{"id":344,"date":"2010-12-06T09:57:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=344"},"modified":"2011-06-06T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T22:55:15","slug":"pedro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/pedro\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Find this DVD in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/318998007\"><em>Pedro.<\/em> Dir. Nick Oceano. With: Alex Loynaz and Justina Machado. New Almaden, CA: Wolfe Video, 2009. DVD. 93 min. $24.95.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-345\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"Pedro\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Pedro.jpg\" alt=\"Cover art for Pedro\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Based upon on the real life story of Pedro Zamora, this DVD builds on the popularity of <em>The Real World: San Francisco,<\/em> which aired on MTV over 15 years ago. Pedro was one of several housemates who are portrayed in this enactment of the behind and on-scene third season of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro, who immigrated to Miami from Cuba on the Mariel boatlift when he was a boy, was diagnosed with AIDS when he was 17. He became an HIV activist, whose goal was to educate the MTV generation about the epidemic and prevention. The DVD says, &#8220;In 1994, Pedro Zamora became the first openly gay, HIV positive man on television\u2026&#8221; and this lively film explores not only the man, but an inside view of reality television.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pedro<\/em> would be a good addition to a broad queer collection, especially if you have teens in your library.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nReviewed by, <strong>Morgan Gwenwald<\/strong><br \/>\nSUNY New Paltz<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro. Dir. Nick Oceano. With: Alex Loynaz and Justina Machado. New Almaden, CA: Wolfe Video, 2009. DVD. 93 min. $24.95. Based upon on the real life story of Pedro Zamora, this DVD builds on the popularity of The Real World: San Francisco, which aired on MTV over 15 years ago. Pedro was one of several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,35,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}