Article 5PP8K ‘She got a lot of trouble for it’: how Tammy Faye Bakker went from televangelist to gay icon

‘She got a lot of trouble for it’: how Tammy Faye Bakker went from televangelist to gay icon

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David Smith in Washington
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In new film The Eyes of Tammy Faye, the unusually accepting religious TV star is brought to life by Jessica Chastain

Thirty-six years have passed but, at a cinema in New York this week, the memories came flooding back for Steve Pieters.

The Aids activist was attending the premiere of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a film that includes a recreation of a seminal TV interview he gave to Christian televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985.

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