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Sean Strub
Born
Sean O'Brien Strub

(1958-05-16) May 16, 1958 (age 66)
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
NationalityU.S. citizen
Occupation(s)Writer, entrepreneur, activist and advocate, mayor
Known for
  • Pioneer expert in mass-marketed fundraising for LGBT equality
  • Long-term AIDS survivor
  • ACT UP New York activist
  • Founded POZ and other magazines
Websitehttps://seanstrub.com

Sean O'Brien Strub (born May 16, 1958) is an American writer, activist, politician and entrepreneur. He is a pioneer expert in mass-marketed fundraising for LGBT equality.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

In the early 1990s, 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, from 2000 to 2008, he published Milford Magazine (a regional title distributed in the Delaware River Highlands area of north-east Pennsylvania).[10]

In 1996, Sean Strub moved to Milford, Pennsylvania.[11][12] He was formerly the owner of the Hotel Fauchere, a historic European-style boutique hotel in Milford that was a member of Relais & Chateaux.[13][14] He is also the director of The Sero Project, a national network of people with HIV combating stigma and injustice.

From 2016 to 2024, Sean Strub was the mayor of Milford, Pennsylvania, originally elected by the borough council to complete previous mayor Bo Fean's term.[15][16] In collaboration with journalist Max Westerman, Strub released a documentary titled My Friend The Mayor centered around local politics in the US and his 2017 mayoral campaign.[17] He ran for re-election in 2021 and won by a significant margin.[11] On December 18th, 2024, Strub formally announced his resignation in a letter to the borough council.[18]

He is a long-term AIDS survivor [19] and has been an outspoken advocate for the self-empowerment movement for people with HIV/AIDS.[20] In 2009 he was president of Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications' industry's AIDS response.[21][22] 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 included Rockland County and parts of Orange, Westchester and Sullivan Counties). He was the first openly HIV+[10][23] 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 and, in 1992, produced an off-Broadway play, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, written by and starring David Drake.[24]

His memoir, Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS and Survival (Scribner) was published in January 2014. Strub co-authored Rating America's Corporate Conscience (Addison-Wesley, 1985), a guide to corporate social responsibility, with Steve Lydenberg and Alice Tepper Marlin and Cracking the Corporate Closet (HarperBusiness, 1995) with Daniel B. Baker and Bill Henning.

In 2014, Strub criticized National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Anthony Fauci for "delaying promotion of an AIDS treatment that would have prevented tens of thousands of deaths in the first years of the epidemic." and accused him of "rewriting history."[25]

He is an inaugural member of the WikiQueer Global Advisory Board.[26]

Miscellaneous

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Strub heard the shots that killed John Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980, and watched police remove the wounded Lennon from his Manhattan apartment building, the famed Dakota on W.72nd Street. He was interviewed by television news crews shortly afterward.

In 1981, Strub got playwright Tennessee Williams to sign the first fundraising letter for the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a then-newly formed political action committee which grew to become the largest organization in the U.S. advocating for LGBT equality.[27]

In 1989, Strub asked pop artist Keith Haring to create a logo and poster to launch National Coming Out Day, now also a part of the Human Rights Campaign.[28]

Strub was one of the AIDS activists who put a giant condom over then-US Senator Jesse Helms's suburban Washington home in 1991.[29]

References

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  1. ^ Endean, Steve (2006). Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into The Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress. Routledge. p. 241. ISBN 1-56023-526-8.
  2. ^ D'Emilio, John (2002). The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics and Culture. Duke University Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-8223-2930-5.
  3. ^ Vaid, Urvashi (1995). Virtual Equality. Simon&Schuster. p. 226. ISBN 0-385-47298-6.
  4. ^ Sherman, Phillip (1994). Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans. Fletcher Press. p. 257.
  5. ^ Levin, Sue (1998). In The Pink, The Making of Successful Gay and Lesbian-owned Businesses. Routledge. p. 96. ISBN 0-7890-0579-4.
  6. ^ Badgett, M.V. Lee (2003). Money, Myths and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men. University of Chicago Press. p. 114. ISBN 0-226-03401-1.
  7. ^ Bailey, Robert W. (1999). Gay Politics, Urban Politics: Identity and Economics in the Urban Setting. Columbia University Press. p. xii. ISBN 0-231-09663-1.
  8. ^ Gluckman, Amy (1997), Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life, Routledge, p. 12, ISBN 0-415-91379-9
  9. ^ Chasin, Alexandra (2001). Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 268. ISBN 0-312-23926-2.
  10. ^ a b Sean O. Strub, Bio, retrieved 2008-09-02
  11. ^ a b "Election results: Upset in Dingman, most other incumbents returned to office". Pike County Courier. 3 November 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  12. ^ Miriam Lewis Sabin (2023-06-24). "How the Denver Principles changed health care for everyone". The Lancet. 401 (10394): 2099–2100. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01293-X. PMID 37356436. S2CID 259226750.
  13. ^ "A Village Home for a Man About Town". The New York Times. October 21, 2008.
  14. ^ "A Tour of Milford, Pennsylvania". Travel+Leisure. March 2009.
  15. ^ "Sean Strub announces campaign for mayor". www.pikecountycourier.com. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
  16. ^ Strub, Sean. "My resignation as mayor". www.pikecountycourier.com. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
  17. ^ "Being a Gay, HIV-Positive Mayor of a Small Town: New Film Documents an Activist's Rise in the Trump Era". TheBody. 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
  18. ^ Compton, Melinda. "Mayor Strub resigns". www.pikecountycourier.com. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
  19. ^ "In a Changing Era, a Reminder of AIDS". The New York Times. October 11, 2009.
  20. ^ "What's Wrong With The AIDS Movement". DIRELAND. December 1, 2005.[permanent dead link‍]
  21. ^ "Rachel Maddow Introduces Sean Strub". Youtube.com. 2009-04-10. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  22. ^ "Fighting AIDS, Peer to Peer". The New York Times. May 11, 2009.
  23. ^ Sender, Katherine (2005). Business, not politics. Columbia University Press. p. 255. ISBN 0-231-12734-0.
  24. ^ "Theatre On Stage and Off". The New York Times. March 26, 1993.
  25. ^ Strub, Sean (2014-02-21). "Whitewashing AIDS History". HuffPost. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  26. ^ "WikiQueer:Global Advisory Board". WikiQueer. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
  27. ^ Clendinen, Dudley (2001). Out For Good. Simon&Schuster. p. 440. ISBN 0684867435.
  28. ^ Sears, James Thomas (2005). Youth, Education and Sexualities. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 583. ISBN 0-313-32748-3.
  29. ^ "Condomizing Jesse Helms". Huffington Post. July 17, 2008.
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