# Sean Strub

Sean O'Brien Strub (born May 16, 1958) is a writer and activist who is the director of The Sero Project, a national network of people with HIV combating stigma and injustice, the mayor of Milford, Pennsylvania, and the owner of Milford's Hotel Fauchere, an historic European-style boutique hotel and restaurant. 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).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.