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	Pedro Zamora
		Pedro Zamora (February 29, 1972 - November 11, 1994) was born in Havana, Cuba.
		Pedro managed to bring awareness of the AIDS epidemic to a national audience.
		He was publicly praised by Bill Clinton for his efforts in educating high school students.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Pedro_Zamora.html (67 words)

	Welcome to myfoodcount.com - Measure your Health - Famous AIDS / HIV Disease Infected Person - Pedro Zamora
		Pedro Zamora (February 29, 1972-November 11, 1994) was an openly gay, Cuban-American, HIV-positive AIDS educator who became famous for his stint on MTV-s Real World San Francisco, which then-President Bill Clinton credited with personalizing and humanizing those with the disease.
		Pedro was honored, covered in cologne and white flowers, with only men permitted to cut his hair, women kneeling in his presence, and he was allowed to attend religious ceremonies meant only for adults.
		Zamora decided to redouble his efforts to graduate from high school before he died, though he did not give much thought to his health, as he was still in denial.
	www.myfoodcount.com /healthylife/famous/hivdisease/pedrozomara.html (2559 words)

	Aids Action - Zamora Fellowship
		In 1989, Pedro Zamora was diagnosed as HIV positive at the age of 17.
		Pedro’s appearance on the program offered viewers an opportunity to see a person living with HIV, who engaged and invested himself in all the experiences that life offered.
		During his life, Pedro was not only an educator, he was also a role model for many people—HIV positive and negative alike.
	www.aidsaction.org /pedro.htm (267 words)

	The Daily Princetonian - MTV's 'Real World' cartoonist immortalizes friend Pedro Zamora
		Pedro, very possibly, was the realest of all and a shock was sent through the nation when he died a few short months after moving out of the house on Lumbar Street.
		Pedro had spread his message across the country prior to his experience on "The Real World," but, as a result of the show, he reached scores more people than he would otherwise have been able to in the limited time he was given for his short life.
		It was through Zamora that Winick "truly found [his] way as a storyteller." So he sat down, pen in hand, and wrote about his friend and, combining truth, humor and a message, he hopes he has done justice to the life of Pedro Zamora.
	www.dailyprincetonian.com /archives/2002/03/07/arts/4584.shtml (1346 words)

	Pedro Zamora Photos - Pedro Zamora News - Pedro Zamora Information
		Pedro was hospitalized and unable to speak for almost a month, and he stated that he did not want to be kept alive by machine.
		Pedro's former housemate and best friend, Judd Winick announced to the press that MTV had begun a trust in order to pay for his medical costs, because he had no medical insurance.
		Pedro slowly lost his ability to speak, and was flown to Miami to be with his family.
	www.tv.com /pedro-zamora/person/60591/summary.html (381 words)

	iComics.com
		Pedro and Me is full of anecdotes about their lives, the little details suddenly turning them from people on a page (or on your television screen) into your good friend at work, or that person you hang out with down the street.
		When he and Pedro are discussing gargling blood (don't ask, you'll have to read it on your own), the dialogue wouldn't be half as realistic without their faces matching it.
		Pedro and Me is available from Mars Import and Amazon.com; many of Winick's comics are also available from Mars Import as well.
	www.icomics.com /rev_090100_pedro.shtml (580 words)

	Popular vendor mourned \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		SAN YSIDRO – Police are continuing to investigate the death of Pedro Zamora, a well-known San Ysidro trolley station coffee vendor whose badly burned body was found earlier this month in his City Heights bungalow.
		Zamora's customers, friends and family say they were shocked and saddened to hear of his death.
		Zamora was found dead in his home earlier this month.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040623/news_1m23pedro.html (870 words)

	Pedro and Me: Press
		Zamora was a child of the 1980 Cuban boatlift.
		Winick, who was Zamora's roommate and is a cartoonist with DC Comics, has penned an illustrated return to his MTV experience called Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned (Henry Holt and Co., $15).
		Over the six months with Zamora, the cast and crew learned to live with a person dying from AIDS at a time before life-prolonging drug cocktails were available.
	www.frumpy.com /pedroandme/press/usatoday09182000.html (577 words)

	Pedro and Me: Press
		Zamora’s lover, Sean Sasser, whose romance with the young activist was chronicled on The Real World and who since has served as an infrequent adviser to the foundation, says Quintana was able to run the foundation without oversight because Zamora’s family and Winick and Ling don’t live in the Los Angeles area.
		The first, they say, was the Concert to Benefit the Pedro Zamora Foundation, which was to be held at Los Angeles’s Great Western Forum and was to feature acts such as Jewel, Joan Osborne, Soul Asylum, the Presidents of the United States of America, and Extra Fancy.
		So now the Pedro Zamora Foundation is in the difficult position of having two boards of directors, each of which denies the legitimacy of the other.
	www.frumpy.com /pedroandme/press/advocate07071998.html (3525 words)

	GLAAD: AIDS @ 25 - HIV & AIDS Media Resource Guide
		Zamora's spotlight hardly diminished as the season continued, especially when the camera would follow him and his partner Sean Sasser on their romantic meetings -- a revolutionary and trailblazing move that depicted an HIV -- positive man and a man with AIDS as a couple.
		Additionally, Zamora actively worked as an HIV and AIDS educator breaking established stereotypes that living with AIDS is solely a death sentence.
		Zamora and Sasser helped usher in a new era of living openly with AIDS instead of in the shadows.(1) Following Zamora's death, Sasser continued to lobby Congress for much-needed AIDS research money and lecture on living with and preventing HIV.
	www.glaad.org /media/AIDS/timeline/zamora.php (429 words)

	BY HORACIO SIERRA
		The fl and white contrast of the drawings add to the emotional intensity of such anxiety-filled scenes were Pedro publicly announces to his high school that he is HIV positive to his final agonizing days in the hospital.
		Pedro did not join the usually navel-gazing cast of The Real World for his own personal benefit, but for that of the nation.
		Judd contemplates sharing a room with an HIV-positive roommate, Pedro gushes over his interracial relationship with Sean, Judd falls in love with cast-mate Pam Ling, Pedro is seen giving one of his provacativley honest lectures, and President Bill Clinton calls a sickly Pedro and his beaming-with-pride friends.
	web.nwe.ufl.edu /~hsierra/Pedro.htm (507 words)

	Do Ask, Do Tell (View) Joshua Gamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At the end of his 22 years, when Pedro Zamora lost his capacity to speak, all sorts of people stepped into the silence created by the AIDS-related brain disease that shut him up.
		MTV offered the marathon as a tribute to Zamora, which it was, and as a way to raise funds, especially crucial since Zamora, like so many people with HIV, did not have private insurance.
		When Pedro had his own voice, he had spoken powerfully of how anti-gay ideology and policy, typically framed as "pro-family," contributed to teen suicides and the spread of HIV; when he died, those who spoke for him emphasized individual heroism and the triumph of the heterosexual family.
	www.utne.com /pub/1996_73/view/898-1.html (614 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Pedro had his own voice, he had spoken powerfully of how antigay ideology and policy, typically framed as "pro-family," contributed to teen suicides and the spread of HIV; in death, those speaking for him emphasized individual heroism and the triumph of the heterosexual family.
		Zamora's trick, until his voice was taken, was to walk the line between talking and being dubbed.
		Like Pedro Zamora, one can keep one's voice for a little while, one finger on the commercial megaphone, until others inevitably step in to claim it for their own purposes.
	www.prospect.org /print-friendly/print/V6/23/gamson-j.html (3018 words)

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		That caveat saves his essay, "Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self", from blatant hypocrisy, but does hint at the incongruities of analyzing Pedro's ethnicity without doing so, and perhaps starting with, Judd's as well.
		But, the balance between him and Pedro as minorities begins early in the book, as "Winick smartly contrasts his own childhood with Zamora's in the early chapters, then brings them both together in their MTV house" (Behrens 34).
		But Judd, at least as he is portrayed in the story, does not seem to fear this transgression, whether it is a line between his heterosexuality and Pedro's homosexuality or his whiteness and Pedro's race.
	www.captionbox.net /pedro/judd.html (1381 words)

	About Health - AIDS: Pedro faces illness
		When Pedro was eight, his family moved from Cuba to the United States.
		At first, Pedro was too ashamed to tell his father.
		MTV asked Pedro to be a member of the cast of The Real World.
	www.abouthealth.com /t_topicX.htm?topic=32 (401 words)

	Pedro Zamora June 1994: MTV's The Real World introduces Pedro Zamora, a young gay man with aids and a boyfriend - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Just as Ryan White won the hearts of America as the youthful face of AIDS in the 1980s, Zamora was embraced by a new generation--and this time the poster boy was openly gay and sexually active.
		They were a team on camera and off, keeping the focus on the AIDS cause: educating Pedro's housemates, speaking to young people across the country, testifying before Congress.
		Zamora's determination to make a difference played out in a real-time fugue, the Pedro on the MTV show fighting for visibility at the same time the post-Real World Pedro was fighting for his life back home in Miami.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2002_Nov_12/ai_94598284 (317 words)

	Intuitive Roots: Pedro and Me Archives
		As a speaker and educator, a guest on many talk shows (including Oprah), and when his tragic death received front-page coverage in the press, Pedro taught a generation that AIDS was not a punishment for moral defects or a mere killer that reduced humans to wraiths.
		Instead, Pedro hinted by talking about clothes, etc. Pedro found Judd and Pam to be those people that he could open up to and tell his secrets.
		Pedro and Me is a poignant literary novel about a young man faced with AIDS.
	blog.lib.umn.edu /mwright2/iroots/cat_pedro_and_me.html (557 words)

	Exclusive : Does Your Child Know About AIDS?
		Zamora was diagnosed with the deadly virus at 17, and spent the final 5 years of his life as a national AIDS activist, including a 6-month stint as a cast member on MTV's reality show, The Real World.
		Zamora says he would have benefited from lessons about self-esteem, knowing how to use a condom, and how to communicate and negotiate with his sexual partners.
		Zamora died at age 22 shortly after the last episode aired in November 1994, and many young adults who never saw the show are interested in learning about his life, Winick says.
	www.rwjobgyn.com /atoz/healthupdate/alert09282000.asp (967 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser \| Island Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Viewers shared Zamora’s slow suffering, his joy during the commitment ceremony to his partner, and the news of his death mere hours after the season finale aired.
		Winick, who was Zamora’s roommate and is a cartoonist with DC Comics, has penned an illustrated return to his MTV experience called "Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned" (Henry Holt, $15).
		With its teen-friendly format as a comic book, "Pedro and Me" may play an enlightening role in lectures Winick is giving to high schoolers about AIDs and sex.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Sep/19/919islandlife13.html (281 words)

	Cleveland Public Library - YRead? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Cartoonist Judd Winick writes and illustrates his experiences living in a house with seven strangers; picked to have their lives taped for MTV's reality based TV series, the Real World San Francisco.
		One of those seven strangers has the HIV-AIDS virus-- his name is Perdro Zamora, and life will never be the same for Winick, his fellow cast mates and the rest of the world who religiously watched the Real World San Francisco in 1994.
		Written in a comic book style format, Winick describes in detail the ups and downs of his friendship with Zamora and what it was like having viewers watch his every move.
	www.yread.org /readup.asp?id=16 (205 words)

	Pedro And Me Review - Silver Bullet Comics
		Pedro and Me does indeed deserve all the praise that is being thrown at it.
		Pedro Zamora is a most special person, an HIV positive AIDS educator who fights his fears to tell the world about the disease that is consuming him.
		Pedro and Me is not about the TV show; what it is about, however, is something of relevance to us all.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/96801658723739.htm (435 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Two people, one with AIDS, are chosen to live in a house together where they become friends and soon after, the one with AIDS dies.
		Pedro and Me is a story about two men, Judd Winick and Pedro Zamora.
		After Pedro passes on it shows what Judd and some of the other cast members of The Real World went on to do.
	www.danville.k12.in.us /hs/lmc/reviews/pedro.htm (222 words)

	Books
		It was the book gay men in their 20s and 30s bought for their friends and families who just didn't understand.
		Pedro and Me is every bit as important a book, for a new generation of people, still often in their 20s and 30s, with AIDS in their lives.
		Winick and Pedro Zamora, the young AIDS activist and educator who died in 1994, were thrown together as accidental housemates in MTV's San Francisco season of The Real World, and this graphic memoir is the account of the friendship that ensued.
	www.planetout.com /entertainment/books/reviews/pedroandme.html (206 words)

	BookBag@theLogBook.com: Pedro and Me
		His roommate, Pedro Zamora, is an AIDS educator dying of the disease.
		He combines the two "careers," as it were, in Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned, the story of his friendship with fellow castmates Pedro Zamora and Pam Ling.
		Since Pedro died of AIDS shortly after the San Francisco season of the show finished production, this had the potential to fall into the trap of being A Very Special Comic, but it doesn't.
	www.thelogbook.com /read/q2-01/pedro.htm (452 words)

	The Comics Get Serious--Review of Pedro and Me
		Pedro and Me is Judd Winick's tribute to his extraordinary friend Pedro Zamora, as well as his own story of personal growth.
		Pedro was a young, gay, HIV-positive Cuban American who spent his time educating people about the disease.
		He also focuses mostly on himself, Pedro, and Pam, with a few mentions of Cory and almost nothing on the other participants, which might be disappointing to fans of those people.
	www.rationalmagic.com /Comics/PedroAndMe.html (643 words)

	Television Without Pity » The Real World » Real World Reunion
		The final clip is a speech Pedro gave about believing that his life had a purpose and that he's a person living with AIDS, not dying.
		Judd says that Pedro raised awareness, so Judd has spent the past year lecturing and he encourages others to get out there and do something so they can be as pompous as him.
		I mean, Pedro was really brave, and he was a good person, but Judd acts like just because he knew Pedro, that makes him a saint or something.
	www.televisionwithoutpity.com /articles/content/a1804/index-11.html (699 words)

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