The story of Pedro Zamora, the charming young activist who transformed the face of AIDS in America by allowing MTV's REA | dG1fNVNtTEE0RDlwNDQ
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00:00They don't even know who you are yet. You're already in People magazine. It's gonna be so huge
00:08How many people watched MTV who just loved Pedro because he was smart and cute what I have to
00:13Learn how to do is to learn how to live with AIDS. I had no idea what I was getting into
00:17Yes, they're gonna have conflict along the way
00:20But they're gonna grow Pedro allowed on scale a lot of Americans to sort of individuate
00:26Someone that they knew with HIV and they might not know anyone else nothing like this was on TV at all
00:32Ever just because I have AIDS doesn't mean that the rest of my life stops. Sometimes it's hard for people to understand what?
00:391994 was like part of the getting to know each other is also we're trying to figure this out
00:44There was also a sense of a ticking clock. It was an urgency. I don't think the rest of us
00:50Understood at that moment that it was groundbreaking
00:55You