While Danny stated he valued that Homecoming “genuinely focused on my mental health journey,” he argued it not just did an injustice to his own story, however likewise those that came prior to him.
“What I desire heard more than anything is that this was a failure to honor their own previous work and Pedro Zamora,” Danny stated, “which was so important and forgotten.”
Pedro appeared on The Real World: San Francisco in 1994 and turned into one of the very first freely gay guys coping with HIV to be seen on tv. Zamora passed away of an AIDS-related disease on November 11, 1994 at the age of 22, simply hours after the Real World: San Francisco ending aired.
In a declaration to the Los Angeles Times, Bunim/Murray Productions– the production business accountable for The Real World— reacted to Danny’s claims that the HIV story was cut, stating it “has never shied away from sharing stories around HIV and AIDS” considering that the franchise premiered in 1992.
“The Homecoming series eventually concentrated on Danny’s psychological health journey,” a Bunim/Murray declaration stated, “which he shared publicly with all his former roommates for the first time.”
