and i hope you enjoy and learn from pedro s life of compassion and fearlessness. - you have to really credit the real world with sort of helping the acceptance of the lgbt community because there weren t many portrayals of gay people, period, you know, on television at that point. - her name is marla. i m seeing a woman. - in the 90s, gay characters were always secondary or third. there was never a gay character that was the lead of a show. - so you wanna go look at apartments tomorrow? - great idea! - okay. - ellen degeneres the comedian was about to come out as a lesbian. - look, murphy. - [laughs] - i m on the cover of time. - and she does it on time magazine. yep, i m gay. but they decide that the character that ellen plays on tv will also come out. - it is just reprehensible that abc
to documentary to get our what we called at that time a docusoap. - this is the true story. - true story. - of seven strangers. - it was kind of this social experiment to kind of watch what happens when you put these strangers together in a house. you know, when people stop being polite and start getting real. [beeper beeping] - do you sell drugs? why do you have a beeper? [laughter] - you hadn t seen anything like that on television. that kind of open, honest discussion of race. - i could try as much as i can to try to deal with you, but ignorance is ignorance, stupidity is stupidity, and that s it. black, white, green, purple, blue, whatever. - the real world becomes this kind of, you know, big-bang moment for reality tv, where the idea is that, oh, my god, all we have to do is just take cameras and put them on people and we ll get great stuff. you had, in the next season in l.a., a young woman who gets an abortion, and the camera literally goes right up to the doctor s door.
He gained fame on MTV’s “The Real World”: “Just remember, if there was a camera following you around at age 20 for six straight months, you would act like an idiot yourself.”
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