'The Ey of Tammy Faye': How a Bible thumper beme a gay in

Contents:

• WAS JIM BAKKER SECRETLY GAY? SEXUALY AND RELATNSHIP - TAMMY FAYE EX HBAND
• HOW TELEVANGELIST TAMMY FAYE MSNER BEME A GAY IN
• ‘THE EY OF TAMMY FAYE’: HOW A BIBLE THUMPER BEME A GAY ADVOTE AND IN
• IS JIM BAKKER GAY? KNOW HIS EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIPS AND MORE

WAS JIM BAKKER SECRETLY GAY? SEXUALY AND RELATNSHIP - TAMMY FAYE EX HBAND

"At a prs nference May 1987, Falwell said the Bakkers were no longer f to lead PTL, accg Jim Bakker of beg secretly gay and claimed that Tammy Faye Bakker ma a long list of mands orr for them to give up plans to e back to PTL that clud large annual salari, two rs, a maid for one year and a furnished hoe on a lake, among other Bakkers too went on a media tour. This unlikely allyship, pl a penchant for over-the-top hair, makp, outfs, and dér—not to mentn a Judy Garland–que stggle to keep performg spe a growg penncy on prcriptn dgs—turned Tammy Faye to an unlikely gay in, so much so that World of Wonr, the team behd RuPl’s Drag Race, ma a 2000 documentary about her lled The Ey of Tammy Faye narrated by none other than Ru himself. The scene where Tammy Faye brgs on HIV-posive gay pastor Steve Pieters (Randy Havens) is pulled straight om real life.

To nsolidate his posn as print of PTL, Falwell not only reveals Bakker’s fancial misnduct but says he has had homosexual relatnships. Bakker nied unr oath that he had ever had a homosexual relatnship but his tobgraphy went so far as to mata that he was “very nfed” about his sexualy, the rult, he said, of beg molted by a male member of his fay’s church at 11. Was Jim Bakker Secretly Gay?

HOW TELEVANGELIST TAMMY FAYE MSNER BEME A GAY IN

Was Jim Bakker secretly gay? Jim Bakker has been a circle of numero ntroversi sce he stepped to televangelism, where beg secretly gay is one of them.

In particular, Fletcher and PTL director Jay Babck had alleged his sexualy about him beg homosexual and bisexual 1987. Further, there was no evince to verify him as gay those days.

Though the televangelist is remembered for all of those thgs and more (cludg her first hband, Jim Bakker, gettg nvicted for dg churchgoers out of more than $150 ln), what endur is the seemgly scere love she had for her gay fans. But was groundbreakg 1985, when she terviewed a gay man livg wh AIDS and showed him passn (amid some very personal qutns about her terviewee’s sex life). It was a parture om the norm to hear a person her posn – half of an evangelil Christian uple – support gay people, pecially as evangelism beme creasgly nservative.

‘THE EY OF TAMMY FAYE’: HOW A BIBLE THUMPER BEME A GAY ADVOTE AND IN

“I thk I have a lot mon wh the gay populatn bee they’ve been ma fun of and put down and misunrstood and have really had a rough row to hoe life, ” she told the South Florida Sun-Sentel 2002, ahead of a live show she performed for primarily gay dienc. In both films, Msner’s support for gay people and people diagnosed wh AIDS is amplified – and by dog so, both films attempt to reem her memory. When speakg to Pieters, who was reverg om chemotherapy, Msner started to tear up over his parents’ reactn when he me out as gay.

Pieters told CNN affiliate KABC he thought Msner was “pretty savvy” askg what she did, even though some of those qutns uld be nsired offensive today, sce her dience likely didn’t know many gay men or people wh AIDS. In a 2002 terview wh the LGBTQ outlet Metro Weekly, Msner said she was aware of the impact that episo would have wh gay viewers. “I was probably one of the first ever to have a gay man on my show, ” she said of the episo wh Pieters.

IS JIM BAKKER GAY? KNOW HIS EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIPS AND MORE

Followg Jim Bakker’s d nvictn and the uple’s divorce, Msner grew more vol about supportg gay people as a Christian, even when the evangelil Christian muny disapproved. She assisted gay advocy groups at chary events and beiend notable gay figur like RuPl and the filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, and the pair eventually directed the 2000 documentary about Msner’s life.