President Bill Clinton credited Zamora with personalizing and humanizing those living with HIV—especially to Latino communities—with his activism, including his testimony before Congress.Zamora's personal struggle with AIDS, and his conflict with housemate David "Puck" Rainey is credited with helping to make "The Real World" a hit show, for which "Time" ranked it #7 on its list of "32 Epic Moments in Reality-TV History".