Pedro & me : friendship, loss, & what I learned / by Judd Winick.

Pedro & me : friendship, loss, & what I learned / by Judd Winick.

Alternate Title
Pedro and me

By
Winick, Judd.

Publication Date
2009, 2000

Publication Information
New York : Henry Holt,

Physical Description
187 p. : ill.

Subject Term
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
 
AIDS activists.

Genre
Graphic non-fiction.

Summary
In this memoir in graphic novel form, the author relates his friendship with an HIV-positive AIDS activist while they were roommates during the filming of the MTV show "Real World: San Francisco". 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. Rather, he showed how those afflicted with the disease could live and love nobly with intelligence, humor, and great humanity.

Language
English

ISBN
9780805089646

General Note
Reissue with new foreword.


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall Number
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFicAdult Non-Fiction362.196979 W72