The Real World: San Francisco's Pedro Zamora died 25 years ago today, shortly after the season finale

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The Cuban-born AIDS educator and activist broke ground as the first person openly living with HIV and AIDS to be featured on a regular TV series. Zamora died at age 22 on Nov. 11, 1994, five months after MTV wrapped filming. President Clinton honored Zamora, saying: "At a time when people are saying that young people don’t care, Pedro has proved them very wrong."