action from the humanitarian organization Save the Children.) Among Bryant’s new allies was infamous evangelical pastor Jerry Falwell, who appeared at rallies alongside Bryant to preach against LGBTQ+ “recruitment.” But although Bryant’s campaign kicked off a new era of anti-LGBTQ+ conservatism — essentially writing the playbook for today’s moral panic against transgender people — she also inadvertently galvanized the then-floundering gay rights movement itself. Bryant’s campaign and her involvement with the Dade County discrimination ordinance quickly made her an archnemesis to millions of LGBTQ+ people across the U.S."