Sean Strub

Sean O'Brien Strub (b. 1958) is the founder of several magazines and websites, including 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 northeast Pennsylvania).[1]

He is a long-term AIDS survivor and activist [2] and has been an outspoken advocate for the self-empowerment movement for people with HIV/AIDS. [3] In 2009 he was president of Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications' industry's AIDS response. [4] [5]

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+[6][1] 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. [7]

Strub was a pioneer expert in mass-marketed fundraising for LGBT equality. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

He is a co-owner of the Hotel Fauchere, a Relais & Chateaux boutique hotel in Milford, Pennsylvania,[17] where he has been active in a community revitalization effort.[18]

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.

Miscellaneous

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. [19] 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. [20] Strub was one of the AIDS activists who put a giant condom over then-US Senator Jesse Helms' suburban Washington home in 1991.[21]

References

  1. ^ a b Sean O. Strub, Bio, http://www.poz.com/staffbios.shtml#sean, retrieved 2008-09-02 
  2. ^ In a Changing Era, a Reminder of AIDS from the New York Times October 11, 2009
  3. ^ What's Wrong With The AIDS Movement from DIRELAND December 1, 2005
  4. ^ Rachel Maddow Introduces Sean Strub
  5. ^ Fighting AIDS, Peer to Peer from New York Times May 11, 2009
  6. ^ Sender, Katherine (2005), Business, not politics, Columbia University Press, p. 255, ISBN 0231127340 
  7. ^ Theatre On Stage and Off from New York Times March 26, 1993
  8. ^ Endean, Steve (2006), Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into The Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress, Routledge, p. 241, ISBN 1560235268 
  9. ^ D'Emilio, John (2002), The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics and Culture, Duke University Press, p. 193, ISBN 139780822329305 
  10. ^ Vaid, Urvashi (1995), Virtual Equality, Simon&Schuster, p. 226, ISBN 0385472986 
  11. ^ Sherman, Phillip (1994), Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans, Fletcher Press, p. 257 
  12. ^ Levin, Sue (1998), In The Pink, The Making of Successful Gay and Lesbian-owned Businesses, Routledge, p. 96, ISBN 0789005794 
  13. ^ Badgett, M.V. Lee (2003), Money, Myths and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men, University of Chicago Press, p. 114, ISBN 0226034011 
  14. ^ Bailey, Robert W. (1999), Gay Politics, Urban Politics: Identity and Economics in the Urban Setting, Columbia University Press, p. xii, ISBN 0231096631 
  15. ^ Gluckman, Amy (1997), Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life, Routledge, p. 12, ISBN 0415913799 
  16. ^ Chasin, Alexandra (2001), Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 268, ISBN 0312239262 
  17. ^ A Village Home for a Man About Town from the New York Times October 21, 2008
  18. ^ A Tour of Milford, Pennsylvania from Travel+Leisure March, 2009
  19. ^ Clendinen, Dudley (2001), Out For Good, Simon&Schuster, p. 440, ISBN 068481093 
  20. ^ Sears, James Thomas (2005), Youth, Education and Sexualities, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 583, ISBN 0313327483 
  21. ^ Condomizing Jesse Helms from Huffington PostJuly 17, 2008