Pedro Zamora

Pedro Zamora is the kind of figure I think about often, a young man who turned his own mortality into a public education. By living openly with HIV on national television in the early nineties, he did something braver than most celebrities ever attempt; he let strangers watch him be human, vulnerable, and dignified all at once. He died at twenty-two, which still feels like a theft. But the GLAAD award and, more importantly, the countless minds he changed remind me that influence isn't measured in years. He spent his short life dismantling fear, and that work outlived him entirely.

Name (English)

Pedro Zamora

Name (Japanese)

ペドロ・ザモーラ

Reading

ぺどろ・ざもーら

Born

February 29, 1972 – November 11, 1994

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

Origin

Diezmero, Havana Province, Cuba

Occupation

reality television participant / educator

High school

Hialeah High School

Awards & achievements

• 1995 GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Zamora
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3496409

Tags

• Havana Province
• reality television participant
• educator

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.