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gay CubanAmerican activist Pedro Zamora's appearances onscreen, in person, and in print, Pedro Zamora, Sexuality and AIDS Education reflects on the power of mediated autobiography and testifies to the ongoing importance of working together to combat HIV/AIDS and injustice.
Informed by the assessments ofs ands AIDs activism offered by Alex Juhasz, Jose Esteban Munoz, Simon Watney, Roger Hallas, Randy Shilts, Paul Monette, Marlon Riggs, and others, Pullen's study details how the goodlooking Zamora became a skilled educator who excelled at reaching out to youth, especially queer youth, and people of color.
Diagnosed as HIVpositive at the age of, Zamora learned how to be charismatically convincing, conjoining vulnerability, transparency, sincerity, warmth, and strength, His articulately 'out' role on MTV'sreality show, The Real World: San Francisco, was a highlight sadly, he died that same year, aged only, Kudos to Pullen for so eloquently marshaling Pedro Zamora's life, work, and love, for the present, toward the future, " Chris Holmlund, Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor of Cinema Studies, Women's Studies and
French, University of Tennessee and author of Impossible Bodies "Christopher Pullen gives Pedro Zamora's extraordinary life compelling form in this illuminating account.
He urges to rethink our notions of self and identity, Our lives depend on them, and this book makes clear how very true that is, " Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary More information on the book can be found at http/www, cambriapress. com/books/ . This book is in the Cambria Global Performing Arts Series headed by John M, Clum Duke University. .