His dedication to spreading awareness and fighting the stigma went national when he was cast on MTV’s “The Real World.”įor the first time, many across the country saw someone living with AIDS and openly gay. Pedro committed himself to educate young people about safe sex, visiting schools across South Florida. “He always opened his arms to Pedro, loving him until the day he died with all the love a father can give.” “My father a very stern Cuban man but with an extraordinary ability to love,” Mily Zamora says. Pedro would try filling his void in school, becoming an honor student at Hialeah High School and in sexual relationships, unprotected.Īt age 17 a blood donation revealed he was HIV positive.