Career
He founded POZ magazine and POZ en Español, (for people impacted by Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), 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 north-east Pennsylvania). He is a long-term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome survivor and has been an outspoken advocate for the self-empowerment movement for people with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. In 2009 he was president of Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications" industry"s Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome response. From 2010 to 2012 he served on the board of directors of the Amsterdam-based Global Network of People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Gross National Product+) and co-chaired their North American regional affiliate.
He has been a leader in combating Human Immunodeficiency Virus-related criminalization and in 2010 launched the Positive Justice Project with the Center for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Law & Policy.
In 1990, he ran for the House of Representatives to represent New York"s 22nd congressional district (which in those days was centered on Rockland County). He was the first openly Human Immunodeficiency Virus+ candidate for federal office in the United States. and received 46% of the Democratic primary vote.
Strub produced an off-Broadway play, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Maine, written by and starring David Drake, in 1992. Strub is a pioneer expert in mass-marketed fundraising for LGBT equality.
He is a co-owner of the Hotel Fauchere (wwwhotelfaucherecom), a Relais & Châteaux boutique hotel in Milford, Pennsylvania, where he has been active in a community revitalization effort.
His memoir, Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 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. Strub was one of the first people on the scene of the murder of John Lennon in December 1980.
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 United States. advocating for LGBT equality.
In 1989 Strub asked popular artist Keith Haring to create a logo and poster to launch National Coming Out Day, now also a part of the Human Rights Campaign. Strub was one of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome activists who put a giant condom over then-United States Senator Jesse Helms"s suburban Washington home in 1991.
