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AIDS Advocate Interviewed By Tammy Faye Bakker Was 71 – Deadline

Rev. Dr. A. Stephen Pieters, the AIDS activist and longtime HIV survivor known informally and widely as Steve Pieters following his groundbreaking 1985 interview by televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, died July 8 in Los Angeles after a two-week hospitalization with an infection. He was 70. His death was announced by spokesperson Harlan Boll. The historic Bakker-Pieters interview, one of the…