Keeping Pedro Zamora’s fighting spirit alive on the 30th anniversary of his passing: “We owe it to him”

Pedro Zamora died 30 years ago today [November 11, 1994]. 

I’ve been thinking about this post for awhile, and I had hoped/assumed it would be a little more ‘celebratory.’ Despite losing him, I was assuming that we were entering a time of greater hope. But instead, we’re entering, or continue, to live in an era very much like the times when we lost Pedro. And I guess, maybe now more than ever, we should remember him. 

He was living in a time and living a life that [was]under a cloud of despair. At 17, he was diagnosed with HIV. AIDS in the 90’s with nearly no medical solutions to prolong your life, you lived under the cloud of a death sentence. And with that, Pedro, who wasn’t

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