Judd Winick
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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...