Anita was not only savaged, both she and her family were threatened in the late 70s for the principled moral stand she took. The threat included Anita’s mother who was then living in rural Oklahoma, west of Tulsa. I was a reserve deputy in that county and two of us were assigned on an overnight detail to watch her house due to the specific threats. Nothing ever happened and nobody ever approached the house. It did strike me as really incongruous that Florida homosexuals would threaten an elderly woman in rural OK because of something her daughter said or did. As another FReeper has noted, it likely marked a moment in the development of my own personal philosophy.
You are right. I will never forget.