On this day in 1977, gay rights activist Thom Higgins pied Anita Bryant in the face during a televised press conference in Des Moines, Iowa. Bryant was vehemently anti-gay, leading the “Save our Children” campaign, which fought to repeal an ordinance in Dade County, Florida that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation. That campaign used fear-mongering and wildly homophobic rhetoric, which portrayed LGBTQ as a threat to children (sound familiar?) The ordinance was designed to prote