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This week, I saw a video from the wonderful Matt Baume who often does video content that examines interesting cultural moments in US LGBTQ history. He did video on Pedro Zamora[1], who had a lot of cultural impact as openly gay and openly HIV positive man back when he was on MTV’s The Real World.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Zamora
I had heard of Pedro before and knew a bit about his cultural influence because of his time on The Real World, but Baume does a wonderful job of going into Pedro’s life that I had not yet seen prior to then. Pedro was a truly inspirational person and a glorious human being, and like so many of my predecessors, he was another life lost to the AIDS epidemic.
If anyone wants to watch the Matt Baume video, I’ll link[2] it. It is over an hour long, so do with that information what you will.
2: https://youtu.be/o2Le9Bf_s3w?si=sPdBLJIuWXeLhgFq
Comment by fperrine at 14/02/2025 at 15:58 UTC
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Very interesting! Will definitely watch later. I wish more people would see things like this to understand why representation is actually an important thing in our media. Audiences see that another human being dealing with an illness is just that, and not Satanic sinner.