Rev. Steve Pieters, an HIV survivor and gay activist who helped shift views around HIV/AIDS the ’80s, has died at 70. Pieters was known for his landmark terview wh televangelist Tammy Faye Baker on her broadst which went to lns of nservative Christians. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well lived.
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- REV. STEPHEN PIETERS, HIV SURVIVOR AND GAY ACTIVIST, DI AT 70
- REV. STEPHEN PIETERS, HIV SURVIVOR AND GAY ACTIVIST, DI AT 70
- ON “SURVIVOR,” A GAY MAN SHOCKGLY OUTS A TRANS MAN
REV. STEPHEN PIETERS, HIV SURVIVOR AND GAY ACTIVIST, DI AT 70
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Steve Pieters, an HIV survivor and gay activist who helped shift views around HIV/AIDS the ’80s, has died at 70. ***Spoilers below***Survivor, the CBS realy TV show which maroons strangers together on a serted island jt to watch them vote each other out one by one, has been a queer show om the very begng — the first player voted out was gay. The first wner was gay.
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REV. STEPHEN PIETERS, HIV SURVIVOR AND GAY ACTIVIST, DI AT 70
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Cagayan was my favore season. JT: “Don’t get gay on me now, ’s only Day 16. ” Stephen: “I have time to get gay the future is what you’re sayg?
ON “SURVIVOR,” A GAY MAN SHOCKGLY OUTS A TRANS MAN
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Varner, a gay man om North Carola, then outed Smh as a transgenr man.
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