Sean Strub has been an AIDS activist since the early 1980’s and is the founder of POZ Magazine (www.poz.com). He has written extensively on the AIDS epidemic, corporate social responsibility and the empowerment of people with life-threatening illnesses.

He was a primary fundraiser for ACT UP/New York’s extensive street theatre and activism in the late 1980’s and was the first openly HIV positive person to run for Congress (from New York’s 22nd Congressional District, in 1990). Strub produced the Obie award-winning play, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, Off-Broadway in 1992.

Strub has been arrested or detained multiple times for civil disobedience in New York and Washington, DC, where he was first arrested protesting Ronald Reagan’s AIDS policies outside the White House in 1987. He was one of seven AIDS activists who protested then-US Senator Jesse Helms by putting a giant condom over Helms’ two-story brick colonial home in suburban Washington in 1991.

He has received numerous awards and honors from AIDS community organizations including the 1995 AIDS Action Foundation’s National Leadership Award, the 1996 Cielo Latino Companero award from the Latino Commission on AIDS, the Los Angeles-based Being Alive’s Spirit of Hope award in 1997 and the Life Award from the National Association of People With AIDS in 1999.

He co-authored, with Steve Lydenberg and Alice Tepper Marlin, Rating America’s Corporate Conscience, (Addison-Wesley, 1987) and, with Dan Baker and Bill Henning, Cracking The Corporate Closet, (Harper Business, 1995).

Strub’s companies also launched POZ en Espanol, Mamm (for women impacted by breast cancer), Real Health (an African-American community health title) and Milford Magazine (a regional title distributed in the Delaware River Highlands area of northeast Pennsylvania).

A native Iowan, Strub lives in Milford, Pennsylvania and New York City.

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