Rev. Steven Pieters, HIV survivor & activist, dies at 70
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qvoicenews.comThe Rev. Steven Pieters, a long-time HIV survivor and activist who became famous when interviewed by televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985, died Saturday of complications from gastrointestinal cancer.
He was 70. Pieters was hospitalized two weeks ago with an infection, his publicist B. Harlan Boll said. Pieters was a minister and administrator in the Metropolitan Community Church.
He was pastor of the MCC in Hartford, Conn., from 1979 to 1982, then moved to Los Angeles, where he eventually became field director for the denomination’s AIDS ministry.
There, he was diagnosed with AIDS and two forms of cancer, lymphoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma. In 1984 one doctor predicted he would not live to see the next year.
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