Sean Strub

Who is Sean Strub?

Sean O'Brien Strub is a writer and activist who is the director of The Sero Project, a national network of people with HIV combating stigma and injustice. He founded POZ magazine and POZ en Español, Mamm, Real Health and Milford Magazine.

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 and was co-chair of 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 U.S. House of Representatives to represent New York's 22nd congressional district. 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.