TAMMY FAYE: `MY GAY FANS ARE THE BEST!'

TAMMY FAYE: `MY GAY FANS ARE THE BEST!'

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Tammy Faye Bakker Messner is coming out of the closet about her past: she claims the gay community was nicer to her than the Christians during the infamous PTL scandal in the late '80s. The ex-minister's wife tells the "Advocate" that gays were the only ones who sent her Christmas presents when her then-hubby Jim Bakker was in prison for swindling his flock. Tammy Faye says her gay fans gave her beautiful monogrammed bathrobes as well as leopard-print hangers and shoe bags. The makeup laden icon says the nice group of gay men made 1989 her best Christmas and she still keeps in touch with many of them by mail.