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356 - UNLOCKED - Things Fell Apart: A Conversation with Jon Ronson

The Fifth Column

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The Eyes of Tammy Faber

You did an episode on Tammy Faber. Tell me a little bit about the genesis of that and why that was important to you to tell. The one aspect of Tammy's story that I just really wanted to get out there was this particular day in her life when she interviewed a gay pastor with AIDS called Steve Peters. Now, this was in the mid 80s when Jerry Forewell was convincing Ronald Reagan to not say the word AIDS. And it was because of Tammy Faye's peer group, but she was feeling isolated from her, from her own peer group and was identified. But what is also profoundly moving is that unbelievably, not only did Steve do so much to put, to bridge

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