Steve Pieters and The Eyes of Tammy Faye

TVC 553.5: Ed welcomes AIDS/HIV activist the Reverend Steve Pieters. One of the first non-celebrity figures to be identified with AIDS in the early 1980s, Steve's amazing story of surviving AIDS and two forms of cancer in 1985 is considered a medical anomaly and a modern-day miracle. In the world of popular culture, Steve is best known for an interview that he gave televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985, while he was recovering from the effects of the experimental AIDS drug suramin, that not only discussed and dispelled many of the myths surrounding HIV/AIDS, but marked the first time that a televangelist had given an affirming interview to a gay man living with AIDS. Steve's interview with Bakker is part of the backdrop of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a new movie starring Jessica Chastain that will be released on Friday, Sept. 17.

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