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The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God is presented at The Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.A campaign spearheaded by former beauty queen and country singer Anita Bryant results in the repeal of an ordinance in Dade County, Florida, USA, which had prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Bryant's reactionary views and activities will inspire the 1978 song Fuck
Aneta Briant by the ever-controversial country music outlaw David Allen Coe.
On the fourth leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, supported by Pure Prairie League and The Climax Blues Band. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, a black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.
A campaign by anti-gay Christian activist-singer Anita Bryant succeeds in achieving the repeal of an ordinance in Florida, USA, that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, by a margin of 69 to 31 percent.