Tammy Faye Bakker was a chirpy, perky televangelist noted for her lavish mascara and her barrel-stave eyelashes. She once conducted an interview on her PTL (Praise the Lord) chat show for which she remains revered among gays.
It was in 1985 and she was talking to Steve Pieters, a soft-spoken church pastor with a soup-strainer moustache.
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