AIDS activist Sean Sasser has died, several of his friends announced Wednesday night.
The activist and black, gay man whose face and spirit became a part of the MTV generation’s gay and AIDS awareness through his relationship with The Real World’s Pedro Zamora had been a prominent part of the San Francisco season of the MTV show, which aired in 1994. Zamora, who was HIV-positive, died shortly after the season ended.
Sasser moved to D.C. in recent years as a result of a job his current partner, Michael Kaplan, took running AIDS United, a nonprofit group aimed at “end[ing] the AIDS epidemic within the United States.” (keep reading)
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