Tammy Faye Messner, Gay Icon

Slate ^ | July 23, 2007 | Michelle Tsai

[paudio]

I read the other day about her being a gay icon. I didn't understand why. After reading this, still don't. OTOH, kudos to Donna Summer!

[LaineyDee]

I watched a documentary on her last night. She would visit the Gay AIDS victims at facilities and minister to them.

[ClearCase_guy]

Personally, I think that's why it's happening. I think that making her an icon is a way to stick their finger in the eye of Christians.

Homosexuals are full of hate, and they show it in many odd ways.

[AppyPappy]

I didn’t know that. Did she visit her husband in prison?

[Talking_Mouse]

She knew, they all came to her book signings.

[martin_fierro]

How did Messner become a gay icon?
With fabulousness and honesty.

Oh.

[Tirian]

gawdy jewelry, and all

SPELL CHECK! gaudy, no?

[Past Your Eyes]

They probably stand in awe of her makeup inventory.

[dfwgator]

Gays seem to love to make icons out of train wrecks.

[Past Your Eyes]

[ChocChipCookie]

In her interview with Larry King, she said something to the effect that when she was down and out, it was “the gay people” who came to her and encouraged her. Or something like that. I still didn’t get it, even after that explanation.

[Greg F]

To my shame I saw Tammy Faye on the “Surreal Life” (guilty pleasure number 358 that I indulge in). She was surprisingly dignified and compelling. RIP.

[Badeye]

I have a long held, deep, abiding faith in God.

I have no faith at all in the institutions of man raised up in worship of God.

This woman is the personification of why I feel this way about any Church. One of many actually.....

[MEGoody]

Until she died, I never knew Tammy Faye was a ‘gay icon.’ Those nutty homosexuals!

[LaineyDee]

I know she visited him a few times at first. They barely mentioned it. Most of the show was about her struggle with cancer.

[Coldwater Creek]

BARF!

[badgerlandjim]

...and sincerity ...heh,heh,heh...

[Coldwater Creek]

Tammy Faye was spiritually false as her inch long eyelashes!

[MEGoody]

I’ll bet she’s spinning in her grave knowing she’s an icon for assbanditos

I read an article (here on FR I think) that a homosexual pastor who was a friend of her husband's performed the funeral service. My guess would be that Tammy Faye didn't have a problem with being a 'homosexual icon'.

I wonder what the Lord said to her about that when she saw Him.