Sean Strub
| Sean Strub | |
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| Born |
Sean O'Brien Strub May 16, 1958 Iowa City, Iowa, United States |
| Nationality | U.S. citizen |
| Occupation | Writer, entrepreneur, activist and advocate |
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Sean O'Brien Strub (born May 16, 1958) is a writer and activist who is the director of The Sero Project (www.seroproject.com), a national network of people with HIV combating stigma and injustice. He founded POZ magazine and POZ en Español, (for people impacted by HIV/AIDS), Mamm (for women impacted by breast cancer), Real Health (an African American health magazine) and Milford Magazine (a regional title distributed in the Delaware River Highlands area of north-east Pennsylvania).
He is a long-term AIDS survivor and has been an outspoken advocate for the self-empowerment movement for people with HIV/AIDS. In 2009 he was president of Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications' industry's AIDS response. From 2010 to 2012 he served on the board of directors of the Amsterdam-based Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) and co-chaired their North American regional affiliate. He has been a leader in combating HIV-related criminalization and in 2010 launched the Positive Justice Project with the Center for HIV Law & Policy.
In 1990, he ran for the House of Representatives to represent New York's 22nd congressional district (which in those days was centered on Rockland County). He was the first openly HIV+ candidate for federal office in the U.S. and received 46% of the Democratic primary vote. He was a long-time member of ACT UP New York. Strub produced an off-Broadway play, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, written by and starring David Drake, in 1992.
Strub is a pioneer expert in mass-marketed fundraising for LGBT equality.
He is owner of the Hotel Fauchere (www.hotelfauchere.com), a Relais & Châteaux boutique hotel in Milford, Pennsylvania, where he has been active in a community revitalization effort.
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