AIDS activist referred to as 'America's friend, Pedro' who provided the media with an effeminate gay archetype that became the general stereotype after the AIDS crisis.
"Particularly 'America's friend, Pedro' gave the media a perfect archetypical martyr, a sensitive effeminate man who wants to be accepted by society for his life. To me, this is completely counter to the Dionysian Gay found in the Greek warrior or the leatherdaddy"