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TITLE:
Pedro & me : friendship, loss, & what I learned / by Judd Winick.
Alternate Title:
Pedro and me
Publication Date:
2009, 2000
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt,
Physical Description:
187 p. : ill.
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.