How can you resist listening to an interview of Tammy Faye Messner [Bakker] by Terry Gross?
I know life is short, but it ain't that short.
Terri: I'm wondering if you've met gay men who "do" you in their drag show?
Tammy Faye: Oh yes! Many of them! Oh yes! And they do me better than me! [laughs] I love it! I think it's so fun!
Terri: What have you learned about yourself from watching people in drag "do" you?
Tammy Faye: [pause] Ohhhh...nothing new! [laughs] Uh, y'know, mainly, how they dress, it's not what they say or what they do, it's mainly how they dress, and with the long eyelashes, and a lot of hair, and, uh, cute clothes, and lots of jewelry, y'know. [self-satisfied]
Terri: Do you think of yourself as dressing almost like a drag queen, where everything is a bit exaggerated?
Tammy Faye: [pause] Well, I don't think so. No. Uh-uh.
That last question was a world-historical moment.




