Pedro and Me
Subtitle: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: March 31, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780805089646
Subjects: Teens -- Health, Mind & Body; Teens -- Social Issues
Description: 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.